WQKX (94.1
FM, "94KX") is a commercial
FM radio station licensed to serve
Sunbury, Pennsylvania
Sunbury is a city and county seat of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in Central Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Valley on the east bank of the Susquehanna River, just downstream of the confluence of its main and west ...
. The station is owned by Sunbury Broadcasting Corporation and broadcasts a
Top 40
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format. Its broadcast tower is located near
Trevorton.
History
The
Federal Communications Commission
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granted Sunbury Broadcasting Corporation a construction permit for the station on September 14, 1945 with the WKOK-FM call sign. Originally assigned to 100.3 MHz, the FCC reassigned the station to 99.3 MHz on November 11, 1945 followed by another reassignment to 94.1 MHz on June 27, 1947.
The station signed on for the first time in 1948.
The FCC granted the station its first license on February 17, 1949.
Until 1975, the station simulcast the programming of
WKOK (AM).
In 1978, the call sign was changed to WQKX.
Signal Note
WQKX is short-spaced to
WIP-FM
WIP-FM (94.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc. and broadcasts a sports radio format. The WIP-FM offices and studios are co-located within Audacy's corporate hea ...
''Sports Radio 94 WIP'' (licensed to serve
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...
) as they both operate on the same channel and the distance between the stations' transmitters is as determined by FCC rules. The minimum distance between two
Class B stations operating on the same channel according to current
FCC
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rules is .
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Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States