WLKD (1570 AM) is a

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, United States. The station is owned by

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through Raven License Sub, LLC.

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is a Mexican

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frequency, on which XERF-AM in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila is the dominant Class A station.

History

WLKD went on the air on August 1, 1978 as WFBZ, playing

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music. The station for only a short period of time became a simulcast of the

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format of its FM sister 95.9 WWMH (now WMQA-FM) before discontinuing its simulcast in 1979 when WWMH flipped its format to MOR. At the same time, WFBZ flipped to

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for the next two-and-a-half years. Both WFBZ and WWMH had a couple of changes throughout the early 1980s. WFBZ dropped the beautiful music format in 1981 and flipped to MOR, WWMH dropped MOR for Top 40 in 1982, and then WFBZ flipped from MOR to

adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...

the following year in 1983. On April 1, 1985, WFBZ changed its calls to WMYM (We Make Your Memories) and flipped to an Adult Standards format programmed separately from the FM. At the same time, WFBZ's former adult contemporary format went over to WWMH.
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On February 1, 1992, the station changed its call sign to WMQA and returned to simulcasting with its FM sister station, which concurrently became WMQA-FM; with the FM station's adult contemporary music format. The FM station has been running its adult contemporary format since 1985. On March 19, 1999, the calls changed to the current WLKD and 1570 AM adopted an adult standards format for the third time in its history, this time featuring programming from the

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network. (The AC format continued on WMQA-FM until late August 2008 when that station changed its format to

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.) WLKD dropped Music of Your Life in favor of ESPN Radio programming in the fall of 2004 and entered into a simulcast with ESPN station

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in Rhinelander. In January 2009, WLKD dropped ESPN Radio and switched back to the Music of Your Life format. Its former simulcast partner, WOBT, is now airing Classic Country. On February 29, 2012, WLKD changed its format to news/talk. On January 22, 2014, WLKD changed its format to soft oldies, branded as "The Lake".

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