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WOKY (920 AM, "The Big 920") is a commercial
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in
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, United States. It is owned and operated by
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and broadcasts a
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format affiliated with
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. Its studios and offices, which became the home of all iHeart Milwaukee stations in 2000 after a building expansion, are located on West Howard Avenue in suburban Greenfield; the
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site is behind the studios. WOKY broadcasts in
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.


History

The history of WOKY can be traced back to WEXT, a 1,000-watt
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radio station at 1430
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s in Milwaukee. It was founded by what would become the
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: Lee, David, Gerald, and Rosa Bartell (later Evans) which began operations on August 31, 1947. WEXT, the Milwaukee market's fifth radio station, did fairly well with a broadcast schedule that included popular music and ethnic programming, including a
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show hosted by local radio legend John Reddy. Gerald Bartell and Rosa Bartell met Ralph Evans II while the three worked at the student radio station of the
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. Gerald and Rosa worked on programming and Evans was an electrical engineering student. In the wake of WEXT's success, the Bartell family applied for full-time broadcast operations, and the result was a move down the dial to AM 920 on September 1950 and a new
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, WOKY. (The 1430 frequency was reassigned in 1951 to WBEV in
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, 50 miles northwest of Milwaukee.) WOKY initially aired a full-service variety format similar to WEXT's, including popular music shows and programs oriented toward housewives and children. In time, pop music became the primary component of WOKY's schedule, with
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s choosing the songs they played based on the ''
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'' and ''
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'' best-seller charts and on local record sales. WOKY soon became Milwaukee's second
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music station after WRIT (now
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). WOKY served as the city's premier Top 40 station during most of the 1960s and 1970s, and was known for much of that time as the "Mighty 92." Along with
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Top 40 giants WLS and WCFL, the Mighty 92 was also a favorite of teenagers in Western
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who picked up the signal from across
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. Popular disc jockeys on WOKY during the Top 40 years, from the 1950s through the 1970s, included Bob White, "Mad Man" Michaels, "Lucky" Logan, Mitch Michael, Sam Hale, Ron Riley (later with WLS Chicago), Bob Barry, Carl Como, Paul Christy, Michael Lee Scott, Jim Brown, Pat McKay, Jack McCoy, Ronnie Knight, Johnny Dark, Craig Roberts, Jack Lee, Robb Edwards, Gary Price, Gene Johnson, Jon "Rock 'n Roll" Anthony, Big Ron O'Brien, Barney Pip (later with WCFL Chicago) and Bob Collins (later with Chicago's full-service giant WGN). A popular station catchphrase during the early 1970s was "WOKY Plays Favorites". WOKY is also noteworthy for being the first station in Milwaukee to broadcast traffic reports from a helicopter, courtesy of air personality Art Zander and his feature "The Safer Route". As FM stations became the choice for radio listeners looking for contemporary music, WOKY shifted to an adult standards format in 1981. It became a full-time affiliate of
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format, based in
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. To keep up with demographic trends, WOKY tweaked the format over the years, gradually shifting to a middle of the road-
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hybrid that mixed 1950s–1970s pop hits with classic and current
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music, with artists such as
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,
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and
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being mainstays of the format. Starting in 2005, WOKY began programming oldies all day on Fridays, complete with the station's old jingles and other elements. For many years, WOKY was a success in the ratings, though many of its listeners were older than the demographics that many advertisers actively seek. Starting in 1993, the station was known for pioneering marathons of
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beginning on
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and continuing through the holiday season. WOKY was briefly the Milwaukee outlet for ''
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'' in a
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move after
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WLTQ (now
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) converted to a
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format (Delilah was later heard in Milwaukee on
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). WOKY also carried
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basketball game broadcasts from 2003 to 2007 when the team moved to WISN. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee women's basketball games can be heard on WOKY. In 1997, WOKY and co-owned
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were bought for $40 million by
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, the forerunner of iHeartMedia. On January 2, 2007, after concluding its Christmas holiday programming, WOKY came back with a new approach: an
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format emphasizing hit songs from the 1960s and 1970s. The "Mighty 92" name returned full-time, as did many of the classic
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s the station played in its Top 40 heyday. On nights and weekends, the station used
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's satellite-delivered "Oldies Channel" (now
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from
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). With the new format, WOKY did not flip to all-Christmas music in 2007. Instead, like sister station
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, WOKY played a few Christmas tunes every hour. Today, the former Mighty 92 format can be heard in Milwaukee on
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95.7-HD2. On September 18, 2008, after playing "
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" by
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, the station changed to
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as "The Wolf." The format was already being heard on sister station 106.1 WMIL-FM's
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subchannel. The subchannel version had been
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but when it debuted on AM 920, it featured several of WOKY's airstaff. The Wolf was sub-branded as ''MIL-WOKY, Milwaukee's Country Connection.'' On December 1, 2011, the station announced it would become the Milwaukee home of
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radio coverage from all three NASCAR radio networks and the
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for the
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and
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. NASCAR moved to WOKY from
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outlet
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, which days before announced the removal of all auto racing programming to focus on solely on traditional sports. In September 2012, WOKY also added nationally broadcast college football and NFL from the Westwood One Network, including "The
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." On January 2, 2013, Clear Channel Milwaukee announced that WOKY would drop its classic country format and adopt a
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format on January 7. (In reality the branding launched on January 5 during the station's broadcasts of Wild Card Weekend games from Dial Global.) Branded as "The Big 920," the new WOKY schedule became a near-
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of its
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sister station,
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("The Big 1070"), featuring Wisconsin-based local sports shows hosted by Brian Posick, Mike Heller,
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and Mike Lucas. Also heard were national shows featuring ''
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'', ''
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'', and
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, along with live event broadcasts that have been airing previously on WOKY, notably football,
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, and the
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. The move made WOKY the third English-language all-sports station in the Milwaukee market, joining
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,
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, along with news/talk-formatted WTMJ's commitment to evening sports talk and play by play coverage of
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and
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. On December 2, 2013, Learfield Sports and the University of Wisconsin–Madison announced that WOKY would become the Milwaukee station for
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broadcasts, replacing longtime affiliate WTMJ, effectively making the team exclusive to iHeartMedia in the two largest cities in Wisconsin, with iHeart's WIBA-AM- FM in Madison acting as the flagship stations of the Badgers. As part of the deal, WOKY will air all Badgers sports broadcasts. Football and men's basketball are simulcast with sister station
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due to WOKY's weak nighttime signal. On November 27, 2018,
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flipped from CHR to sports talk as ''97.3 The Game'', and WOKY's local programming was moved to the station. WOKY will now serve as a pass-through for Fox Sports Radio's daily lineup. In 2018, The station and
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“My 24” acquired the broadcasting rights to
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hockey, taking them away from sports talk rival
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(then known as “105.7 The Fan”).


See also

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Bartell Group The Bartell Group, later known as Bartell Broadcasters, Bartell Family Radio, Macfadden-Bartell, and the Bartell Media Corporation, was a family-owned company that owned a number of radio stations in the United States during the 1940s through the 1 ...


References


External links

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Bartell family biography with mentions of the radio stations the family owned, including WOKY
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