FM Technical Profile: WYTK

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Station Name:

The Score

Frequency:

93.9

Format:

Sports Talk

Transmitter Location:

[map] About halfway between the Springfield community and US-72, on the west side of AL-101.

Power (ERP):

12.5 kW

Antenna:

Omnidirectional

Antenna HAAT:

472 feet

Other Information:

60 dBu protected contour map, from the FCC.
:
PS-TheScore
Time-[?]
Text-[?]
PTY-Talk
PI-WYTK-FM

More Information:

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[Image] RDS decoded on an AT&T Insite phone in Florence, showing the PS (station name) and PTY (format) fields, May 2019.
[Studio] Street View imagery of the station's studios on Cedar Street in Florence.
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Owner:

Valley Broadcasting Inc.

History:

This station dates back to an original construction permit issued to Country Boy Broadcasting, Inc. in May 1991, for a 3 kW Class A station licensed to Rogersville.  The transmitter site was originally much closer to the Tennessee state line, but after several modifications, it signed on in 1994 from a site closer to Florence.  The Broadcasting Yearbook lists the initial format as Classic Rock, with the WFIX call sign.  Shoals Broadcasting acquired the station in 1997 for $400,000.  They flipped the station to a commercial Contemporary Christian music format.

Around May 2000, the station took over the operations of WBHL on 91.3 MHz, a noncommercial station doing Beautiful Music and Oldies.  The Contemporary Christian music and WFIX calls migrated there, and this station flipped to Sports Talk as WYTK "The Score".  The station was acquired by Valley Broadcasting in September 2002 for $900,000.