WAKH

Coordinates: 31°16′50.00″N 90°27′5.00″W / 31.2805556°N 90.4513889°W

WAKH

City of license	McComb, Mississippi
Branding	K106
Slogan	Southwest Mississippi's Big Country
Frequency	105.7 MHz
Format	Country music
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	149 meters (489 ft)
Class	C1
Facility ID	58935
Transmitter coordinates	31°16′50.00″N 90°27′5.00″W / 31.2805556°N 90.4513889°W
Former callsigns	WIXO-FM (1979-1979) WIXO (1979-1981)
Affiliations	Citadel Media
Owner	Charles W. Dowdy

WAKH (105.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Country music format. Licensed to McComb, Mississippi, USA. The station features programming from Citadel Media.^[1] The station is owned and operated by Charles W. Dowdy, debtor-in-possession, following the September 2011 bankruptcy filing by Southwest Broadcasting, Inc.

History

The station was assigned call sign WIXO-FM on February 15, 1979. On May 4, 1979, the station changed its call sign to WIXO then again on September 8, 1981, to the current WAKH.,^[2]

On September 21, 2011, Charles W. Dowdy, acting as the sole owner of license holder Southwest Broadcasting, Inc., dissolved the corporation and assigned the broadcast licenses it held (WAKH plus sister stations WAKK, WAPF, WAZA, WFCG, WJSH, WKJN, and WTGG) to himself acting as debtor in possession before initiating a Chapter 11 bankruptcy.^[3] The FCC approved the license transfer on December 19, 2011.^[4]

References

1. "WAKH Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
2. "WAKH Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
3. "FCC Form 316, Section III, Item 5: Description of the Transaction". Federal Communications Commission. November 2011. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
4. "Application Search Details ( BALH-20111129GBX)". FCC Media Bureau. December 19, 2011. Retrieved November 15, 2012.

External links

• Query the FCC's FM station database for WAKH
• Radio-Locator information on WAKH
• Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WAKH