WBKV

WBKV

City	West Bend, Wisconsin
Broadcast area	Washington and Ozaukee Counties
Branding	Kool Variety 1470
Frequency	1470 kHz
First air date	November 1950
Format	Classic Hits
Power	2,500 watts
Class	B
Facility ID	71541
Transmitter coordinates	43°22′14.00″N 88°9′58.00″W / 43.3705556°N 88.1661111°W / 43.3705556; -88.1661111
Callsign meaning	West Bend Kettle Valley"
Affiliations	Westwood One
Owner	David Magnum (Magnum Communications, Inc.)
Sister stations	WMBZ
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	www.wbkv.com

WBKV (1470 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. Licensed to West Bend, Wisconsin, USA, the station's coverage area consists of Milwaukee's northern suburbs. The station is currently owned by David Magnum, through licensee Magnum Communications, Inc., and features hourly news updates from Westwood One. Its studios and transmitter are in West Bend.

History

Prior to 1983, WBKV was a 1000 watt daytime-only station. The station aired a local, full service format featuring local talk as well as lifestyle programming and some syndicated talk shows and music programming – 70s and big band music until around 2001. At that time, it flipped to a satellite driven classic country format to compliment sister WBWI-FM. The local morning show was retained, other shows were cancelled. Most of the dayparts during the classic country period were covered by Jones Radio Network's classic country feed. There were voicetracked breaks from local staff in afternoon drive during the week for a few years. The station flipped to News/Talk around March 15, 2013^[1] and is branded as "LOCAL" news/talk. The station has a history of covering local high school sports – football, basketball, and baseball. It was an affiliate of the Wisconsin Badgers radio network prior to the flip to classic country.

On June 25, 2014, Bliss Communications announced that it would sell WBKV and WBWI-FM, along with sister stations WRJN and WEZY in Racine, to David Magnum's Magnum Communications, Inc. Bliss had owned WBKV and WBWI since 1970.^[2] The sale, at a price of $2.25 million, was consummated on October 31, 2014.

On February 7, 2015 changed their format to classic hits, branded as "Kool Variety 1470".

References

↑ "Format Changes". Your Midwest Media.
↑ "Bliss Communications to sell West Bend, Racine radio stations". The Janesville Gazette. June 25, 2014. Retrieved June 26, 2014.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WBKV

Radio-Locator Information on WBKV

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WBKV

Radio stations in the Milwaukee–Racine, Wisconsin market

by AM frequency	540 620 860 920 940 1050 1130 1250 1290 1340 1400 1460 1470 1500 1510 1540 1560 1610 1640

by FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.7 90.7 91.1 91.7 92.1 92.5 93.3 94.5 95.1 95.7 96.1 96.5 96.9 97.3 97.9 98.3 99.1 100.1 100.3 100.7 102.1 102.5 102.9 103.7 104.5 104.7 104.9 105.3 105.7 106.1 106.9 107.7

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400 162.450 162.525

Digital radio	620 1130 1250 88.9-1 88.9-2 90.7-1 90.7-2 93.3-1 94.5-1 94.5-2 95.7-1 95.7-2 96.5-1 97.3-1 97.3-2 98.3-1 98.3-2 99.1-1 99.1-2 100.7-1 100.7-2 102.1-1 102.9-1 103.7-1 103.7-2 106.1-1 106.1-2 106.9-1

by callsign	KEC60 KZZ76 WWG91 WAUK WBKV WCCX WDDW WFAW WGTD WGLB WHAD WHQG WIIL WISN WJMR-FM WJTI & W250BN WJYI WKKV-FM WKLH WKTI WLDB WLIP WLKG WLUM-FM WLVE WMBZ WMIL-FM WMSE WMWK WMYX-FM WNOV WNRG-FM WOKY WSJP WSJP-FM WPJX WPTJ444 & WPZK577 (WISDOT Traffic) WRIT-FM WRJN WRNW WRRD WSJP-FM/W273AT WSSP WTKM WTKM-FM WTMJ WUWM WVCY-FM WVTY WWDV WXSS WYMS WZTI

Defunct	WAWA WFMR

Nearby radio markets Fox Cities Madison Sheboygan–Manitowoc Janesville–Beloit–Jefferson County Chicago See also List of radio stations in Wisconsin

Classic Hits radio stations in Wisconsin

By frequency	900 980 1460 1600 94.3 94.9 95.7 95.9 96.5 97.9 98.7 99.1 99.3 102.1 102.3 102.3 103.1 103.9 105.7

By callsign	WATK WAUH WBOG WHTL WKFX WKLH WMDC WMQA-FM WOGB WOLX WOWN WPRE WRIT-FM WRKU WRPN WSPT WVBO WXCX WYDR

By city	Antigo Baraboo Forestville Mayville Milwaukee Minocqua Neenah-Menasha Reedsville Rice Lake Milwaukee Prairie du Chien Ripon Shawano Siren Stevens Point Tomah Wautoma Whitehall Winneconne

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Wisconsin See also Oldies Classic Hits

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