WBGK

For the airport in Mukah, Malaysia assigned the ICAO code WBGK, see Mukah Airport.

WBGK

City	Newport Village, New York
Broadcast area	Utica, New York
Branding	Bug Country
Slogan	Today's Best Country
Frequency	99.7 MHz
Repeaters	101.1 WBUG (Fort Plain)
Format	Country music
ERP	1,400 watts
HAAT	206 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	110
Transmitter coordinates	43°8′28.00″N 75°1′49.00″W / 43.1411111°N 75.0302778°W / 43.1411111; -75.0302778
Callsign meaning	BuG Kountry
Affiliations	ABC Radio
Owner	Ken Roser (Roser Communications Network, LLC)
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	bugcountry.com

WBGK is an FM radio station licensed to Newport (village), New York. The station broadcasts a country music format under the branding "Bug Country". The station broadcasts at 99.7 MHz on the FM dial and is owned by Roser Communications Network, Inc. The station also has a simulcast with WBUG-FM (101.1) in Fort Plain, New York, though high school football games are broadcast only on WBGK 99.7.

Though the station is licensed to the village of Newport, New York, the license states "Newport Village" as the city of license. There is no city or village in New York State called "Newport Village".

WBUG-FM began as a locally produced simulcast with WBUG in Amsterdam and WBGG in Saratoga Springs. WBGG broke from the simulcast in 1994, and it was replaced with Little Falls-licensed WLFH (now ESPN Radio affiliate WIXT, along with WTLB and WRNY), which had itself been a country music station. The stations then broadcast the Real Country satellite classic country format from ABC Radio, and added WBGK at 99.7FM in 2001.^[1] WLFH was later acquired by Clear Channel Communications and left Bug Country to join the "Sports Stars" network of WADR/WUTQ and WRNY. In 2004, WBUG left Bug Country to become talk-formatted WVTL, leaving WBGK and WBUG-FM as the only two stations in the Bug Country network. In November 2009, WBGK and WBUG-FM dropped Real Country and swapped it with a continuous automated selection of country Christmas music. After the holidays, their current format of mainstream country was launched and the station returned to local production.

References

↑ http://www.fccinfo.com/CMDProEngine.php?sCurrentService=FM&tabSearchType=Appl&sAppIDNumber=554593

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WBGK

Radio-Locator information on WBGK

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WBGK

Query the FCC's FM station database for WBUG

Radio-Locator information on WBUG

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WBUG

Radio stations in the Utica–Rome, New York market

By AM frequency	570 950 1230 1310 1350 1420 1450 1480 1550

By FM frequency	88.1 88.7 89.5 89.9 90.3 90.7 91.5 91.7 91.9 92.7 93.5 94.9 95.5 96.1 96.9 97.3 97.9 98.7 99.7 100.3 100.7 101.9 102.5 103.5 104.3 105.5 107.3

By callsign	W201BS W238CA WARW WBGK WFRG-FM WHCL-FM WHIH-LP WIBX WIXT WJIV WKAL WKLL WKVU WLZW WMVN WNRS WODZ-FM WOPG-FM WOUR WPNR-FM WQBJ WRCK WRNY WRUN WRVN WSKS WSKU WSYR WTLB WUMX WUNY WUSP WUTQ-FM WVHC WXLB WXUR

Defunct stations	1150 WUTI

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Country radio stations in the state of New York

Stations	WBBI – Endwell WBBS Fulton WBEE-FM – Rochester WBGK – Newport Village WBKT – Norwich WBKX – Fredonia WBNR – Beacon WBRV-FM – Boonville WBUG – Fort Plain WCGR – Canandaigua WCJW – Warsaw WCKR – Hornell WDBY – Patterson WDLA-FM – Walton WDLC – Port Jervis WDNB – Jeffersonville WDOS – Oneonta WELJ - Montauk WFLK – Geneva WFRG – Utica WFRY – Watertown WGNA-FM – Albany WHUG – Jamestown WHWK – Binghamton WINR – Binghamton WJVC – Center Moriches WKBE – Warrensburg WKLI-FM – Albany WKPQ – Hornell WKXP – Kingston WLFK – Gouverneur WLLG – Lowville WLNA – Peekskill WLSV – Wellsville WNBL – South Bristol Township WNCQ-FM – Canton WNSH – Newark/New York¹ WOKN – Southport WPDM – Potsdam WPGI – Horseheads WPIG – Olean WQNY – Ithaca WRCE – Watkins Glen WRWB-FM – Ellenville WRWD-FM – Highland WSEN-FM - Baldwinsville WUUF – Sodus WVNV – Malone WVTT – Portville WXRL – Lancaster WYRK – Buffalo WZKZ – Alfred

¹ = Although WNSH is licensed to Newark, NJ, it also serves the New York City area, with both it's studios and it's transmitter atop the Empire State Building in New York City.

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in New York

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