WHKO

WHKO

City	Dayton, Ohio
Broadcast area	Dayton, Ohio Springfield, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio
Branding	K99.1 FM
Slogan	Today's New Country & Your Familiar Favorites
Frequency	99.1 MHz (also on HD Radio)
Translator(s)	98.7 W254BA (Riverside, relays HD3)
First air date	1946 March 17, 1989 (current format)
Format	Country HD2: 80s Classic rock (WZLR simulcast) HD3: Urban Oldies "The Soul of Dayton"
ERP	50,000 watts
HAAT	325 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	14245
Callsign meaning	A portmanteau of former WHIO callsign and K99.1 branding
Owner	Cox Media Group (Cox Radio, Inc.)
Sister stations	WHIO, WHIO-FM, WHIO-TV, WZLR
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	K99online.com

WHKO (99.1 FM, "K99.1") is a country music radio station licensed to Dayton, Ohio. The station is owned by Cox Media Group. With its 50,000 watt signal, WHKO is one of the strongest FM stations in the Southwestern Ohio area, and frequently makes mention of this during on-air promos. Its studios are co-located with the Dayton Daily News, WHIO-AM-FM-TV and two more radio stations in the Cox Media Center building near downtown Dayton. WHKO has a transmitter in Dayton's westside.

K99.1FM is known for playing a mix of both "New country and your familiar favorites" and has historically played more music and less commercials than most radio stations in the Dayton / Cincinnati radio market. With the strong signal and commitment to playing more music than the competition, WHKO has a long history of being near the top of the Dayton Arbitron ratings since it began its country format in March, 1989. K99.1 also shows up regularly in the Cincinnati Arbitron ratings, as its signal comes in clear throughout the greater Cincinnati market as well.

Early history

Originally founded in 1946 as WHIO-FM with a beautiful music format which since the 1960s was a kindred compliment to the middle of the road format of WHIO (AM). Though many FMs at first floundered and failed during its fledgling in the 1950s in favor of AM, WHIO-FM remained solid. It eventually became the reigning number 1 station in the Dayton market for many years as FM was considered to be an easy alternative to commercial pop music and the rise of Top 40 and country music on the AM dial during that time. In November 2006 the WHIO-FM calls were resurrected at 95.7 FM in Piqua (the former WDPT) as a simulcast of WHIO-AM's news talk format.

WHKO today

On March 17, 1989, the calls switched to WHKO and with it the format flipped from beautiful music to country. Prior to the switch, the top-rated country station in Dayton from 1969 to 1990 was WONE (AM) which now employs a sports/talk format.

WHKO-HD2/HD3

WHKO's HD-2 digital subcarrier airs a simulcast of 80s classic rock-formatted WZLR 95.3 FM Xenia, Ohio.

WHKO's 99.1 HD-3 digital subcarrier is leased to BC Dayton Broadcasting as "The Soul of Dayton," a possible reference and tribute to the former WDAO-FM (now WMMX) which airs an urban oldies format. The service made its debut on Monday September 9, 2013 and is re-transmitted on analog 98.7 FM (translator W254BA)

References

Greater Cincinnati Radio Guide

External links

K-99.1 FM

Query the FCC's FM station database for WHKO

Radio-Locator information on WHKO

Radio stations in the Dayton, Ohio market

By AM frequency	910 980 1110 1130 1210 1290 1340 1410 1500 1570 1600

By FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.3 89.5 89.5 89.9 90.3 91.3 92.1 92.9 93.7 94.5 94.9 95.3 95.7 96.5 96.9 97.3 98.1 98.3 98.7 98.7 99.1 99.9 100.7 101.1 101.5 102.5 102.9 103.3 103.5 103.9 104.7 105.9 106.5 106.9 107.1 107.3 107.7

By callsign	W254BA W254BJ W266BG W273BQ W277AO WBZI WCHD WCLI-FM WCSU-FM WCWT-FM WDAO WDHT WDPG WDPR WDPS WEDI WEEC WFCJ WFTK WGNZ WGRR WGTZ WHIO WHIO-FM WHKO WING WIZE WKCD WKET WMMX WNKN WONE WPFB WPTW WQRP WREW WROU-FM WRZX WSWO-LP WTJN-LP WTUE WUDR WULM WUSO WWSU WYDA WYDB WYNS WYSO WZDA WZLR

Ohio radio markets Akron Canton Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Dayton Lima Marietta Toledo Youngstown–Warren Other Ohio radio regions Ashtabula Ironton Mid-Ohio Sandusky Southern Ohio Wheeling/Steubenville See also List of radio stations in Ohio

Radio stations in the Cincinnati, Ohio market

By AM frequency	550 700¹ 740 910 1050 1160 1230 1320 1360 1450 1480 1530¹ 1560

By FM frequency	88.3 88.5 88.7 88.9 89.3 89.5 89.7 89.9 90.9 91.1 91.7 92.5 93.3 93.7 94.1 94.5 94.9 95.7 95.9 96.5 97.3 97.7 98.5 99.1 99.3 99.5 100.3 101.1 101.9 102.7 103.5 103.9 103.9 105.1 105.9 106.7 107.1 107.5

By callsign	W233BG WAIF WAKW WAOL WCKY¹ WCNW WCVG WCVX WDBZ WDJO WEBN WFCJ WFTK WGRI WGRR WGUC WHKO WHSS WIOK WIZF WJVS WKFS WKID WKRC WKRQ WLHS WLW¹ WMKV WMOH WMUB WMWX WNKN WNKR WNKU WNNF WNOP WOBO WOFX-FM WOSL WOXY WPFB WRBI WREW WRRM WSAI WSCH WUBE-FM WVQC-LP WVXU WYGY WZDA

Defunct	WJVS (88.3 FM) WLMH (89.1 FM) WAQZ (97.3 FM)

Nearby radio markets Bloomington-Columbus, IN Columbus, OH Dayton Huntington-Ashland-Ironton Indianapolis Lexington Louisville Southern Ohio See also List of radio stations in Ohio List of radio stations in Kentucky List of radio stations in Indiana ¹ = Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage.

Country music radio stations in the state of Ohio

By frequency	770 910 1090 1130 1320 1320 1340 1500 1540 1540 1560 1590 92.1 92.3 93.1 94.1 94.3 94.3 94.5 94.9 95.3 96.1 97.5 97.7 98.3 99.1 99.5 99.9 99.9 100.3 100.5 100.5 100.9 100.9 101.3 101.5 101.5 102.1 103.1 103.7 103.7 104.5 104.5 104.7 104.9 105.1 105.1 105.5 105.7 107.1 107.5 107.7 107.7

By callsign	WAIS WBCO WBGI-FM WBZI WCHO-FM WCJO WCKY-FM WCLI-FM WCLT-FM WCOL-FM WEDI WFGF WGAR-FM WHKO WIMT WIZE WKFI WKFM WKKJ WKKO WKKY WKLM WKNA WKXA-FM WLOH WLZZ WMJK WMRN-FM WNCO-FM WNNF WNTO WNUS WOBL WPFB WPFX-FM WQKT WQMX WQXK WRAC WSEO WSRW WTGR WTNS WTUZ WUBE-FM WWKC WXBW WXIZ WYBL WYCL WYDB WZOM WZVL

By city	Ashland Ashtabula Bellaire Belpre Buchtel Bucyrus Caldwell Chillicothe Cincinnati (WNNF) Cincinnati (WUBE-FM) Cleveland Clyde/Sandusky Columbus Coshocton Dayton Defiance Eaton Englewood/Dayton Enon/Dayton Findlay Fostoria Gallipolis Geneva Hillsboro Huron/Sandusky Jackson Lancaster Lima Lima Logan Luckey/Toledo Marion Medina/Akron Middletown Millersburg Montpelier Nelsonville Newark Niles Oberlin Pemberville/Toledo Philo Racine Salem Springfield Toledo Uhrichsville Union City Waverly Washington Court House West Union Wilmington Wooster Xenia

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

Cox Enterprises

Daily newspapers

Weekly newspapers

Cox Radio

Cox Television

ABC affiliates	WFTV WSB-TV WSOC-TV

CBS affiliates	KIRO-TV WHIO-TV WJAX-TV ¹

Fox affiliates	KOKI-TV WFOX-TV WFXT WHBQ-TV

Independent stations	WAXN-TV WRDQ

MyNetworkTV affiliates	KMYT-TV WFOX-DT2 ²

NBC affiliate	WPXI

Cable channels	4SD Cox Sports Television The Cox Channel

Cox Target Media

Automotive

AutoTrader.com (98%) (Kelley Blue Book)
Manheim Auctions

Other assets

¹ Cox Media Group operates this station under an LMA with Bayshore Television, LLC.
² This subchannel holds a secondary affiliation with Me-TV.

Coordinates: 39°44′02″N 84°14′53″W / 39.734°N 84.248°W / 39.734; -84.248

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