WIZK

WIZK

City of license	Bay Springs, Mississippi
Broadcast area	Jasper County, Mississippi
Frequency	1570 kHz
Format	Country
Power	3,200 watts (day only)
Class	D
Facility ID	14022
Transmitter coordinates	31°57′56″N 89°18′03″W / 31.96556°N 89.30083°W
Former callsigns	WHII (?-1987)[1]
Owner	Steve Stringer (Sage Communications, LLC)

WIZK (1570 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Bay Springs, Mississippi. The station is owned by Steve Stringer, through licensee Sage Communications, LLC. It airs a country music format.^[2] The station was assigned the WIZK call letters by the Federal Communications Commission in 1987.^[1]

It is one of the few stations left in the United States that are owned by an individual rather than a corporation. WHII had a sister station, WXIY at 94.3 FM on which was a simulcast of the AM programming. In the 1970s, WHII was a daytime only station, and when WHII (AM) signed off, the sister station WXIY (FM) changed to R&B format until its signoff at midnight. In the 1980s, the WXIY dropped its callsign in favor of WHII, still a country music station, simulcasting. In the late 1980s or early 1990s, the FM station was sold to Blakeney Communications, Inc. and became WKZW "KZ-94".

References

1. "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
2. "Station Information Profile". Arbitron.

External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for WIZK
• Radio-Locator Information on WIZK
• Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WIZK