WKGR

WKGR
City	Wellington, Florida
Broadcast area	Palm Beach, Port St. Lucie
Branding	Gater 98.7
Slogan	The Palm Beach's Rock Station
Frequency	98.7 MHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date	1961 (as WLQY)
Format	Classic rock HD2: Christian rock (WREH simulcast)
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	299 meters
Class	C1
Facility ID	1245
Former callsigns	WLQY (1961-1980) WIZD (1980-1984)
Owner	iHeartMedia, Inc. (Clear Channel Broadcasting Licenses, Inc.)
Sister stations	WLDI, WAVW, WQOL, WZZR, WCZR, WRLX, WJNO
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	gater.com

WKGR is a classic rock station licensed to Wellington, Florida and serving the West Palm Beach market. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., it transmits at 100,000 watts effective radiated power with an antenna height above average terrain of 980 feet. WKGR's signal can be picked up as far north as Melbourne, as far west as Moore Haven, and usually no further south than highway 595 in Fort Lauderdale. Its transmitter is located on the west side of Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound. Also sharing WKGR's transmitter tower are stations WPBZ (which itself was a primary competitor of WKGR before moving its rock programming to an HD Radio subchannel) and WMBX.

WKGR previously simulcast the programming of sister station WJNO on its HD2 subchannel starting in September 2010; by 2013 this was replaced with the signal of Christian rock station WREH.

Morning programming

WKGR: WKGR has survived as one of the remaining few stations in Florida that still play the Classic Rock format. BIG RIG voice tracks mornings 6a-10a from the Tampa affiliate, while BUCK MCWILLIAMS now handles middays 10a-3pm. Original cast member ANDY PRESTON continues to voice track the afternoon drive 3p-7p shift, and NIKKI SIXX' Sixx Sense entertains from 7p-12mid.

The most popular, controversial, and highest rated Morning Show in WKGR history was the SEA BASS and GLORIA Show in the mid-late 1990's. Family friendly BUCK and PEG Morning Show was reasonably popular for several years as well, as was MARK FROST in the 1980's.

After several station sales, Clear Channel- now IHEART MEDIA took over and held fast the Classic Rock format that continues its stronghold on South Florida radio ratings.

On-air DJs

BIG RIG – – 6am–10am Mon-Friday
Tyson – Monday–Fri 10 am–3 pm
Andy Preston – Monday–Sunday 3 pm–7 pm (3:20 Classic Cut, 5:00 Traffic Jam)
NIKKI SIXX– Monday–Saturday 7 pm–12 am
Buck McWilliams weekends 8a-12noon

Specialty programming

Monday - Saturday 7p-12mid: NIKKI SIXX "SIXX SENSE"

External links

Station website

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Radio-Locator information on WKGR

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Radio stations in the West Palm Beach–Boca Raton, Florida market

By AM frequency	640 670 740 760 850 900 960 1000 1040 1190 1230 1290 1340 1380 1420 1600

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 89.3 89.9 90.7 91.3 92.1 93.5 94.3 95.5 95.9 97.9 98.7 99.5 100.3 101.9 102.3 103.1 104.3 105.5 106.3 106.9 107.9

By callsign	W270AD WAYF WBGF WBZT WCNO WDJA WEAT WEFL WFLV WFTL WIRK WJBW WJCB WJNO WKGR WLDI WLLY-FM WLML-FM WLVJ WMBX WMEN WOLL WPBR WPOM WPSP WRLX WRMB WRMF WSBR WSFS WSVU WSWN WUUB WWFE WWRF WZZR

Florida radio markets Daytona Beach Fort Myers–Naples–Marco Island Ft. Pierce–Stuart–Vero Beach Ft. Walton Beach Gainesville–Ocala Jacksonville Lakeland-Winter Haven Melbourne–Titusville–Cocoa Miami–Ft. Lauderdale Orlando Panama City Pensacola Sarasota–Bradenton Tallahassee Tampa–St.Petersburg–Clearwater West Palm Beach–Boca Raton Other Florida radio regions Florida Keys Lake City Sebring See also List of radio stations in Florida

Radio stations in the Vero Beach–Ft. Pierce–Stuart market

By AM frequency	1330 1370 1400 1450 1490 1570 1590

By Shortwave frequency	9.955

By FM frequency	88.5 88.9 89.9 90.5 91.1 91.5 91.7 91.9 92.7 93.7 94.7 95.5 95.9 97.1 98.7 99.7 100.5 101.3 101.7 102.3* 103.7 104.7 106.3 107.9

By callsign	W203BE W300BQ WAVW WAYF WCNO WCZR WEFL WFLM WGYL WHLG WIRA WJFP WJKD WJNX WKGR WLDI WMBX WOSN WOKC WPHR-FM WPSL WQCS WQOL WREH WRMB WRMI WSCF-FM WSJZ-FM WSTU WTTB WUUB WWFR WZTA

Defunct radio stations	WYFR

Florida radio markets Daytona Beach Fort Myers–Naples–Marco Island Ft. Pierce–Stuart–Vero Beach Ft. Walton Beach Gainesville–Ocala Jacksonville Lakeland-Winter Haven Melbourne–Titusville–Cocoa Miami–Ft. Lauderdale Orlando Panama City Pensacola Sarasota–Bradenton Tallahassee Tampa–St.Petersburg–Clearwater West Palm Beach–Boca Raton Other Florida radio regions Florida Keys Lake City Sebring See also List of radio stations in Florida *WMBX is aimed for the West Palm Beach market, but broadcasts from Jensen Beach

Classic rock radio stations in the state of Florida

By frequency	92.1 92.5 94.5 95.5 95.7 95.9 98.7 99.5 100.7-2 102.5-2 103.1 104.7 105.9 105.9 107.9 1340

By callsign	WAIL WARO WBGG-FM WFKZ WHOG-FM WHPT-HD2 WKGR WMTX-HD2 WNDD WNDN WNDT WNFK WRBA WROD WTZB

By city	Alachua Chiefland Daytona Beach Englewood Fort Lauderdale Fort Pierce Key West Naples Ormond-By-The-Sea Perry Plantation Key Sarasota Silver Springs Springfield Tampa

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

iHeartMedia

Corporate officers	Bob Pittman (Chairman/CEO)

Board of directors	Lowry Mays Irving Azoff B. J. "Red" McCombs J. C. Watts John H. Williams

Radio stations	List of radio stations owned by iHeartMedia

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Coordinates: 27°01′34″N 80°10′41″W / 27.026°N 80.178°W / 27.026; -80.178

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