WQYK-FM

WQYK-FM

City	St. Petersburg, Florida
Broadcast area	Tampa, Florida
Branding	99.5 QYK
Slogan	Tampa Bay's New Country Hits
Frequency	99.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) 99.5-2 FM: Business Talk (WHFS (AM) simulcast)
First air date	May 1958 (as WTCX)
Format	Country
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	174 meters
Class	C1
Facility ID	28619
Callsign meaning	tribute to former sister station WQIK in Jacksonville
Former callsigns	WTCX (1958-1972)
Owner	Beasley Broadcast Group (WDAS License Limited Partnership)
Sister stations	WBRN-FM, WHFS, WLLD, WRBQ-FM, WYUU
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	995qyk.com

WQYK-FM (99.5 FM) is a commercial country music radio station in Tampa, Florida. It is under ownership of Beasley Broadcast Group. Its studios are in St. Petersburg (city of license) while its transmitter is east of Palm River-Clair Mel.

It signed on the air in May 1958 as WTCX. WTCX was a 31,000 watt classical music station and the first Tampa Bay FM to introduce stereo sound. It originally broadcast from a tiny studio at the transmitter site at 5750 North Haines Road in St. Petersburg, Florida and was owned by Trans-Chord company. The call letters changed to the current WQYK-FM in 1972, and began its long running country format.^[1] Infinity Broadcasting would buy the station from Lake Huron Broadcasting in January 1987.^[2] Infinity would be renamed CBS Radio in December 2005.

On October 2, 2014, CBS Radio announced that it would trade all of their radio stations located in Charlotte and Tampa (including WQYK), as well as WIP in Philadelphia, to the Beasley Broadcast Group in exchange for 5 stations located in Miami and Philadelphia.^[3] The swap was completed on December 1, 2014.^[4] Shortly after the swap, the station branding was changed from "99.5 WQYK" to "99.5 QYK".

References

↑ http://www.radioyears.com/other/details.cfm?id=434
↑ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1980s/1987/RR-1987-01-30.pdf
↑ CBS And Beasley Swap Philadelphia/Miami For Charlotte/Tampa from Radio Insight (October 2, 2014)
↑ Venta, Lance (December 1, 2014). "CBS Beasley Deal Closes". RadioInsight. Retrieved December 1, 2014.

External links

WQYK Website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WQYK

Radio-Locator information on WQYK

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WQYK

Radio stations in the Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater, Florida market

By AM frequency	570 620 680 760 820 860 910 970 1010 1040 1110 1150 1250 1300 1340 1350 1380 1400 1450 1470 1500 1520 1550 1590 1620

By FM frequency	88.5 88.9 89.7 90.5 91.1 91.5 92.5 93.3 94.1 94.9 95.7 96.1 96.7 97.1 97.9 98.7 99.5 99.9 100.7 101.5 102.5 103.5 104.7 105.5 106.3 107.3

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.450 162.550

By callsign	KEC38 KHB32 WAMA WBTP WBRN-FM WBVM WCIE WDAE WDCF WDUV WFLA WFLZ WFUS WGES WGHR WGUL WHBO WHFS WHNZ WHPT WKES WLCC WLLD WMGG WMNF WMTX WPOI WPSO WQBN WQYK-FM WRBQ-FM WRXB WSUN-FM WTAN WTBN WTWD WTIS WTMP WTMP-FM WUSF WWBA WWJB WWMI WWRM WXGL WXJB WXTB WXYB WYFE WYUU WZHR WZPH-LP (Bulls Radio)

Defunct	WFTI-FM (91.7 FM)

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Country radio stations in the state of Florida

By callsign:	WAAZ-FM WAKX WAVW WCKT WCNK WCTH WCTQ WDSR WDVH-FM WEAG-FM WFDZ WFUS WGNE-FM WHKR WHWY WIKX WIMR-LP WIRK WIYD WJAQ WJSB WKIS WKNK WKRO-FM WMAF WMYR WOGK WOKC WOTW WPAP WPCV WPHR-FM WQHL-FM WQIK-FM WQLC WQYK-FM WRUF-FM WTNT-FM WTOT-FM WTRS WTYS WWGR WWKA WWOF WWOJ WXBM-FM WYCT WYZB WZZS

By frequency:	1050 1230 1260 1340 1340 1410 1480 1570 1660 92.1 92.3 92.5 92.7 92.9 93.1 93.5 93.7 94.7 94.9 96.5 97.5 98.1 98.1 98.7 98.7 98.7 99.1 99.1 99.5 99.9 99.9 100.3 100.9 101.7 101.7 101.9 102.1 102.3 102.7 102.7 103.1 103.1 103.1 103.5 103.5 103.7 104.7 105.5 106.3 106.9 107.1

By community of license:	Avon Park Boca Raton Callaway Charlotte Harbor Crestview Crestview Dunnellon Fort Myers Fort Myers Gainesville Gifford Graceville Gulfport Holt Indiantown Jacksonville Key West Lake City Lehigh Acres Live Oak Madison Marianna Marianna Mary Esther McIntosh Middleburg Milton Ocala Okeechobee Orlando Palatka Palm Coast Panama City Pensacola Perry Plantation Key Port Orange Rockledge Starke Stuart Tallahassee Tallahassee Tampa Trenton Venice Watertown Windermere Winter Haven Zolfo Springs

Defunct:	WEAG/1490: Starke

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

Beasley Broadcast Group

Delaware	WJBR-FM

Florida	WBRN-FM WHFS WHSR WJBX WJPT WLLD WQYK-FM WRBQ-FM WRXK-FM WSBR WWCN WWNN WXKB WYUU

Georgia	WAEC WCHZ-FM WDRR WGAC WGAC-FM WGUS-FM WHHD WKXC-FM WRDW WWWE

Massachusetts	WRCA

New Jersey	WTMR

Nevada	KCYE KDWN KKLZ KOAS KVGS

North Carolina	WAZZ WBAV-FM WBCN WFLB WFNZ WIKS WKML WKQC WMGV WNCT WNCT-FM WNKS WPEG WSFL-FM WSOC-FM WUKS WXNR WZFX

Pennsylvania	WTEL WWDB

Coordinates: 27°55′55″N 82°24′04″W / 27.932°N 82.401°W / 27.932; -82.401

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