WHK (AM)
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| City | Cleveland, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Cleveland |
| Branding | AM 1420 The Answer |
| Slogan | News. Opinion. Insight. |
| Frequency | 1420 kHz |
| First air date | March 5, 1922 |
| Format | Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts (daytime) 5,000 watts (nighttime) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 313743 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°21′30.00″N 81°40′3.00″W / 41.3583333°N 81.6675000°W |
| Callsign meaning | H. K. Carpenter |
| Former callsigns | WHK (1922–2001) WHKK (2001) WCLV (2001–03) WRMR (2003–05) |
| Former frequencies | 830 kHz (1922–24) 1060 kHz (1924–27) 1130 kHz (1927–30) 1390 kHz (1930–41) |
| Affiliations |
Akron Zips Bloomberg Radio Cleveland State Vikings NBC News Radio Saint Ignatius Wildcats Salem Radio Network Westwood One |
| Owner |
Salem Communications (Common Ground Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WFHM-FM, WHKW |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | whkradio |
WHK (1420 AM) – branded AM 1420 The Answer – is commercial talk radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland. WHK was the first radio station to broadcast in Ohio, and is the 15th oldest station still broadcasting in the United States.
Owned by Salem Media Group, WHK serves as the Cleveland affiliate for the Salem Radio Network, The Mark Levin Show, and Akron Zips football. The station also airs coverage of Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball. The WHK studios are located in the Cleveland suburb of Independence, while the station transmitter resides in neighboring Seven Hills. Besides its standard analog transmission, WHK is available online.
WHK began on July 26, 1921 when experimental station 8ACS signed on under a license obtained by Warren C. Cox in the name of Cox Mfg. Co. He broadcast on a wavelength of 200 meters (which translates to a frequency of 1500 kHz) from his home at 3138 Payne Avenue. Only about 1000 listeners were able to hear the first broadcast, and most of them were members of the Cleveland Radio Association. By 1922, licensees were barred from broadcasting on 200 meters, so Cox applied for a commercial broadcasting license.
Warren Cox received a commercial license for his station on February 21, 1922 with the callsign WHK (the Commerce Department was still issuing mostly three-letter callsigns to commercial radio stations before April 4, 1922), and HK standing for the station's first vice-president and general manager, H. K. Carpenter. It was only the 52nd commercial radio license issued by the Commerce Department.
The station broadcast at a wavelength of 360 meters (a frequency of 830 kHz) which was the standard broadcast frequency for entertainment radio stations at the time. The station started broadcasting on March 5, 1922 from facilities located in the rear of a Radiovox store at 5005 Euclid Avenue. By 1924, WHK broadcasts had moved to 1060 kHz.
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