WKY
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| City | Oklahoma City |
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| Broadcast area | Oklahoma City Metroplex |
| Branding | 930 WKY Deportes |
| Frequency | 930 kHz |
| First air date | 1922 |
| Format | Spanish Sports |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Callsign meaning | None; assigned sequentially |
| Owner |
Cumulus Media (Radio License Holding CBC, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KATT, KKWD, KQOB, KYIS, KWPN, WWLS-FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live page |
| Website | laindomable.com |
WKY (930 AM) is a radio station located in Oklahoma City and is under ownership of Cumulus Media. Its studios are in Northwest Oklahoma City, and the transmitter and 1 tower are located on E. Britton Road in Oklahoma City.
WKY is the oldest radio station in Oklahoma, the 28th-oldest in the nation and the third-oldest west of the Mississippi River (behind only WEW in St. Louis and KGU in Honolulu). It has featured many formats over the years, including Top-40, Oldies, Country, Adult Contemporary, Easy Listening, Christian, "Hot Talk," News-Talk and Regional Hispanic (acting as a simulcast of then-sister station KINB), and sports talk. The station broadcasts from the tallest AM radio tower in the country.
5XT became the 87th licensed station in the United States on March 16, 1922. It was owned by the Oklahoma Radio Shop (Earl C. Hull and H.S. Richards). The station was assigned the WKY call letters and began broadcasting weekdays from noon to 1:00 p.m. and from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. On Sundays, WKY was on the air from 3 to 4 p.m. and 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
On November 1922, WKY announced a "silent night" policy, meaning the station would broadcast only four, and later three nights a week. This was so listeners could have a chance to tune into other stations in neighboring states.
Richards and Hull struggled to keep WKY on the air. In late 1925, Richards left the radio business, but Hull continued to keep WKY on the air by selling shares of the station to radio dealers in Oklahoma City. The dealers paid Hull a small salary to keep the station broadcasting; however they decided the financial drain had become too much. In 1928, WKY was purchased by the Oklahoma Publishing Company, publishers of the Daily Oklahoman for the hefty sum of $5,000 (over $63,000 in 2010 dollars).
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