WKYS
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| City | Washington, D.C. |
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| Broadcast area | Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area |
| Branding | 93.9 WKYS |
| Slogan | D.C.'s #1 for Interactive Hip Hop and R&B |
| Frequency | 93.9 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | June 1947 (as WRC-FM) |
| Format | Analog/HD1: Urban Contemporary HD2: Urban Talk (WOL simulcast) |
| ERP | 24,500 watts |
| HAAT | 215 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 73200 |
| Callsign meaning | KYS (word play on KISS) |
| Owner |
Radio One (Radio One Licenses, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WMMJ, WOL, WPRS-FM, WYCB |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | kysdc.com |
WKYS (93.9 FM) is an American radio station broadcasting an urban contemporary radio format, that serves the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Its transmitter is located on the same tower as WRC-TV, a legacy of its former ownership by NBC. The station broadcasts from a class B signal with an effective radiated power of 24,500 watts (24.5 kilowatts(kW) on 93.9 MHz frequency. WKYS has a city of license of Washington, D.C., and is owned by Radio One. It is co-owned with WMMJ, WOL, WPRS-FM and WYCB and has its studios located in Silver Spring, Maryland.
WKYS is licensed by the FCC to broadcast in the HD digital hybrid format.
The station was first launched as WRC-FM in June 1947 alongside its television partner, WRC-TV channel 4 (originally as WNBW). Both were built from the ground up by NBC, which launched WRC 980 AM 24 years earlier. It inherited the call sign from its AM radio partner based on RCA's ownership of the network. During its early days it carried a jazz format. The transition from the beautiful music format into what is now WKYS occurred when NBC moved the Top 40 format that was on sister station WRC/980 to WKYS to make way for an all news format on the AM station. For a short time in 1975, the two stations simulcast the Top 40 format.
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