WNKS
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| City | Charlotte, North Carolina |
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| Broadcast area | Charlotte/Metrolina |
| Branding | Kiss 95.1 |
| Slogan | Charlotte's #1 Hit Music Station |
| Frequency | 95.1 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | 1962 (as WIST-FM) |
| Format | Analog/HD1: Top 40 (CHR) HD2: CHR (Radio Disney) |
| ERP | 100,000 watts (analog) 3,980 watts (digital) |
| HAAT | 470 meters (1,540 ft) |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 53975 |
| Callsign meaning |
We Are North Carolina's KiSs! What's Up North Karolina?! (play on the word "Carolina") Station |
| Former callsigns | WIST-FM (1962-1972) WRNA (1972-?) WROQ (?-1990) WZZG (1990-1991) WGKL-FM (1/1991-10/1991) WAQQ (1991-1994) WEDJ (1994-1996) |
| Owner |
Beasley Broadcast Group (Beasley Media Group, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WBAV, WBCN, WKQC, WPEG, WSOC-FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | kiss951.com |
WNKS (95.1 FM, "Kiss 95.1") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Charlotte, North Carolina. The station is owned by Beasley Broadcast Group through licensee Beasley Media Group, LLC and broadcasts a top 40 (CHR) format. Studios are located on South Boulevard in Charlotte's South End and the station's broadcast tower is located near Dallas, North Carolina at (35°21′44.5″N 81°9′18.3″W / 35.362361°N 81.155083°W).
95.1 signed on in 1962 as WIST-FM with a beautiful music format, and was co-owned with WIST (AM 1240). In just a few years, WIST-FM flipped to oldies, one of the first ever in the format. SIS Radio, owners of 61 Big WAYS (610 AM), bought WIST-FM in 1972. That year, WIST-FM changed to progressive rock with the new letters WRNA, eventually becoming WROQ, and went by the moniker "95Q". Among the WROQ/WAYS DJs to become major celebrities were Robert Murphy (who went to greater fame in Chicago), and actor Jay Thomas, who went to KPWR in Los Angeles as the official host of "The Power 106 Morning Zoo". Larry Sprinkle, a WCNC-TV morning weather personality, also worked at the stations. The stations would simulcast in morning drive, while running separate programming the rest of the day. The progressive rock format would evolve into album-oriented rock in the early 1980s.
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