WNNK-FM
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| City | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
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| Broadcast area | South Central Pennsylvania |
| Branding | Wink 104 |
| Slogan | Harrisburg's Best Music Mix |
| Frequency | 104.1 MHz |
| First air date | 1962 |
| Format | Hot Adult Contemporary |
| ERP | 22,500 watts |
| HAAT | 221 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 32945 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°18′59.0″N 76°57′4.0″W / 40.316389°N 76.951111°W (NAD27) |
| Callsign meaning | WiNK 104 |
| Former callsigns | WTPA-FM (1962-1985) WNNK (1985-1990) |
| Owner |
Cumulus Media (Cumulus Licensing LLC) |
| Sister stations | WWKL, WQXA-FM, WHGB, WZCY-FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wink104.com |
WNNK-FM (104.1 FM, "Wink 104") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format. Its studio is located at 2300 Vartan Way, Suite 130, Harrisburg and its transmitter and broadcast tower are located on Blue Mountain in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County.
The station signed on for the first time in 1962 as WTPA-FM under ownership of Newhouse Broadcasting, owner of WTPA-TV, with a Beautiful Music format. In 1980, the station adopted the "FM104" branding with a format change to AOR. Newhouse sold WTPA to Foster Media in 1982, who then sold it to Keymarket Communications in 1984. In January 1985, the call sign was changed to WNNK, the station's branding changed to "Wink 104" and the format changed to Contemporary Hit Radio. Throughout the 80s and 90s, Wink 104 was consistently ranked #1 in the Arbitron ratings for the Harrisburg / Carlisle / Lebanon market.
Beginning in the late 1990s, Wink 104's ownership was changed several times due to mergers and acquisitions. Keymarket Communications sold WNNK to Capstar Broadcasting Corporation in 1995. In 1998, Capstar and Chancellor Media Corporation announced a merger that would result in Chancellor Media owning 463 stations in 105 markets when the deal was completed in second quarter 1999. Chancellor Media later became AMFM, Inc.
AMFM, Inc. was purchased by Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in a deal announced on October 3, 1999, and valued at $17.4 billion. The merger brought WNNK and WTPA under the same ownership. An interesting footnote to this series of acquisitions is that a substantial percentage of WTPA's on-air imaging and DJ banter consisted of attacks on Wink 104 and its personalities in the years leading up to the Clear Channel purchase. Once both stations wound up under Clear Channel control, the new owners required WTPA DJs to immediately cease all on-air references to Wink 104.
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