WSDK
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| City | Bloomfield, Connecticut |
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| Broadcast area | Hartford, Connecticut |
| Branding | WSDK 1550 AM |
| Slogan | Life Changing Radio |
| Frequency | 1550 kHz |
| Translator(s) | W237EO 95.3 FM |
| First air date | October 6, 1963 |
| Format | Religious programming |
| Power | 5,000 watts day 2,400 watts night |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 37804 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°51′47″N 72°44′1″W / 41.86306°N 72.73361°W |
| Former callsigns | WEXT (1963–1977) WMLB (1977–1986) WGAB (1986–1988) WLVX (1988–1993) WRDM (1993–1998) WDZK (1998–2011) |
| Affiliations | Salem Radio Network |
| Owner | Blount Communications (Blount Masscom, Inc.) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wsdk1550.com |
WSDK (1550 AM) is a radio station licensed to Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station is owned by Blount Communications and broadcasts religious programming.
WSDK signed on October 6, 1963 as WEXT, licensed to West Hartford, Connecticut, with a 1000-watt daytime-only signal on 1550 kHz and a country and western format. The studios at that time were located at 999 Farmington Avenue in West Hartford Center and the transmitter and tower were at 99 Grassmere Avenue in West Hartford. Flood control work on Trout Brook adjacent to the transmitting tower resulted in damage to the ground system.
In 1972, the studios were moved to the 2nd floor of the Culbro Building at 630 Oakwood Avenue in West Hartford.
In 1977, the station changed ownership and the call letters were changed to WMLB, which was a combination of the first names of the three owners: Mary, Lou and Barry. Soon afterward, WMLB was one of the first stations in the state to install a satellite downlink when the Mutual Broadcasting System, of which WMLB was an affiliate, agreed to place a 3-meter downlink on the roof of the transmitter building. This site then served as the Connecticut hub for Mutual and also for the Associated Press for the next ten years.
In 1985, the station was sold to a group of investors from Long Island, New York, and the format became talk radio as The Talk of Hartford. Springfield talk show host Dan York was brought in as Program Director and the station secured the rights to run The Larry King Show at midnight, formerly on WPOP. Shortly afterward, the station's city of license was changed from West Hartford to Bloomfield, Connecticut, and the transmitter site was moved to Bloomfield to facilitate a daytime power increase up to 5,000 watts and the addition of nighttime service at 2,400 watts. The Bloomfield facility, which is still in use today, utilizes six tower on 9 acres (36,000 m2) of land in its directional antenna system. It also changed its call letters to WGAB the following March. However, the talk format proved short lived: by the end of the year, WGAB went off the air due to financial hardship, and the station remained silent for nearly two years.
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