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WIOK when it was AC

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NoWayNoCC

When I lived in Highland Heights, I could usually pick up WIOK of Falmouth. Before it moved to 107.5 in the early 1990s, WIOK was 95.3. WIOK was country for many years, but around 1990-91, it switched to AC as K-95.

Does anybody else remember this?

AC didn't last long at all on WIOK. It probably only lasted a few months. Although we could pick up this station, I don't know anyone who listened. I just happened to stumble on it a few times. I don't even know anyone who remembers K-95 now. Even people who remember other small stations don't remember K-95.

Why AC? There were so many other AC stations at the time. I had thought that signal would be a good place for a top 40 with a very broad playlist, since those were not only becoming rarer but could have actually made a real difference. But another AC? How much influence did WIOK even have as an AC? And K-95 was a bad choice for a station name, since a major country station in Lexington at the time was called K-93.
 
NoWayNoCC said:
When I lived in Highland Heights, I could usually pick up WIOK of Falmouth. Before it moved to 107.5 in the early 1990s, WIOK was 95.3. WIOK was country for many years, but around 1990-91, it switched to AC as K-95.

Does anybody else remember this?

AC didn't last long at all on WIOK. It probably only lasted a few months. Although we could pick up this station, I don't know anyone who listened. I just happened to stumble on it a few times. I don't even know anyone who remembers K-95 now. Even people who remember other small stations don't remember K-95.

Why AC? There were so many other AC stations at the time. I had thought that signal would be a good place for a top 40 with a very broad playlist, since those were not only becoming rarer but could have actually made a real difference. But another AC? How much influence did WIOK even have as an AC? And K-95 was a bad choice for a station name, since a major country station in Lexington at the time was called K-93.
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I had forgotten that WIOK started life at 95.3 but don’t recall formats. When on that frequency the signal didn’t much make into the northern Cincinnati ‘burbs. It fought with the 95.3 out of Xenia/Dayton which usually got the better of the two. Even at 107.5, while nominally better, WIOK’s signal is spotty at best up this way.
 
I recall it with a rather small playlist. Can’t image those hillbillies in Pendleton County wanting to hear AC

As far as reception, once you dropped down from the hill into Covington, it was nearly gone.
 
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