WPTK off air -- CP for 50 kW days?

[FloridaBear1776]

WPTK 1200 AM, which I believe is Spanish after flipping from talk after flipping from Spanish after flipping from talk, has a CP for 50 kW daytime,
four towers, main lobe pointing north. Presumably they would be detectable on car radios as far north as Tampa once they get this up and running?

Radio-locator says WPTK is off the air. Can anyone from Fort Myers confirm this? Any idea whether the new facility portends another format change?

 

[DiamondJoe]

> WPTK 1200 AM, which I believe is Spanish after flipping from
> talk after flipping from Spanish after flipping from talk...

Actually, you're confusing it with AM 1240 (the former WTLQ) that flipped to Spanish before becoming WNOG's simulcaster for WINK-AM. 1200 was the former WNOG before then.<P ID="signature">______________


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[dawnzig]

Re: WPTK off air -What's what?

> > WPTK 1200 AM, which I believe is Spanish after flipping
> from
> > talk after flipping from Spanish after flipping from
> talk...
>
> Actually, you're confusing it with AM 1240 (the former WTLQ)
> that flipped to Spanish before becoming WNOG's simulcaster
> for WINK-AM. 1200 was the former WNOG before then.
>
OK, now I'm REALLY confused. I don't want to get into which had what call letters before, I just want to know what is what NOW!
I am under the impression that WINK 1240 AM simulcasts to WNOG on *1270* AM.
Also, I too, believed that 1200 is/was WPTK (Pine Island), a Spanish Tropical station as of 10/28/05, which now is dark.
Is this correct???
dawnzig

 

[bossmsx]

Re: WPTK off air -What's what?

> OK, now I'm REALLY confused. I don't want to get into which
> had what call letters before, I just want to know what is
> what NOW!
> I am under the impression that WINK 1240 AM simulcasts to
> WNOG on *1270* AM.
> Also, I too, believed that 1200 is/was WPTK (Pine Island), a
> Spanish Tropical station as of 10/28/05, which now is dark.
> Is this correct???
> dawnzig

OK:

1240:

was originally WINK, since loooong ago (50s?).....

It became WTLQ, with a Talk format, inheriting it from 1200 (see below).

Then WTLQ/1240 went Spanish.

Then it became WINK again, which it now is.


1200:

Was WDCQ, signing on in the 80s.....Oldies, then Talk.

Then became WTLQ.

Swapped briefly with WINK/1240, putting WTLQ on 1240, and WINK on 1200,
*lasted a few years*, eventually things 'sorta' went back to what they were, and WINK returned to 1240, BUT:

1200 became WPTK, first as "Power Talk".

Then, Spanish "Rumba 1200", traditional Salsa/Merengue Spanish music.

That (1200) is the one with the CP for 50kw.

I had no idea 1200 was dark?? I was up there New Years 12-31-05 to 1-1-06 and they were very much on the air, playing music en Espanol and I actually recorded four hours worth of them..Of course that was 2 months ago.

btw: this "WINK/WNOG" simulcast has only been going on since the mid-90s..It used to be WINK and WNOG were two separate Talk stations. There's alot more to this, but I've probably said more already.


So as of right now:

WINK: 1240
WNOG: 1270
WPTK: 1200