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WXRK Is Returning to New York City at 5:00 PM

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Over at the "New York" board, I've heard that as of 5:00 PM, WFNY should bring back the WXRK calls from Cleveland back to New York City to become the new 92.3 K-Rock. Are they going to restore the former WRQX calls at 92.3 in Cleveland? Find out!
 
Here is the call letter history of 92.3 (actually the license was originally for 95.3 and later 95.5 before settling at 92.3 in the late 50's

WSRS-FM 1950-58
WJMO-FM 58-59
WCUY 59-71
WLYT 71-83 (formats included Top 40, Disco, AC, and Oldies)
WRQC 83-90 (formats included Modern Rock and CHR)
WJMO-FM 90-94 (format migrated from mainstream CHR to rythmic CHR)
WZJM 94-01 (rhythmic CHR, rhythmic oldies)
WXTM 01-06 (modern rock)
WXRK 06-

And for the record, the WRQX calls have been in Washington since the early 70's... originally Album Rock, later Top 40/CHR, then Hot AC.

CBS may reclaim the WXRK calls for New York but they may pick something else that conveys the "K-rock" monniker.
 
SonoSational18 said:
Here is the call letter history of 92.3 (actually the license was originally for 95.3 and later 95.5 before settling at 92.3 in the late 50's

WSRS-FM 1950-58
WJMO-FM 58-59
WCUY 59-71
WLYT 71-83 (formats included Top 40, Disco, AC, and Oldies)
WRQC 83-90 (formats included Modern Rock and CHR)
WJMO-FM 90-94 (format migrated from mainstream CHR to rythmic CHR)
WZJM 94-01 (rhythmic CHR, rhythmic oldies)
WXTM 01-06 (modern rock)
WXRK 06-

And for the record, the WRQX calls have been in Washington since the early 70's... originally Album Rock, later Top 40/CHR, then Hot AC.

CBS may reclaim the WXRK calls for New York but they may pick something else that conveys the "K-rock" monniker.
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Last I checked, WRKZ (the former K-Rock in Pittsburgh's calls) is available. I'm guessing that WRQC is too, though it has been used a bit elsewhere around the country since leaving Cleveland in 1990. Irony of ironies, 92.3 picked WRQC as an emulation of KROQ, which their "Rock of the 80s" format was also directly copied by 92.3... this before it went Top-40.

And the switch to WZJM happened when the Southern Christian Leadership Conference asserted programming control of WJMO-AM - when WZAK owner Zapis Communications (along with Zebra Communications; composed of WZAK's Lynn Tolliver and Bobby Rush) tried to buy WJMO AM/FM. Zapis/Zebra won the legal fight, but the call change was a direct result thereof.

- Nathan Obral
 
I guess that the K-Rock name is back in New York City at 92.3 and low and behold, the WXRK calls that are in Cleveland for a year is back to stay in New York City. No word on what the moniker and the call letters changes at 92.3 takes place. I hope they should brig back Xtreme Radio and the return of WXTM at 92.3 after the flip.
 
WKRI (the former WXRK) is the station's new callsign as of last week. However, I was listening to 92.3 Krock a few minutes ago and heard an ID at the top of the hour that still referred to the station as WXRK. How can the station get away with that when the callsign has officially been changed to WKRI?

BTW, what is meant by the ID "WKRI Cleveland Heights/Cleveland, now on super-shuffle"? I know what "shuffle" means (the station is playing music at random without air personalities), but "super-shuffle" has me baffled.

I lived in Cleveland Heights over 30 years ago and remember well WKRI's (then WLYT) oldies, disco, et al. formats. (I remember WCUY as well; I lived in Wickliffe at that time [late sixties to 1971] and heard the station just fine.) From 1972 to 1975 I lived just one street away from the station's tower (I could see it at night from my bedroom window); the signal was so powerful it caused interference galore--even getting into a solid-state stereo cassette tape deck's amplifiers and rendering the deck useless for recording.

I live in Fairport Harbor now; I can still get 92.3 Krock, but the alternative rock format doesn't appeal to me (my taste runs more to oldies), so I don't listen to it much (or at all) these days. I only had it on briefly when I read that the call sign had been changed to WKRI.

Speaking of callsigns: Since the station still calls itself "92.3 Krock", I can't help wondering why the calls weren't changed to WCKR (Cleveland's K-Rock), rather than WKRI. I haven't looked it up, but is WCKR assigned to another station in another city?
 
Jeff Strieble said:
Speaking of callsigns: Since the station still calls itself "92.3 Krock", I can't help wondering why the calls weren't changed to WCKR (Cleveland's K-Rock), rather than WKRI. I haven't looked it up, but is WCKR assigned to another station in another city?
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WCKR is taken according to Radio-Locator by a country station in the state of New York: http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?sr=Y&s=C&call=WCkr&x=0&y=0
 
Bump!

Because as of today, WKRI is WKRK - as the former Detroit-WKRK flips to Sports and abandons the calls.

Now if WKRK ever flips back, will they steal THEIR calls back from 92.3 like NYC did? Sheesh. ::)

Not that calls are that big of a deal as far as K-Rocks' on-air presentation goes, but "WKRI" just sounded...kinda lame.
 
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