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WIZK

Bay Springs, Mississippi
Broadcast area	Jasper County, Mississippi
Frequency	1570 kHz
Branding	K-101
Programming
Format	Country
Ownership
Owner	Steve Stringer (Sage Communications, LLC)
History
First air date	September 10, 1971 (first license granted)
Former call signs	WHII (?-1987)
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	14022
Class	D
Power	3,200 watts (day only)
Transmitter coordinates	31°57′56″N 89°18′03″W / 31.96556°N 89.30083°W / 31.96556; -89.30083
Translator(s)	W270CZ (101.9 MHz, Bay Springs)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	k101country.com

WIZK (1570 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Bay Springs, Mississippi. The station is owned by Steve Stringer, through licensee Sage Communications, LLC. It airs a country music format. The station was assigned the WIZK call letters by the Federal Communications Commission in 1987.

It is one of the few stations left in the United States that are owned by an individual rather than a corporation. WHII had a sister station, WXIY at 94.3 FM on which was a simulcast of the AM programming. In the 1970s, WHII was a daytime only station, and when WHII (AM) signed off, the sister station WXIY (FM) changed to R&B format until its signoff at midnight. In the 1980s, WXIY dropped its callsign in favor of WHII, still a country music station, simulcasting, with the change of callsign of WIZK in the latter part of the decade. In the late 1990s, the FM station was sold to Blakeney Communications, Inc. and became WKZW "KZ-94".

References

1. ^ "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
2. "Facility Technical Data for WIZK". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
3. "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Archived from the original on March 1, 2010.

External links

• WIZK K 101 Facebook
• Facility details for Facility ID 14022 (WIZK) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• WIZK in Nielsen Audio's AM station database

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