WKKX is a
News
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Talk
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Sports
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formatted
broadcast radio station
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licensed to
Wheeling, West Virginia
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, United States, serving Wheeling in
West Virginia
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St. Clairsville in
Ohio
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. WKKX is owned and operated by RCK 1 Group, LLC.
Programming
WKKX is a locally-owned station that features local news talk. Notable hosts are Howard Monroe, Steve Novotney, and Bill DiFabio.
In 2009, the long-running ''
Jamboree'' radio program moved from its longtime home of
WWVA, where it had aired from 1933 until its cancellation in the mid-2000s, to WKKX. The ''Jamboree'' is the third longest running radio program in the US behind the ''
Grand Ole Opry'' and ''
Music and the Spoken Word
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[ ] The ''Jamboree'' moved to
WWOV no later than 2016.
Daily programming is simulcast on both AM 1600 WKKX and AM 1370
WVLY between 6am-10am and 2pm-6pm.
WKKX is an affiliate of SB Nation, carrying its programming overnight.
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References
External links
FCC History Cards for WKKXFacebookAM 1600 WKKX
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