WOKR (1310
AM) is a radio station broadcasting a
classic country music format. Licensed to
Canandaigua, New York
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, United States, the station is owned by Tim Stratton, through licensee 1310 FLX Radio, Inc.
History
The station went on the air as WCGR on October 14, 1997. On October 5, 1998, the station changed its call sign to WRSB; it operated intermittently throughout the 1990s and 2000s.
The station was acquired by Genesee Media Corporation on June 8, 2013, at a price of $450,000. The station added high-quality
C-QUAM
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AM stereo
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broadcasting in October 2013. It swapped call signs with
its simulcast partner on August 1, 2017, taking on the call sign WOKR (which pays homage to what is now
WHAM-TV
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). The station formerly broadcast on 105.5 FM (W288CS), but Genesee Media Corporation sold the FM translator to Bluelight Communications for a price of $650,000, and launched an Urban/R&B station on the translator.
The 105.5 translator was replaced by Genesee Media Corporation by translator W258BH (97.5 FM).
On September 21, 2017, WOKR changed formats from
sports
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to
talk
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Communication
* Communication, the encoding and decoding of exchanged messages between people
* Conversation, interactive communication between two or more people
* Lecture, an oral presentation intended to inform or instruct
...
and the 97.5 translator switched to a simulcast of sister station WRSB (which in turn flipped to Spanish). The new format contained a collection of shows from
Fox News Radio
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History
In 2003, ...
,
Compass Media Networks
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It is owned by former Westwood One CEO and former COO of Connoisseur Media, Peter Kosann. The company focuses on radio and offers representation and m ...
,
Bloomberg Radio
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and
Radio America.
On November 12, 2018, WOKR changed formats to classic country and added FM translator W238DG (95.5). An agreement to sell the station to Timothy Stratton (owner of
WYLF) was struck in October 2019, and consummated on March 1, 2020, at a price of $250,000.
As of 11 pm, Sunday May 2, 2021, WOKR changed its format to
classic hits and included a more local focus for the Canandaigua area, featuring local news, weather and sports. As of July 2022, WOKR returned to airing its classic country format.
Translators
References
External links
OKR (AM)
Classic hits radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1998
1998 establishments in New York (state)
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