WPOK was a daytime-only

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station in

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in the late 20th century. Owned by Collins Miller and Lane Lindstrom, it went on the air on August 1, 1966. In 1975 it was running a

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format, simulcast on its FM sister station 103.1 WPOK-FM. The FM changed its callsign to WJEZ in November 1984, and by 1989 AM and FM had separate formats: 1080 WPOK with

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and 103.1 WJEZ with modern

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. WPOK was silent by March 1998, last having an

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format. It surrendered its license on 24 March 1998 during its renewal process, and was deleted on 18 June 1998. The station's license was surrendered so that

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AM 1080 could move from

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and increase power from 250 watts to 1,900 watts. Its FM sister station, which had recently changed frequency to 93.7,

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Retrieved 2010-09-23. survived to become WTRX-FM in 2003, then

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in 2010.

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