WXYK (105.9

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, "105.9 The Monkey") is a

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and serving the

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- Gulfport - Pascagoula

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. The station has a top 40 (CHR)

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and is owned by Telesouth Communications Inc. The

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s and offices are on Three Rivers Road in Gulfport. WXYK carries ''

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'' and ''

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with

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'', syndicated from

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. WXYK has an

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(ERP) of 25,000

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s from its

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off Pine Hills Road in

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History

WGUD/Kiss-FM/WXRG

The station started as a

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outlet, using the

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WGUD, then WGUD-FM. It flipped to a

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hits outlet as WXYK, "105.9 KISS FM", until 1997 when 105.9 FM, 96.7 FM and 107.1 FM switched frequencies. KISS FM went to the 107.1 FM frequency, with

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moving from the 96.7 FM frequency to the 105.9 FM frequency as WXRG.

Go-FM/Classic Rock 105.9/Bob 105-9

On September 21, 2006, after a day of stunting with a loop of

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's ''

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'', WXRG dropped

for classic hits as ''105.9 GO-FM'' and adopting the WHGO call letters. In 2009, the station gradually leaned back to a true classic rock format and rebranded as ''Classic Rock 105.9''. On October 4, 2010, WHGO began stunting with a

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voice reciting a countdown of the days, hours, minutes, and seconds while interspersing a random movie quote or song lyric a few times each minute. On October 8, at 3 p.m., WHGO flipped to adult hits, branded as ''Bob 105.9'' with a new call sign of WQBB. The station was programmed by local radio veteran "Weerd Wayne" Watkins. In July 2014, station owner Triad Broadcasting was sold to

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, along with

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s WCPR,

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, WXYK and WTNI.

105.9 The Monkey

In December 2018, Alpha Media announced it would be selling its Gulf Coast cluster to local Mississippi broadcast company Telesouth Communications Inc., which already owned WOSM, a

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station in the Biloxi market. The FCC approved the sale on February 12, 2019, and closed on March 1, 2019. On March 1, at midnight, after playing ''

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'' by

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, WQBB dropped the adult hits format and assumed the programming of " 107-1 The Monkey", which was spun off to another local company, Port Broadcasting, as part of the sale to Telesouth. The first song on "105.9 The Monkey" was ''

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'' by

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. This move returned the CHR format and WXYK call letters to the frequency after a 22-year absence.The Monkey Displaces Bob in Biloxi
Radioinsight - February 28, 2019

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