WOKR
WOKR may refer to:
WARW
WARW (93.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian rock/Air 1 format. Licensed to Remsen, New York, USA, the station serves the Utica area. The station is currently owned by Educational Media Foundation.
History
The station signed on the air on December 1, 1982 and ran as an adult contemporary station as WIBQ (B-93.5) until 1992 when it switched format and callsign to WKDY to become "Hot Country KDY 93.5". KDY Country stayed on 93.5 until a frequency swap took place in 1993 between WKDY and oldies-formatted WUUU. WUUU then became "Oldies 93.5". More than a year later, Norma Eilenberg changed WUUU's format to easy listening and became "Warm 93.5" . In 1996, "Warm 93.5" switched its callsign to WRFM. It adopted the slogan "not lite, just right" posing itself a rival to longtime AC Station WLZW (Lite 98.7). In 1997, Norma Eilenberg sold WRFM along with sister station WSKS to Dame Media and WRFM rebranded as "93.5 Warm FM", but retained the format. A year later, the station began to switch to a Christmas music format between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
WOKR (AM)
WOKR (1590 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format to the Brockport, New York, USA area. The station is currently owned by Brian McGlynn, through licensee Genesee Media Corporation.
History
The station went on the air in 1970 as WADD and was owned by a group of local businessmen. The station broadcast on 1560 kHz with a power of 1 thousand watts, utilizing a three tower in-line directional antenna array - daytime only. In 1976 the station was purchased by Canal Communications, inc. and the call letters changed to WWBK. Format was community oriented pop. In 1979 WWBK obtained a construction permit allowing the change to 1,000 watts full-time operation on 1590 kHz. The facility was sold in 1979 and the call letters changed to WJBT on 1980-04-14. On 1984-05-24, the station changed its call sign to WASB. On 2015-01-22, the station changed its call sign to the current WOKR.
The station was purchased by Genesee Media Corporation on July 8, 2013 at a price of $450,000, which included WRSB AM, Canandaigua, NY.
