City McComb, Mississippi Frequency 105.7 MHz ERP 100,000 watts | Branding K106 Format Country music | |
Slogan Southwest Mississippi's Big Country | ||
WAKH (105.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Country music format, licensed to McComb, Mississippi, USA. The station features programming from Citadel Media. The station is owned and operated by Charles W. Dowdy, debtor-in-possession, following the September 2011 bankruptcy filing by Southwest Broadcasting, Inc.
History
The station was assigned call sign WIXO-FM on February 15, 1979. On May 4, 1979, the station changed its call sign to WIXO then again on September 8, 1981, to the current WAKH.,
On September 21, 2011, Charles W. Dowdy, acting as the sole owner of license holder Southwest Broadcasting, Inc., dissolved the corporation and assigned the broadcast licenses it held (WAKH plus sister stations WAKK, WAPF, WAZA, WFCG, WJSH, WKJN, and WTGG) to himself acting as debtor in possession before initiating a Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The FCC approved the license transfer on December 19, 2011.