Broadcast area Metro Parkersburg Facility ID 73353 City of license Parkersburg Owner iHeartMedia Inc Branding Hank 1450 | Class C Frequency 1450 kHz Format Dark Area Metro Parkersburg Sister stations WLTP, WNUS, WDMX, WRVB | |
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First air date July 11, 1935 (as WPAR at 1420) Power 1,000 watts day and night Callsign meaning W HaNK (previous format) | ||
WHNK is a broadcast radio station licensed to Parkersburg, West Virginia, serving Metro Parkersburg. WHNK is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc..
History
The station signed on July 11, 1935 as WPAR, operating with 100 watts at 1420 kHz under the ownership of the Ohio Valley Broadcasting Corporation. It moved to 1450 in 1941; at the same time, WPAR boosted its power to 250 watts. The station was Parkersburg's first radio station, and remained the only station in the area during its first decade of broadcasting. On September 22, 1983, the station was renamed WIKS; on November 1, 1986, it became WLTP. The WLTP call sign moved to its sister station at 910 AM on March 9, 2004; at that time, 1450 AM became WHNK.
Clear Channel took WHNK off-the-air on April 28, 2014 after the station lost its lease with Walker Machinery, which owns WHNK's transmitter site and intends to use the property for expansion. At the time of the going silent, WHNK was broadcasting a classic country format.
On November 1, 2016 WHNK returned to the air with a Christian radio format branded as "Faith Talk 1450".