City Forest Lake, Minnesota Frequency 95.9 MHz ERP 3,000 watts | Branding The Big Q First air date 1978 | |
Format Oldies (WQPM simulcast) | ||
WLKX-FM/95.9 is a radio station licensed to Forest Lake, Minnesota, and primarily serving the far north suburbs of the Twin Cities.
The station is owned by Lakes Broadcasting Company, Inc., a private corporation owned by the Peters family, who are primarily Christian-based broadcasters. The station previously aired contemporary Christian music syndicated and local religious spoken word and worship broadcasting. WLKX-FM is currently operated on behalf of the Peters family by Milestone Radio, LLC, which is also controlled by the Peters family and which also owns or manages several other stations surrounding the Twin Cities area, including WQPM in Princeton, KLCI in Elk River, KASM and KDDG in Albany.
The station briefly simulcast with its sister station south of the metro area, KBGY. In 2004, KBGY split off from the simulcast and currently airs a Regional Mexican music format.
When St. Paul-based KNOF switched to a music-only format in 2007, many syndicated and local religious spoken word programs that had used KNOF to air their broadcasts in the Twin-Cities market moved their programming to WLKX-FM.
The WLKX call letters have been with the station for several decades, and in the past, the station has programmed adult contemporary and country music formats.
On October 15, 2013 WLKX changed their format to a hybrid Regional Mexican/Tropical format, branded as "La Neta".
On October 1, 2015 WLKX changed their format to oldies, branded as "The Big Q", simulcasting WQPM 1300 AM Princeton, Minnesota. The station can also be heard on the HD-3 of KLCI 106.1 in Albertville, and KDDG 105.5 in Albany.