First air date 1968 ERP 100,000 watts Class C City of license Baton Rouge Owner iHeartMedia Inc Slogan Wynk If You Love It | Audience share 5.8 (Winter 2008, R&R) HAAT 457 meters Frequency 101.5 MHz Format Country music Branding Wynk Country 101-5 | |
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Broadcast area Baton Rouge metropolitan area Area Baton Rouge metropolitan area | ||
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WYNK-FM (101.5 FM) is a Country music formatted radio station licensed to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The iHeartMedia, Inc. station broadcasts with an ERP of 100 kW. Many credit WYNK with instituting the first "top forty country format" in the country. Its studios are located east of downtown Baton Rouge near the I-10/I-12 interchange and its transmitter is in Plaquemine, Louisiana.
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History
WYNK-FM has been on the country format scene since December 7, 1968 and has managed to hold off a lot of competitors ever since. Its AM sister station, WYNK, was originally known as WEND and began broadcasting in the 1950s. In the late-1950s the call sign was changed to WYNK. WYNK experienced financial problems in the early-1960s and went off the air for a time, only to return under new ownership and great success beginning on October 31, 1962. The force behind this rise to excellence is credited to R. D. McGregor. McGregor sold his interest in 1983 to Hicks Broadcasting, a company that would eventually become Capstar before merging with Clear Channel Communications. WYNK's AM sister station (since renamed WPYR) was sold to Davidson Media in 2007.
WYNK served as the flagship station for the nationally syndicated "Big D and Bubba" show from 1999 until 2003. The show is still broadcast on WYNK, but is now based in Nashville, TN at flagship WSIX.
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Afternoon driver Scott Innes is the current voice of Scooby-Doo in the cartoon series and was the voice of Scrappy-Doo in the 2002 live action film.
WYNK-HD2
WYNK-FM still airs a classic hits format playing the best variety of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s on its HD2 digital subchannel branded as "Downtown Radio 97.7", which is on iHeart radio. The FM translator, K249DV 97.7 was the classic hits format with the HD2 channel until January 2, 2017, which was the time it started to get simulcasted by sister station News Radio 1150 WJBO.