City Lake Geneva, Wisconsin First air date 1964 (as WMIR) Class D | Frequency 1550 kHz Format Silent | |
Power 1,000 watts day
1 watt night | ||
WZRK (1550 AM) was a radio station licensed to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, United States. WZRK was airing an Adult Album Alternative music format. WZRK returned to the air in late October 2009 after a period of being silent. In November 2010 WZRK was granted a Federal Communications Commission construction permit to change its city of license to Northbrook, Illinois with a power of 1,500 watts nondirectional daytime only. That construction permit expired and no action was ever taken.
History
The station went on the air as WMIR (named after the owner's wife Miriam) in 1964 as a daytime only signal. Music, local news and sports was the original programming. It had a small brick studio building at the transmitter on State Highway 50, east of Lake Geneva. WMIR was sold to Walt-West Wisconsin in 1995, and changed to a sports format, which resulted in the call letters being changed to WAUX as a simulcast of Waukesha's WAUK (then on 1510).
The station was then silent for a period of time until being sold to Relevant Radio and then returned to the air with a Catholic teaching and talk format. On November 12, 2001 the station changed its call sign to WZRK.
The station went off the air in January 2014. On 8/1/2014, "Upper Midwest Broadcasting" announced that WGLB, Inc. was purchasing WZRK for $100,000.00. WGLB, headed by Joel J. Kinlow, also owns WGLB. No immediate plans for WZRK were announced. An application to extend the station's silent status was filed with the FCC on 10/22/14.
In February 2015 WZRK's license was deleted by the FCC. The facility has since fallen into disrepair and has sustained significant vandalism damage.