WZKY

WZKY

City	Albemarle, North Carolina
Branding	Oldies Radio 1580
Slogan	"Good Times & Great Oldies"
Frequency	1580 kHz C-QUAM AM Stereo
First air date	July 9, 1956
Format	Oldies
Power	1,000 watts day 12 watts night
Class	D
Facility ID	49044
Transmitter coordinates	35°21′38.00″N 80°10′39.00″W / 35.3605556°N 80.1775000°W / 35.3605556; -80.1775000
Affiliations	ABC Radio
Owner	Stanly Communications
Sister stations	WSPC
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	WZKY Online

WZKY (1580 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Albemarle, North Carolina, USA. The station is owned by Stanly Communications.

WZKY broadcasts an oldies music format that at one time included programming from the Classic Hits network by ABC Radio.^[1]

WZKY is where Bob Harris, "Voice of the Blue Devils, got his start in the radio business".

History

In 1967, Bob Harris, now voice of the Duke Blue Devils, offered to take over the job of announcing West Stanly High School football games for WZKY, though his only experience had been as a student announcer for Albemarle High School (North Carolina) Albemarle High School basketball. WZKY station manager Ralph Gardner gave Harris a reel-to-reel tape recorder because the 250-watt station could only broadcast during the daylight hours, and the game would not air until 11 the A.M. on Saturday.

Harris became morning host and sports director, and added more games, including boys' and girls' basketball, until, a 2009 Salisbury Post article said, "By 1975, WZKY was originating more sports programming than any other station in the state." Harris remained sports director at WZKY for eight years before moving to WDNC.^[2]

References

↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
↑ Wineka, Mark (2009-11-08). "Voice of Blue Devils got his start in Albemarle". Salisbury Post. Retrieved 2009-11-08.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WZKY

Radio-Locator Information on WZKY

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WZKY

Oldies radio stations in the state of North Carolina

By frequency	630 1050 1170 1230 1280 1300 1350 1410 1470 1500 1580

By callsign	WAIZ WCLN WHIP WLON WNNC WSAT WSMX WSYD WTIX WTOE WZKY

By city	Albemarle Clinton Concord Hickory Lincolnton Mooresville Mount Airy Newton Salisbury Spruce Pine Winston-Salem

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in North Carolina See also Oldies Classic Hits

AM Stereo radio stations in the United States

The following 89 stations broadcast in C-QUAM AM stereo.

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