WIKY

Infobox Radio Station
name = WIKY


area = Evansville, Indiana
branding =
slogan =
airdate = 1948
frequency = 104.1 (MHz)
format = Adult Contemporary
erp = 39,000 watts
haat = 174 meters
class = B
owner = South Central Communications
website = [http://www.wiky.com/]
callsign_meaning = Indiana, Kentucky

WIKY 104.1 FM is an full service/Adult Contemporary music radio station serving the Evansville, Indiana radio market. The call letters WIKY first debuted in 1948, when John A. Engelbrecht gained the FCC license for 820 AM. WIKY signed on August 4, 1948. The studios were on the west side of Evansville, in a unique building with the studios in the basement and the Engelbrecht residence upstairs. In 1953, Engelbrecht obtained one of the first FM licenses available, at 104.1 FM. Over the past 60 years, the Engelbrecht family maintained ownership of WIKY through their company South Central Communications, which owns 5 stations in Evansville, as well as radio stations in Nashville and Knoxville and a Muzak provider (South Central Sound).

In the most recent Arbitron ratings report, WIKY is the most listened to radio station in the Evansville metro survey area. [http://www.radioandrecords.com/RRRatings/DefaultSearch.aspx?MarketName=&MarketRank=161] . WIKY has been named "Best Radio Station" by the Evansville Courier Press "Reader's Choice" Awards the past two years, and was recently nominated for the "AC Station of the Year" award by Radio and Records magazine.

External links

* [http://www.wiky.com Official Website]
*FMQ|WIKY
*FML|WIKY

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