- WBOK
Infobox Radio station
name = WBOK
city = New Orleans,Louisiana
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slogan =
branding = "Talking Back and Talking Black"
frequency = 1230kHz
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format =Gospel Music
power =
erp = 1,000watt s unlimited
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class = C
facility_id = 10917
coordinates = coord|29|59|18.00|N|90|2|45.00|W|region:US_type:city
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owner = Bakewell Media of Louisiana, LLC
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affiliations =Westwood One WBOK (1230 AM) is a
radio station broadcasting aChristian radio format. Licensed toNew Orleans, Louisiana , USA, the station serves the New Orleans area. The station is currently owned by Bakewell Media of Louisiana, LLC and features programing fromWestwood One . [ cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WBOK |title=WBOK Facility Record |work=United StatesFederal Communications Commission , audio division ] Its current slogan is "Talking Back and Talking Black".WBOK is currently operating however, with a very weak signal due to damage sustained from
Hurricane Katrina . The station has now been purchased by Danny J. Bakewell on behalf of The Bakewell Family, one of the nations oldest and largest African-American owned-and-operated real estate development companies. The Bakewell Company is also the owner of The "Los Angeles Sentinel " newspaper, the largest and oldest African-American newspaper west of the Mississippi.Fact|date=April 2008History
AM 1230 was originally WJBW with a Top 40 format in the late 1950s, but by the end of the decade it switched call letters to
WSHO and became a Broadway music formatted outlet. In 1962 WBOK swapped signals with WSHO and moved its R&B format to the 1230 signal. The R&B format would last until the late 1970s when it evolved to its current format after it was sold to Bishop Levi Willis (its current owner).The failure of levees constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers immediately following the landfall of Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 resulted in flooding of WBOK's studio and offices. The station's transmitter site received additional flood damage and the broadcast tower was severely damaged.
WBOK has returned to the air as of 11/3/07 with an urban music and talk format.
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*AMQ|WBOK
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