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Broadcast area | Richmond–Petersburg |
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| Frequency | 95.3 MHz (HD Radio) |
| Branding | K95.3 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Country music[1] |
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| Affiliations | Premiere Networks |
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| W282CA, W291CL, WJSR, WKLR, WURV | |
| History | |
First air date | November 17, 1972 |
Former call signs | WPVA-FM (1972–1984)[2] |
Call sign meaning | Kick (previous branding) |
| Technical information[3] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| 319 | |
| Class | B |
| ERP | 47,000 watts |
| HAAT | 156 meters (512 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°26′22.0″N 77°26′1.0″W / 37.439444°N 77.433611°W |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | FM/HD1 Listen live Listen live (via iHeartRadio) (HD2) |
| Website | k95country.com |
WKHK (95.3 FM "K95.3") is a commercial radio station licensed to Colonial Heights, Virginia, United States, serving Richmond and Petersburg.[1] It broadcasts a country format and is owned by SummitMedia.[4] The studios are in Richmond on Moorefield Park Drive near Midlothian Turnpike (U.S. Route 60).[5]
The transmitter is in Bensley, Virginia. WKHK broadcasts in HD Radio;[6] WKHK's subchannels play classic country and Christian contemporary formats.
The station signed on the air on November 17, 1972.[7] Its original call sign was WPVA-FM, the sister station to WPVA 1290 AM (now WDZY). Both stations were owned by Sterling Broadcasting, simulcasting a full service country music format.[8] Because the AM station was a daytimer, required to go off the air at night, WPVA-FM was able to continue broadcasting its country music into the evening.
WPVA-AM-FM were originally licensed to Petersburg but later changed their city of license to the suburb of Colonial Heights. At the time, WPVA-FM was only powered at 3,000 watts, a fraction of its current output. That limited its signal to Petersburg and adjacent communities but not the larger Richmond radio market. In 1984, WPVA-FM separated its programming from the AM station, going with a more music country sound, with fewer interruptions and DJ chatter. It changed its call letters to WKHK, to represent the word "kick" (The WKHK call sign had been used for a New York City country station on 106.7 FM between 1980 and 1984. That station is now adult contemporary WLTW Lite-FM).
In 1988, WKHK was acquired by ABS Richmond Partners.[9] It was given permission by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to increase its power. That allowed it to cover the larger, more lucrative Richmond metropolitan area.
Cox Media bought WKHK in 2000.[10] The Atlanta-based company has newspaper, cable and broadcasting properties around the U.S. In February 2013, Cox sold its radio properties in Richmond, including WKHK, and several other markets to SummitMedia, based in Birmingham, Alabama.[11]
On August 7, 2016, WKHK-HD2 and FM translator W282CA signed on for the first time.[12][13] The new stations began stunting with Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang, by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, on a loop.[12] The stunt ended just after Noon, on August 9, and the Classic Hip Hop format began.[12] Using Westwood One's Classic Hip Hop network, the first song heard on the station, after the stunting, was Rock It by Master P.[12][14][15]
On May 7, 2021, WKHK-HD2/W282CA dropped the classic hip hop format and began simulcasting WKHK's main signal.[16]
On January 11, 2022, WKHK-HD2/W282CA ended the WKHK simulcast and changed its format to classic country as "Classic Country 104.3".[17]
On April 22, 2026, WKHK-HD2/W282CA rebranded as "Neon Country 104.3".[18]
WKHK-HD3 carries a non-commercial Contemporary Christian music format branded as "The Journey" based at 88.3 WRVL in Lynchburg. That programming feeds translator W235AI at 94.9 FM. WRVL is owned by Liberty University, which was founded by televangelist Jerry Falwell.
| Call sign | Frequency | City of license | FID | ERP (W) | HAAT | Class | FCC info | Notes |
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| W282CA | 104.3 FM | Richmond, Virginia | 154008 | 250 | 180 m (591 ft) | D | LMS | translator for HD2 subchannel |
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WKHK (95.3 FM "K95.3") is a commercial radio station licensed to Colonial Heights, Virginia, United States, serving Richmond and Petersburg. It broadcasts a country format and is owned by SummitMedia. The studios are in Richmond on Moorefield Park Drive near Midlothian Turnpike (U.S. Route 60). The transmitter is in Bensley, Virginia. WKHK broadcasts in HD Radio; WKHK's subchannels play classic country and Christian contemporary formats.
WDFN (1130 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Detroit, Michigan. Owned by iHeartMedia, it broadcasts an all-news radio format under iHeartRadio's Black Information Network (BIN), targeting Detroit's African-American community. Its studios and offices are on Halsted Road in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills. By day, WDFN transmits with 50,000 watts, the maximum for commercial U.S. AM radio stations. AM 1130 is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A stations in New York City, Vancouver and Shreveport, so to avoid interference, WDFN reduces power at night to 10,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna with a nine-tower array. The transmitter is on Vreeland Road at West Jefferson Avenue in the downriver community of Gibraltar.
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Riverside Church is an interdenominational church in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The church is associated with the American Baptist Churches USA, the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists and the United Church of Christ. The present church building was conceived by philanthropist businessman and Baptist John D. Rockefeller Jr. in conjunction with Baptist minister Harry Emerson Fosdick, designated to be a large, interdenominational church in Morningside Heights, which is surrounded by academic institutions. The church occupies the block bounded by Riverside Drive, Claremont Avenue, 120th Street, and 122nd Street near Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus and across from Grant's Tomb. The original building opened in 1930; it was designed by Henry C. Pelton and Allen & Collens in the Neo-Gothic style. It contains a nave consisting of five architectural bays; a chancel at the front of the nave; a 22-story, 392-foot (119 m) tower above the nave; a narthex and chapel; and a cloistered passageway that connects to the eastern entrance on Claremont Avenue. Near the top of the tower is the church's main feature, a 74-bell carillon—the heaviest in the world—dedicated to Rockefeller Jr.'s mother Laura Spelman Rockefeller. A seven-story wing was built to the south of the original building in 1959 to a design by Collens, Willis & Beckonert, and was renamed for Martin Luther King Jr. in 1985. The Stone Gym to the southeast, built in 1915 as a dormitory, was designed by Louis E. Jallade and was converted to a gymnasium in 1962. Riverside Church has been a focal point of global and national activism since its inception, and it has a long history of social justice in adherence to Fosdick's original vision of an "interdenominational, interracial, and international" church. Its congregation includes members of more than forty ethnic groups. The church was designated as a city landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2000 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
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