WKFI
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WKFI is a radio station
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...

  broadcasting a Classic Country
Classic country
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 format. Licensed to Wilmington, Ohio
Wilmington, Ohio
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, USA. The station is currently owned by Town And Country Broadcasting, Inc. and features programing from Fox News Radio
Fox News Radio
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Brief history

Founded in 1964 as WWWM which first took to the air on December 5th of that year. It became WKFI sometime in the late 1960s. Several formats over the years included middle of the road,country music with farm news and later southern gospel. WKFI also had an FM beginning in 1969 as WKIT at 102.3 mHz operating at first as a simulcast then briefly adopting the WKFI calls until the early 1970s when the callsign changed to WDHK with an adult contemporary format. That format remained throughout the 70s and 80s when the callsign was once again switched to WSWO-FM in 1982 and switched to new country in 1997. It became classic country in 2003 as a brief AM/FM simulcast of WBZI until WSWO-FM was sold to EMF Broadcasting becoming WKLN...the southwest Ohio repeater of K-LOVE
K-LOVE
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The WSWO callsign is now used at a low-power FM station in Huber Heights, Ohio
Huber Heights, Ohio
Huber Heights is a city in Montgomery, Miami, and Greene Counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. Huber Heights's motto is "America's largest community of brick homes." The city is named for Charles Huber, the developer who constructed a number of the houses that would later comprise the city. Suburban...

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WKFI-AM retains the simulcast of WBZI to this day.
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