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Overview
Licensed to Akron, Ohio, WAKS is a contemporary hit radio station broadcasting on 96.5 FM. It brands itself as “96.5 KISS-FM.” It began broadcasting in 1958.
License and signal
- Call sign
- WAKS
- Frequency
- 96.5 FM
- Format
- Contemporary hit radio
- On-air name
- 96.5 KISS-FM
- City of license
- Akron, OH
- Market
- Cleveland-Akron (Canton), OH
- Licensee
- iHM Licenses, LLC
- Power
- 31,000 watts
- Station class
- B
- First on air
- 1958
- FCC facility ID
- 49952
- FCC public file
- publicfiles.fcc.gov
- Wikipedia
- Read the article
Network programming comes from Premiere Networks. The FCC license is held by iHM Licenses, LLC. It has used the WAKS call letters since July 2001.
Akron is in the Cleveland-Akron (Canton), OH market, where local newspapers include Akron Beacon Journal. Sister stations include WARF, WGAR-FM, WHLK, WMJI and WMMS.
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WAKS at a glance
- Frequency
- 96.5 FM
- On air as
- 96.5 KISS-FM
- Format
- Contemporary hit radio
- Licensed to
- Akron, OH
- Market
- Cleveland-Akron (Canton), OH
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