Technical Profile: WKAC

AM Technical Profile: WKAC

Frequency:: 1080
Format:: Oldies
Transmitter Location:: [map] [street view] Behind the studios on Elkmont Road in Athens, just north of Airport Road.
Power (ERP):: Day: 5 kW; Critical hours: 2.5 kW
Antenna:: 1 tower
Other Information:: 0.5 mV/m Daytime Groundwave Service Contour from the FCC's Public Files
[FCC]
[FCCdata.org]; [Radio-Locator]; [Wikipedia]
[Facebook]
History:: The WKAC calls stand for Ken A. Casey, owner. He put the station on the air (as Limestone Broadcasting) in August of 1964 as a 1 kW daytimer, with studios and transmitter where they are today! The original transmitter was an RCA BTA-1R1. The station got a permit to raise power to 5 kW in 1968.

The station was Top 40 until 1976, when it switched to country. That lasted until 1994. Presently has a 70's centered oldies format during the day, and in the 2000s picked up evening programming from 4 pm to 7 pm with Spanish Christian programming as "Radio Alabanzas". That was gone by late 2011, and the station is once again straight-up oldies.