Technical Profile: WOZK

AM Technical Profile: WOZK

Frequency:: 900
Format:: Urban Contemporary
Transmitter Location:: [map] [street view] West of Ozark, north of AL-27 on Rebecca Lane. Co-located with WOAB.
Power (ERP):: Day: 1 kW; Night: 70 watts
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]; // WKXK Pine Hill
// WKXN Fort Deposit
// WXKD Brantley
// W231DF Montgomery
// W292HL Troy
// WZKD Montgomery
// W251DE Ozark

Owned by Autaugaville Radio
History:: This station dates back to an original construction permit issued in 1951 to Ozark Broadcasting Corporation, for a 1 kW daytime only station on 900 kHz. When it signed on in 1953, it was transmitting from the same site it uses today, with a Collins 20V transmitter. It has always had the WOZK call sign.

The station launched WOAB on FM in 1963.

Going back to the mid-70's, the station had an Adult Contemporary format. It lasted for a surprisingly long time, only changing to an Adult Standards format sometime in the mid-2000's. At this time, the FM and AM were simulcasting and may have been the last stations in the state with a true Standards format.

The station was reported silent in February 2015, due to damage from a lightning strike. In March 2015, station owne Julian "J.B." Brown passed away.

It was announced that Dockins Communications would purchase the station and WOAB in May 2021, for $125,000. It appears that under their ownership, they acquired an FM translator for the station, W252DV. At some point, the format flipped to Hot Adult Contemporary as "98.3 K-Hits".

It was announced in mid-April 2024 that the station and its FM companion WOAB were being sold to Roscoe "Killer Diller" Miller's Autaugaville Radio for $160,000. That sale was granted by the FCC in mid-June 2024 and the stations flipped to his "Big K-D" Urban Contemporary format soon afterwards.

In late October 2024, the translator W265DV was granted an application to move to 98.1 MHz and relocate the transmitter site to a location near Pinckard, about halfway between Ozark and Dothan. A license to cover for the station (now W251DE) was filed the first week of November 2024.