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Radio stations in Charlotte Harbor, Florida

title: "WIKX" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["country-radio-stations-in-florida", "iheartmedia-radio-stations", "1970-establishments-in-florida", "radio-stations-established-in-1970"] description: "Radio stations in Charlotte Harbor, Florida" topic_path: "general/country-radio-stations-in-florida" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIKX" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Radio stations in Charlotte Harbor, Florida ::

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Field	Value
logo	WIKX-FM.png
logo_size	150px
name	WIKX
city	Charlotte Harbor, Florida
country	US
area	Southwest Florida
branding	Kix Country
airdate
frequency
format	Country
erp	100,000 watts
haat	246 m
affiliations	Premiere Networks
class	C1
facility_id	28899
callsign_meaning	"Kix"
former_callsigns
owner	iHeartMedia, Inc.
licensee	iHM Licenses, LLC
sister_stations	WBCG, WBTT, WCCF, WCKT, WCVU, WOLZ, WWCD, WZJZ
webcast
website	kixcountry929.iheart.com
licensing_authority	FCC
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WIKX (92.9 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Charlotte Harbor, Florida, and serving Charlotte County in Southwest Florida. It broadcasts a country music format branded as "Kix Country". The station is owned by iHeartMedia with studios on Tiseo Boulevard, off Kings Highway in Port Charlotte.

WIKX is a Class C1 FM station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for most FM stations. The transmitter is near Redwood Road in Rotonda Lakes. The signal stretches from Sarasota to the north, down to Fort Myers to the south.

History

The station signed on the air on September 1, 1970. The original call sign was WCCF-FM, the sister station to WCCF 1580 AM. WCCF-FM transmitted at 92.7 MHz and its city of license was Punta Gorda. It broadcast at 3,000 watts, a fraction of its current output. With the low power, WCCF-FM could only be heard in Punta Gorda and nearby communities.

At first, WCCF-FM simulcast the same programming as WCCF 1580 AM. But after a few years, it had its own format. It was automated and played beautiful music, consisting of quarter-hour sweeps of soft instrumentals. In the late 1970s, the station began adding some mellow vocals to the instrumental music and made the transition to easy listening. It changed its call letters to WQLM but was still co-owned with WCCF.

The 1990s brought some big changes to WQLM. It flipped to country music as WIKX. It moved up the dial to 92.9 MHz, which also brought a substantial boost in power to 50,000 watts. And in 1999, WIKX and WCCF were acquired by San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications.

In the early 2000s, WIKX doubled its power to 100,000 watts and changed its city of license to Charlotte Harbor. In 2014, Clear Channel changed its name to iHeartMedia, Inc.

References

"WIKX".
[https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1977/C%20Section%20Radio%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201977%20P-6.pdf ''Broadcasting Yearbook 1977'' page C-46. Retrieved Feb. 24, 2025.]
[https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1988/B-Radio-1988-YB.pdf ''Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1988'' page B-64. Retrieved Feb. 24, 2025.]
[https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/2000/D-Radio-All-BC-YB-2000-2.pdf ''Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2000'' page D-101. Retrieved Feb. 24, 2025.]

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