WLKE

For other stations that previously held the WLKE call sign, seeWBFE,WFDL (AM),andWPKR.

WLKE

Gallitzin, Pennsylvania
Broadcast area	Altoona, Pennsylvania
Frequency	93.5MHz
Branding	Positive, Encouraging, K-Love
Programming
Format	Christian Radio
Affiliations	K-Love
Ownership
Owner	Educational Media Foundation
History
First air date	2000
Former call signs	WHPA (1998–2011) WCGJ (2011–2014)
Call signmeaning	Variation of K-Love (station name)
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	82271
Class	A
ERP	1250watts
HAAT	221.5 meters (727 feet)
Transmitter coordinates	40°29′36″N78°32′31″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	http:// klove /listen/player.aspx
Website	http:// klove

WLKE(93.5FM) is an American,Christianradio stationservingAltoona, Pennsylvania,from Gallitzin, its city of license. WLKE operates at an effective radiated power of 1,250Watts.The station is owned byEducational Media Foundation.

History

The groundwork for WHPA actually was laid in the late 1980s, when a construction permit to build a new FM station was issued to William C. Bland, the owner of Bland Radio Group, Inc., which was then the licensee ofWNCCinBarnesboro, Pennsylvania.The station was assigned the frequency of 94.3, a class A power output of 3,000 watts and the call letters WRHB-FM.

However, this station would never sign on the air under Bland's ownership. WNCC was turned over to a bankruptcy receiver (local attorney Mark Gregg) in 1990, forcing its sale to J. Richard Lee (dba Eagle Radio, Inc.) in 1992. The FM construction permit was allowed to expire in the meantime, with Eagle Radio focusing its religious radio format efforts on WNCC and its two other simulcast stations,WRDDandWCRO.

Those three stations were sold in 1996. Vernal Enterprises purchased WRDD and WNCC, immediately changing their formats from religion to full-service oldies and talk. WCRO was spun off to theGreater Johnstown School District.Vernal Enterprises successfully applied for the FM construction permit that had been allowed to expire before.

Construction of WHPA had encountered a delay when Anthony F. Renda, ofRenda Broadcastinghad also applied at around this same time to put a new station of his own on the air inBrookville, Pennsylvania,about 50 miles northwest inJefferson County.In order to allow the 25,000 watt station to operate, frequency shuffles had to take place among several other stations in the area, including the new construction permit for WHPA. The station was reassigned a new license to operate at 93.5 FM.

WHPA had initially planned to go on the air onValentine's Day,February 14, 1999, as a promotional gimmick for its new moniker "93.5 The Heart". However, the Brookville radio station project pushed the actual on-air date to the summer of the following year.

Following WHPA's debut, this station and its two AM sisters moved to the First United Federal Building in downtown Ebensburg. In 2006, after longtime flagship stationWFBGdid not renew its contract, WHPA became the new flagship for theAltoona Curve,an affiliation that lasted three seasons.

Also that same year, Vernal Enterprises applied to the FCC for another construction permit to move WHPA's signal closer to Altoona by building a new tower in the Cambria/Blair County border town of Gallitzin, almost doubling its previous coverage. With the move came the change of its city of license fromNorthern Cambria, Pennsylvaniato Gallitzin.

Vernal Enterprises sold WHPA to Radio Partners, LLC, which was approved on November 22, 2010.

On February 15, 2011, WHPA changed their call letters to WCGJ. On February 1, 2014, the station's call sign was changed to WLKE.

Effective January 17, 2017, Radio Partners sold WLKE and sister stationWLSFto Educational Media Foundation for $400,000.

External links

• Facility details for Facility ID 82271 (WLKE)in theFCCLicensing and Management System
• WLKEinNielsen Audio's FM station database