WCKL (defunct)

Infobox Radio station
name = WCKL
city = Catskill, New York
area = Mid Hudson Valley
airdate = 1970
format = [Currently Simulcasting 98.5 FM)
frequency = 560 kHz
power = 1,000 watts day
43 watts night, DA-1
class = D
facility_id = 63526
coordinates = coord|42|12|3.00|N|73|50|9.00|W|region:GB_type:city
callsign_meaning = W CatsKilL
former_callsigns = none
owner = Black United Fund of New York, Inc.
website = [none]

WCKL is the call sign of an AM radio station that is back in operation. [ cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WCKL |title=WCKL Facility Record |work=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division ] Licensed to Catskill, New York, USA, to broadcast at 560 kHz, the station serves the Hudson Valley area from Albany to Kingston. Most recently owned by Black United Fund of New York, Inc.. [ cite web|url=http://www.arbitron.com|title=Station Information Profile |work=Arbitron ] The station had sold to Clear Channel two years earlier in a $4.3 million package deal which included WCKL, WCTW, WHUC and then-WTHK (now WZCR). [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Clear Channel gets FCC nod | date= | publisher= | url =http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2002/02/04/weekinbiz.html | work =The Business Review | pages = | accessdate = 2008-01-23 | language = ]

During the 1970's & 1980's, the station was locally programmed with an Adult Contemporary 'full-service' format, featuring long-time morning host Guy Patrick Garraghan (currently heard on another local station, WRIP). In the 1990s, it featured a satellite-delivered pop standards format, and then briefly a simulcast of local co-owned FM station WZCR. In 2003, The Black United Fund of New York purchased the license for $100,000 (with original studios and the transmitter site being retained by seller, Clear Channel Communications) with plans to air a talk format aimed at the African-American community in the Albany area. ref>cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=New owner Black United Fund changes format of radio station | date= | publisher= | url =http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2003/06/30/story8.html | work =The Business Review | pages = | accessdate = 2008-01-23 | language = ] =External links=

*AML|WCKL
*AMARB|WCKL

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