It is licensed to Savannah, Georgia, and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. WSOK carries the syndicated "Early Morning Praise Party with Dre Monie and Sherry Mackey" from WHAL Memphis.
[4] By the early 1950s, WFRP was the local outlet for the short-lived Liberty Broadcasting System,[5] In 1952, it became a network affiliate for ABC Radio.
[6] In 1958, Albert Fisher, who had previously owned stations in Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina, bought WFRP from the Georgia Broadcasting Company for $87,500.
[8] As the sale concluded, an application was filed to increase WSOK's daytime power to 1,000 watts, which was granted in November 1961.
In 1970, a Race Relations Information Center noted that five white-owned groups (including Speidel) owned 22 soul stations, at which African Americans held 34 of the 84 executive positions.
[21] Among the talk shows from 1978 to 1994 was one hosted by future Savannah mayor Otis Johnson, titled "Message from the Grass Roots", which aired on Sunday afternoons.
[23] However, Clear Channel came under fire in 2004 for axing most of the station's live talk programming while not doing the same to sister WTKS, with a primarily white audience.