WKY

[2] WKY is powered at 5,000 watts by day, using a 961 foot (293m) non-directional antenna that is the tallest AM radio tower in the United States.

Ownership decided to switch to non-directional nighttime operation, which allows WKY to need only one antenna, but required the station to drop to 510 watts at night.

[4] After the end of World War One, Hull was posted at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, where he taught radio communication classes.

Using a supply of scarce vacuum tubes he described as being "borrowed" from the Signal Corps, he constructed a radio transmitter that was operated from his home at 1911 Ash Street in Oklahoma City.

In order to provide common standards for the service, the Commerce Department issued a regulation effective December 1, 1921, that stated that broadcasting stations would now have to hold a Limited Commercial license that authorized operation on two designated broadcasting wavelengths: 360 meters (833 kHz) for "entertainment", and 485 meters (619 kHz) for "market and weather reports".

Prior to the January 1923 establishment of the Mississippi River as the boundary, call letters beginning with "W" were generally assigned to stations east of an irregular line formed by the western state borders from North Dakota south to Texas, with calls beginning with "K" going only to stations in states west of that line.

The formal opening of the new WKY was set for November 11, 1928, but the station went on the air several days earlier to carry the presidential election returns as Herbert Hoover won in a Republican landslide.

During the "Golden Age of Radio" that included dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts.

WKY operated from the Skirvin Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City from 1936 to 1951, and was contracted to broadcast live from the Venetian Room from 11:00 to midnight every evening.

By 1952, WKY management had to make a decision about keeping the FM station on the air or increasing the power of the company's new television tower.

WKY continued to top many Arbitron ratings sweeps into the 1970s, even as young people began seeking hit music from the FM dial.

WKY changed its format to country music on May 25, 1984, shortly after station owner Edward Gaylord purchased Nashville radio powerhouse WSM and the Grand Ole Opry.

[17][18] Bus benches throughout Oklahoma City had the purple and white logo declaring "Easy Listening is back, 930 WKY."

In an effort to target Oklahoma City's growing Hispanic population, WKY began airing a simulcast of KINB.

[20] Because KINB was divested as part of the Citadel–ABC Radio merger, the simulcast on WKY was dropped June 12, 2007, and the station began stunting for several days.

[21] On June 20, 2007, at 9:01 a.m., Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, a former sports, and later news anchor on KOCO-TV, signaled the start of "JOX 930 WKY."

From February 2017 to September 8, 2019, WKY was a full-time affiliate of ESPN Deportes Radio, offering all sports programming in Spanish.