The Chester and Lancaster areas of South Carolina have trouble receiving a clear signal from either station.

At that time, when few people owned FM radios, WNOK-FM mostly simulcast WNOK's middle of the road format of pop music, news and sports.

It was mostly automated, playing quarter hour sweeps of instrumental cover versions of popular songs, Broadway and Hollywood show tunes.

In addition, WNOK-FM offered commercial-free instrumental background music on a subsidiary communications authority (SCA) subcarrier channel with a frequency of 23 kHz.

This prevented the station from broadcasting in FM stereo because the SCA subchannel occupied part of the frequency band.

In November 1963, WNOK-FM interrupted its background music service to announce that President John Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, Texas.