WOKV-FM

WOKV-FM (104.5 MHz) is a radio station in Atlantic Beach, Florida, serving the Jacksonville metropolitan area.

The station is owned by Cox Media Group, with studios on Central Parkway in the Southside district of Jacksonville.

WOKV-FM has approximately an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for most FM stations.

Its effective radiated power was only 3,000 watts, a fraction of its current output, and it simulcast WKTX's middle of the road (MOR) music format.

WFYV began running 100,000 watts, allowing it to be heard throughout Jacksonville's expanding suburbs, from Southeast Georgia to St. Augustine and Gainesville.

On September 24, 2008, WFYV-FM host Gregg Stepp announced he would be leaving the station to take a job in Bakersfield, California, as a program director.

Stepp was then asked by WFYV-FM management to create a bit that would bring some attention to the station before announcing the return of popular morning host Doug "The Greaseman" Tracht.

Well, here's your 15 second notice: Kiss my ass, Cox Radio Jacksonville, and especially you, Bill Hendrich and David Israel!

On that day, at 10:07 p.m., the station signed off with a live version of "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, followed by a minute of silence.

After that, the station began stunting with a 5-minute loop of teasers of potential formats: hot talk as "Raw Talk, 104.5 The Bone", soft AC as "Easy 104.5", country music as "104.5 Brad-FM", urban contemporary as "Power 104.5" and Spanish tropical music as "Caliente 104.5".

Weekends feature programs on money, health, guns, gardening, home repair and the syndicated Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham.

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