WKJY
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Broadcast area | Nassau County, New York |
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| [[Frequency|FrequencTemplate:Pluralize from text]] | 98.3 MHz |
| Branding | K-Joy 98.3 |
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| LanguageTemplate:Pluralize from text | English |
| Format | Adult contemporary music |
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Call sign meaning | K Joy |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
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| Class | A |
| ERP | 3,000 watts |
| HAAT | 100 meters (330 ft) |
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| Webcast | Listen live |
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WKJY (98.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Hempstead, New York, and serving Nassau County, New York. It broadcasts an adult contemporary music format and is owned by Connoisseur Media. WKJY's studios and offices are located at Airport Plaza in Farmingdale, New York, and its transmitter is located near the Southern State Parkway in Hempstead.
History
Early years
The station first signed on the air on July 15, 1947, as WHNY.[2] It was owned by the FM Broadcasting Company, along with AM sister station WHLI. In 1949 the call letters were changed to WHLI-FM. For its first two decades, the station mostly simulcast WHLI.
Beautiful music
In the late 1960s, the FCC was encouraging AM-FM combos to offer different programming. WHLI-FM began playing beautiful music while WHLI 1100 continued its middle of the road music format. Trying to carve out a separate identity, WHLI-FM changed its call letters in 1975 to WIOK.[3]
In 1980, it switched call signs again, this time to WKJY representing the moniker "K-Joy".
Adult contemporary
During the 1980s, as the easy listening audience began to age, the station switched to a soft adult contemporary format. In the 1990s, the tempo picked up and the format moved to standard adult contemporary music. WKJY and WHLI were acquired by Barnstable Broadcasting in 1984.[4]
Along with WBZO, WHLI, and WIGX, WKJY was purchased by Connoisseur Media from Barnstable Broadcasting for $23 million in 2012. Previously known as "K-Joy 98.3", the station changed its branding to K 98.3 in July 2013. The K-Joy brand was revived on May 17, 2019.[5]
Anti-gay hoax
On February 13, 2014, an anti-gay note allegedly sent by a Baldwin mother in response to a birthday party invite from two gay dads was a hoax carried out by two of the station's disc jockeys. The hosts of the K-98.3 Morning Show, Steve Harper – also the station's program director – and Leanna Karlson, admitted the weekend after that the story was "totally fictitious" and that they fabricated it to "spur a healthy discourse on a highly passionate topic". An apology was posted on the radio station's website.
The statement said that the hoax was perpetrated without the knowledge of the station's management.[6] The fabricated RSVP was first posted to the radio station's Facebook page. The photo of the party invite had been scrawled with a response supposedly from a homophobic mother that included statements such as, "I will not subject my innocent son to your 'lifestyle.'" The radio station's management issued a statement saying it has a responsibility to its listeners to be accurate, and is looking at "all courses of action". The station announced on the evening of February 16 that the two hosts were suspended for one week.[7][8]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Facility Technical Data for WKJY". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Hempstead Radio Stations To Begin Operation July 15
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1976 page C-133
- ^ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1999 page D-301
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."WKJY Returns To KJOY Branding". RadioInsight. May 17, 2019. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
- ^ WKJY statement via Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Venta, Lance (February 17, 2014). "Fabricated Bit Leads to Long Island Morning Show Suspension". RadioInsight.com. Retrieved February 17, 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Radio hosts: Hateful RSVP to Baldwin birthday party was a hoax". Long Island News 12. February 15, 2014. Retrieved February 17, 2014.(subscription required)
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."98.3 hosts Steve Harper, Leeana Karlson suspended after hoax involving birthday party invitation". February 17, 2014. Retrieved February 17, 2014.
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