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WNNK-FM (104.1 FM, "Wink 104") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Its studio is located at 2300 Vartan Way, Suite 130, Harrisburg〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WINK 104 Station Information )〕 and its transmitter and broadcast tower are located on Blue Mountain in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format. ==History== The station signed on for the first time in 1962 as WTPA-FM under ownership of Newhouse Broadcasting, owner of WTPA-TV, with a Beautiful Music format.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WNNK Historical Documents )〕 In 1980, the station adopted the "FM104" slogan with a format change to AOR. Newhouse sold WTPA to Foster Media in 1982, who then sold it to Keymarket Communications in 1984. In January 1985, the call letters were changed to WNNK, the station's slogan changed to "Wink 104" and the format changed to Contemporary Hit Radio. Throughout the 80s and 90s, Wink 104 was consistently ranked #1 in the Arbitron ratings for the Harrisburg / Carlisle / Lebanon market. Beginning in the late 1990s, Wink 104 was the subject of a rapid-fire series of mergers and acquisitions. Keymarket Communications sold WNNK to Capstar in 1995. In 1998, Capstar Broadcasting Corporation and Chancellor Media Corporation announced a merger that would result in Chancellor Media owning 463 stations in 105 markets once the deal was completed in second quarter 1999. Chancellor Media later became AMFM, Inc., now the owners of WNNK. AMFM, Inc. was then purchased by Clear Channel Communications in a deal announced October 3, 1999, and valued at $17.4 billion. The merger brought WNNK and WTPA under the same ownership. An interesting footnote to this series of acquisitions is that a substantial percentage of WTPA's on-air imaging and DJ banter consisted of attacks on Wink 104 and its personalities in the years leading up to the Clear Channel purchase. Once both stations wound up under Clear Channel control, the new owners required WTPA DJs to immediately cease all on-air references to Wink 104. As a condition of the Clear Channel-AMFM merger, the United States Department of Justice forced the new company to sell 99 radio stations in 27 markets in United States. Included were four Harrisburg, Pennsylvania stations: WTPA, WTCY and WNCE-FM as well as WNNK. All went to Cumulus Media.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clear Channel-AMFM Merger Gets Approval )〕 In 2001, shortly after the ownership changes, Clear Channel launched WHKF in an attempt to reduce Wink 104's market dominance by stealing the younger portion of WNNK's audience. This ultimately led to Clear Channel's adult-oriented station WRVV taking the overall #1 position in the market; not because of improved ratings at WRVV, but because of decreased listenership at WNNK. Cumulus Media reacted to WHKF by launching their own youth-oriented station, Hot 92, the former WCTX. Although WHKF never approached Wink 104 in Arbitron ratings, it did cause Wink 104 to change formats from Hot AC to AC in March 2002. The logic to this maneuvering was that Wink 104 would continue to dominate the adult demographic, while Hot 92 would either dominate the young demographic or severely cripple WHKF's ratings. From inception until 2003, Wink 104's studios and offices were located in a standalone building in uptown Harrisburg. Due to the consolidation with WTPA, WTCY, and WWKL, as well as the expenses involved with ongoing repairs, the studios and offices for all of the Cumulus Media stations were moved to a single location in an office park in Susquehanna Township (a suburb of Harrisburg). Wink 104 is generally regarded as the original "Wink" station in contemporary radio, and has inspired other stations including the relatively close Wink 108 in State College, Pennsylvania (WIKN) and Wink 106 in Corning, New York (WNKI). Slogans used by Wink 104 include (in no particular order) "four in a row with no talk", "five / six in a row", "long music marathon", "we only stop the music twice an hour", "your 10 in a row station", "the best songs of the 80s, 90s, and today", and "#1 for today's hit music, free money, and fun". Their current slogan is "today's best music". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WNNK-FM」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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