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| Broadcast area | South Florida |
| Frequency | 99.9MHz (HD Radio) |
| Branding | Kiss Country 99.9 |
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| Language | English |
| Format | Country music |
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| History | |
First air date | September 1, 1965; 60 years ago (1965-09-01) |
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Call sign meaning | "Kiss" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 64001 |
| Class | C0 |
| ERP | 98,400 watts |
| HAAT | 302.4 meters (992 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 25°59′34.8″N80°10′26.4″W / 25.993000°N 80.174000°W /25.993000; -80.174000 |
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| Website | www |
WKIS (99.9FM, "Kiss Country 99.9") is acommercial radio station licensed toBoca Raton, Florida, and servingSouth Florida. It is owned byAudacy, Inc. and airs acountry musicradio format. Its studios are located in Audacy's Miami office on Northeast Second Avenue.[2] Thetransmitter tower is off NW 210 Street inMiami Gardens, shared withWTVJ.[3]
WKIS broadcasts in theHD Radio format.[4] Its HD2 subchannel carries thesports radio programming of co-ownedWQAM. Its HD3 subchannel carries the nationalsports gambling programming as "The Bet". Its HD4 subchannel carriesIsraeli programming.
The station firstsigned on the air on September 1, 1965 as WWOG.[5] It was originally anon-commercialChristian radio station, owned by Homer and Carole Akers. In the 1970s, it was abeautiful music outlet, still owned by the Akers, under the corporate name WWOG, Inc.
In 1979, WWOG was bought by the Sunshine Wireless Company. The new owner changed itscall sign to WKQS-FM, and switched it toeasy listening as "Kiss-FM." The WWOG call letters were later transferred to a new non-commercial religious radio station at 88.1, owned by the Boca Raton Christian School.[6] (That station is nowWAYF, owned by theWAY-FM Network.) The format was switched tocountry music in September 1981.
In 1985 Sunshine Wireless boughtAM 560WQAM.[7] WQAM had been a long-timeTop 40 station but Sunshine switched it to country music. Sunshine now had an AM country station, with personalityDJs,NBC News and local information, as well as WKQS, an FM country station, with less chatter and more current country hits.
In 1988, WKQS changed call letters to WKIS. Around this time, WQAM would leave the country music format, first playingoldies and then switching toall-sports.[8] This left WKIS as Miami's only country music outlet.
TheBeasley Broadcast Group bought both WKIS and WQAM in the late 1990s, but continued the country music and sports formats on each station.[9] The studios and offices were moved to Sheridan Street inHollywood.
On October 2, 2014, Beasley announced that it would trade five radio stations inPhiladelphia and Miami, including WKIS, toCBS Radio, in exchange for 14 stations located inTampa,Charlotte and Philadelphia.[10] The swap was completed on December 1, 2014.[11]
On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge withEntercom.[12] The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on November 17.[13][14]
