WLFK - Station History

Station History

WLFK signed-on for the first time on Monday evening, December 4, 1967, as WIGS-FM on 92.7 MHz. The 3,000 watt station was put on-the-air to provide coverage to areas that were unable to receive the signal of (or received interference with) the 1,000 watt WIGS (AM) 1230 (now defunct). The two stations simulcasted originally.

Eventually, the FM station changed call letters to WLUF. The callsign was changed back to WIGS-FM on December 18, 1978. At noon on February 25, 1981, WIGS-FM moved to its current frequency of 95.3 MHz to make room at Ogdensburg, New York for WPAC (now WQTK). In later years, the simulcast ended, with the AM side going country and the FM taking on an adult contemporary format.

The station callsign changed to WGIX-FM on July 1, 1988.

In February 1991, both stations suddenly left the air but returned with new owners that fall. The Wireless Works had already owned WSLB and WPAC in Ogdensburg, as well as WZOZ in Oneonta, New York.

In recent years, The Wireless Works formed an all-oldies trimulcast of WSLB/WIGS/WGIX as "FSR Full Service Radio." WIGS signed-off permanently in the mid-1990s, and the two remaining stations continued a simulcast until WSLB became "Talk 1400" in the early part of this decade. WGIX became "Oldies 95.3" then "Cool 95.3."

In 2003, WGIX-FM added 50 watt repeater in Watertown, New York which was formerly used by Majic 103.1. Then in 2008, the station added a 19 watt repeater in Lowville.

On Tuesday, March 9, 2010, the station switched formats to country music, re-branding itself as WLFK, "95-3 The Wolf", and changing the callsign to match.