Current Programming
In the fall of 2007, WAKR began to shift the music portion of its format from adult standards to Oldies. Program director Chuck Collins told Radio & Records in October that the station's evolution from standards to oldies would be complete by the end of the year. The change helps fill the gap for the oldies format created in the Akron/Canton area by WHBC-AM's recent elimination of oldies music from its program schedule to become a news/talk station. WAKR commemorated their 70th anniversary in 2010 by revived many of their classic jingles from the 1960s and 1970s, while also airing montages and airchecks from past personalities.
One of WAKR's Sunday morning religious programs, "Uniform Faith" with the Furnace Street Mission, is the oldest continuing Christian radio program in the United States, originally airing on WADC in 1926.
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