WQYK-FM

WQYK-FM
St. Petersburg, Florida;
Broadcast area	Tampa, Florida
Frequency	99.5 MHz (HD Radio)
Branding	99.5 QYK
Programming
Format	Country
Subchannels	HD2: Country "NuTune Country"
Ownership
Owner	Beasley Broadcast Group; (Beasley Media Group Licenses, LLC);
Sister stations	WPBB, WJBR, WLLD, WRBQ-FM, WYUU
History
First air date	May 1958 (as WTCX)
Former call signs	WTCX (1958–1972)
Call sign meaning	tribute to former sister station WQIK in Jacksonville
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	28619
Class	C1
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	174 meters (571 ft)
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	995qyk.com

WQYK-FM (99.5 MHz, currently branded 99.5 QYK) is a commercial country music radio station in Tampa, Florida. It is under ownership of Beasley Broadcast Group. Its studios are in St. Petersburg (city of license) while its transmitter is east of Palm River-Clair Mel.

History

WQYK signed on the air in May 1958 as WTCX, a 31,000-watt classical music station and the first Tampa Bay FM to introduce stereo sound. It originally broadcast from a tiny studio at the transmitter site at 5750 North Haines Road in St. Petersburg, Florida and was owned by Trans-Chord company. Today, the call sign belongs to a radio station in Wisconsin.

The call letters changed to the current WQYK-FM in 1972, and began its long running country format.^[2] Infinity Broadcasting would buy the station from Lake Huron Broadcasting in January 1987.^[3] Infinity would be renamed CBS Radio in December 2005.

On October 2, 2014, CBS Radio announced that it would trade all of their radio stations located in Charlotte and Tampa (including WQYK), as well as WIP in Philadelphia, to the Beasley Broadcast Group in exchange for 5 stations located in Miami and Philadelphia.^[4] The swap was completed on December 1, 2014.^[5] Shortly after the swap, the station branding was changed from "99.5 WQYK" to "99.5 QYK".