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AM was mandated to shut down at sunset. This operation continued until 2002, a few months after Radio Everett president Melvin "Shorty King" Bakner sold both stations to Millennium Broadcasting, which has since been renamed as New Millennium Communications Group. Melvin Bakner's son Martin ("Marty King"), who had worked for the stations since his teenage years in the 1970s, continued working on-air until he was dropped from the staff in January 2002.
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WSKE first went on the air on March 15, 1988, as WSKE-FM, the sister of an AM daytime-only station then operating at AM 1040, which had gone on the air 25 years before. The station, then owned by Radio Everett, Inc., was used primarily as a vehicle to provide listeners with radio service after the
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Since the format split, New Millennium Communications Group has kept the station community-centered, focusing on Everett and Bedford County. WSKE still operates from a studio located at 151 East First Avenue in Everett.
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In 2002, the two stations, which had been simulcasting its longtime country format, were split into their own separate identities. The AM station, which had been renamed
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on May 3, 2000, adopted a news/talk format, while the FM retained the country format and the WSKE call letters.
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Everett, Pennsylvania
Bedford, Pennsylvania
Bedford County, Pennsylvania
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40°0′11.0″N 78°23′58.0″W / 40.003056°N 78.399444°W / 40.003056; -78.399444
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Everett, Pennsylvania
Bedford
Bedford County
Pennsylvania
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