![]() The baddest sound in town,” wrote one user. ![]() A recent Facebook post in the group “Remember in Little Rock” by KOKY Program Assistant Kimberly Armstrong-Smith received 82 comments with nuggets of history. Now, KOKY carries forward its legacy as Arkansas’s first radio dedicated to all-black programming and an Urban Heritage station, broadcasting as a city-grade station with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 4,100 watts.Īdvertisement Brian Chilson REVIVED FROM THE ARCHIVES: After KOKY’s hiatus, “Broadway Joe” Booker tracked down the original call letters for the station’s rebirth on New Year’s Day in 1998.Īsk folks who came of age from the late ’50s to the ’90s in Little Rock about KOKY, and memories flow. ![]() KOKY began airing again on New Year’s Day 1998, a revival marking both a slight deviation from its AM past and a kind of homecoming. KOKY formally returned to 102.1 FM when Citadel purchased the rights to the call letters and revived them from their place among the discarded. He was adamant about finding where the letters were being used and resorted to lots of digging, with the help of a lawyer, to trace them.Įventually, those discarded call letters were found, unclaimed, in a so-called “dead letters” file, abandoned and forgotten after the gospel station went off the air. ![]() So when Citadel Broadcasting decided in the ’90s to revive its Urban Adult Contemporary presence on a new frequency, longtime radio presence and director of programming at Cumulus Little Rock “Broadway” Joe Booker said he felt that the KOKY letters “would be perfect” as a marker everybody knew and loved. KOKY did disappear for a number of years in the 1980s after its call letters were bought and used by a Sherwood gospel station. ![]()
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