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| Broadcast area | |
| Frequency | 1220 kHz |
| Branding | AM 1220 The Word |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Format | Christian radio |
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| History | |
First air date | December 15, 1930 |
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Call sign meaning | Artifact of previous WHK call sign[1] |
| Technical information[2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 14772 |
| Class | B |
| Power | 50,000 watts (unlimited) |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°18′26.19″N 81°41′20.46″W / 41.3072750°N 81.6890167°W |
| Translator(s) | 96.9 W245CY (Cleveland) |
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Public license information | |
| Website | thewordcleveland |
WHKW (1220 AM "AM 1220 The Word") is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, featuring a Christian radio format. Owned by Salem Media Group, the station serves both Greater Cleveland and the Northeast Ohio region. WHKW's studios are located in the Cleveland suburb of Independence while its transmitter site is in neighboring Broadview Heights.
A merger of two separate radio stations in Akron and Springfield that were moved into Cleveland in 1930, this station spent 60 years as the first radio home of WGAR. First under the ownership of George A. Richards' Goodwill Station group, it became a core affiliate of the CBS Radio Network, the originating station for Wings Over Jordan and an early home to comedian Jack Paar. Eventually owned by the forerunner to Nationwide Communications, WGAR transitioned into a personality-driven adult contemporary format in the early 1970s, headlined by personalities Don Imus, John Lanigan, Norm N. Nite and Chuck Collier. Later featuring a country music format in the mid-1980s in an eventual combination with FM adjunct WGAR-FM (99.5), the station changed to sports radio in 1990 as the first radio home of WKNR. 1220 AM assumed WHK (1420 AM)'s callsign and Christian radio format on July 3, 2001, as the result of a complex radio station/intellectual property asset swap, and since 2005 has been known as WHKW.
In addition to a standard analog transmission, WHKW programming is repeated over low-power Cleveland translator W245CY (96.9 FM) and streamed online.
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