Front side: background: orange, lite-orange; Kiss 95.1 logo.
Back side: 'Ace & TJ' promo.
WNKS, known on the air as Kiss 95.1 FM, is a 100,000 watt radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina. It broadcasts at 95.1 MHz from a tower in Dallas, North Carolina, primarily serving the Charlotte metropolitan area. On air programming consists of mainstream top 40 (CHR) music. The station is owned by CBS Radio and formerly served as the flagship for the syndicated "Ace & TJ Show" until May 2011, replaced by "Drex and Maney Mornings" later. The studios are located on South Boulevard in Charlotte's South End and a transmitter is located in Dallas, North Carolina.
In the 1960s, WIST-FM was one of the first oldies stations. SIS radio bought the station in 1972. WIST-FM changed to album-oriented rock with the new letters WRNA, eventually becoming WROQ a.k.a "95Q". With album-oriented rock declining in popularity, WROQ became a CHR station called " The New Q95" in 1984. Late in the 1980s, WROQ evolved into Rock 40.
In 1990, the station returned to CHR as WZZG a.k.a. "Gorilla Radio, The New Z95.1 FM". Later in the year, WZZG became WGKL-FM "Kool 95.1", an oldies station emphasizing 50s music more than Magic 96.1. In October 1991, WGKL stunted with a different format each day, using mostly satellite formats from SMN, and one day even doing all-comedy, before becoming WAQQ "95-Double-Q", a CHR station with an modern rock emphasis. Pure CHR was one of the "choices" listeners were to vote on, but the eventual choice was "none of the above". In 1994, along with a name change to WEDJ "95.1 The Edge", the station moved even closer to modern rock. The switch to the current name, letters and format was made in 1996.
*Kiss 95.1 Charlotte and Kiss 108 Boston stickers
The Kiss logo
Kiss 95.1 uses the same/similar logo as WXKS-FM ("Kiss 108"), a Top-40 station owned by Clear Channel Communications and based in Boston, Massachusetts. This dates back to when both stations were owned by the Pyramid Broadcasting before WNKS-FM was spun off to American Radio Systems, which became CBS, in the late 90s.
This is actually the second station in Charlotte to use the "Kiss" moniker. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, WCKZ was known as "Kiss 102", using a churban format similar to what is today called rhythmic CHR; it is now the Urban AC-formatted WBAV ("V101.9"), another CBS Radio-owned station. Only this "Kiss 95.1" is a Pop station; the moniker was used before Clear Channel trademarked it for its pop stations years down the line.
*source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNKS
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