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((short description|Sports radio station in Jacksonville, Florida, United States))
((More citations needed|date=February 2013))
((Infobox radio station
| name                = WOKV
| logo                = WOKV ESPN 690 logo.png
| logo_size           = 150px
| city                = [[Jacksonville, Florida]]
| area                = [[Jacksonville metropolitan area|Jacksonville metro area]]
| branding            = ''ESPN 690''
| frequency           = ((frequency|690|[[Hertz#SI multiples|KHz]]))
| airdate             = ((start date and age|1958|10|23))
| language            = [[English language|English]]
| format              = [[Sports radio|Sports]]
| power               = ((val|50000|u=[[watt]]s|fmt=commas)) day<br>((val|25000|u=watts|fmt=commas)) night
| class               = B
| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
| facility_id         = 53601
| coordinates         = ((coord|30|07|56.3|N|81|41|58.9|W|region:US-FL_type:landmark|name=WOKV-690 AM (day))) (day)<br>((coord|30|18|28.5|N|81|56|22.5|W|region:US-FL_type:landmark|name=WOKV-690 AM (night tower))) (night)
| callsign_meaning    = "OK"
| former_callsigns    = WAPE (1958–89)<br>WJKF (1989)<br>WPDQ (1989–94)
| affiliations        = [[ESPN Radio]]<br>[[Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp]]
| owner               = [[Cox Media Group]]
| licensee            = Cox Radio, LLC
| sister_stations     = ((hlist|[[WAPE-FM]]|[[WEZI (FM)|WEZI]]|[[WHJX]]|[[WJGL]]|[[WOKV-FM]]))
| webcast             = ((listenlive|https://www.espn690.com/stream/))<br>((Audacy.com|espn690jacksonville))
| website             = ((url|https://www.espn690.com))
))

'''WOKV''' (690 [[Hertz|kHz]]) is a [[commercial radio|commercial]] [[AM radio|AM]] [[radio station]] licensed to the [[Jacksonville, Florida]], United States. WOKV is owned by [[Cox Media Group]] and broadcasts a [[sports radio|sports]] format from studios in Jacksonville's [[Neighborhoods of Jacksonville|Southside district]] and [[transmitter]]s in [[Orange Park, Florida|Orange Park]] and [[Baldwin, Florida|Baldwin]].

[[690 AM]] is a Canadian and Mexican [[clear-channel]] frequency, on which [[CKGM]] in [[Montreal, Quebec]] and [[XEN-AM]] in [[Mexico City, Mexico]] share [[list of broadcast station classes#AM|Class A]] status.

==History==
((for|the history of WOKV at 600 kHz prior to 1993|WBOB (AM)))

===The Big Ape===
AM 690 first [[sign on|signed on]] the air on October 23, 1958, as WAPE.<ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1960/B%201%20Radio%20Yearbook%201960.pdf Broadcasting Yearbook 1960 page A-131]</ref> It was a [[daytimer]], owned by Brennan Broadcasting. WAPE originally broadcast with 25,000 watts and was required to be off the air at night. In 1963, the station got a boost to 50,000 watts by day and it also got nighttime authorization, running 10,000 watts after sunset; a previous attempt to add 25,000 watts of night power in 1960 was dismissed as contravening the [[North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement]].<ref>((cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1960/BC-1960-06-06.pdf|work=Broadcasting|date=June 6, 1960|access-date=June 6, 2020|title=For the Record|page=104))</ref>

For more than two decades, WAPE operated as a popular [[contemporary hit radio|Top 40]] station, known as "The Big Ape". Comic actor [[Jay Thomas]] started his professional career as the station's morning man.<ref>((cite news|url=https://radioink.com/2017/08/24/jay-thomas-dead-69/|work=Radio Ink|date=August 24, 2017|title=Jay Thomas Dead At 69|access-date=June 6, 2020))</ref> The Brennan family sold the station in 1970 to Stan and Sis Atlass Kaplan for $1.48 million.<ref>((Cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1970/1970-12-28-&-Jan-4-1971-BC.pdf|date=December 28, 1970|work=Broadcasting|page=59|title=Are FCC threats spur to sales boom?|access-date=June 6, 2020))</ref>

Eastman Radio acquired WAPE in 1980.<ref>((cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1980s/1980/RR-1980-08-22.pdf|work=Radio & Records|date=August 22, 1980|title=WAPE Sold To Eastman|access-date=June 6, 2020|page=3))</ref> The next year, despite a rating increase, WAPE flipped to [[country music|country]].<ref>((cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1980s/1981/RR-1981-02-06.pdf|access-date=June 6, 2020|date=February 6, 1981|work=Radio & Records|page=18|title=Street Talk))</ref> Several years later, it converted to a [[Christian radio]] format.  In 1986, WAPE migrated to 95.1&nbsp;MHz (which, at the time, aired a [[rhythmic contemporary]] as WJAX-FM) and relaunched its Top 40 format as [[WAPE-FM]].

===News/talk===
In 1989, WAPE was bought by Genesis Communications, which changed the [[call sign]] to WJKF, and then to WPDQ, and switched the format to news/talk.<ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1991/B-Radio-AL-MT-1991-B&W.pdf Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1991 page B-68]</ref>  The station carried a mix of local hosts and nationally syndicated shows, and was an affiliate of the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC Information Network]].

In 1993, Prism Radio Partners bought WPDQ for $400,000.<ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1994/B-Radio-AL-MT-BC-YB-1994-B&W.pdf Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1994 page B-76]</ref>  The following year, Prism bought talk station [[WBOB (AM)|WOKV (600 AM)]] and [[oldies]] station [[WJGL|WKQL (96.9 FM)]] for $3.75 million.<ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1995/B-Radio-AL-MT-YB-1995.pdf Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1995 page B-83]</ref> The company moved the talk programming and call letters of WOKV from 600 to 690.

[[Cox Radio]] acquired WOKV and several other Jacksonville-area stations in 2000. In 2006, Cox upgraded WOKV's nighttime signal to 25,000 watts after sunset, with a broader pattern, and also added an FM [[simulcast]] on 106.5 FM, formerly WBGB (now [[WHJX]]). This made WOKV one of only a few large-market news/talk radio stations at the time to simulcast on both AM and FM. In 2013, the FM simulcast was upgraded when WOKV moved the simulcast to [[WOKV-FM|the former WFYV-FM]] at 104.5, broadcasting with 100,000 watts; the 106.5 frequency returned to a music format, first as [[soft AC]] WEZI, then as [[alternative rock]] WXXJ, and now as [[urban adult contemporary]] WHJX.

WOKV was the [[Flagship (broadcasting)|flagship]] for the [[NFL]]'s [[Jacksonville Jaguars]] from the team's inception in 1995 through 2013. [[WJXL (AM)|WJXL]] took over that role in 2014.

In 2010, WOKV was added as a Primary Entry Point to the [[Emergency Alert System]] as part of a doubling of the number of designated PEP stations.<ref>((cite news|url=https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/new-pep-station-in-florida-dedicated|first=Leslie|last=Stimson|work=Radio World|date=September 22, 2010|access-date=June 6, 2020|title=New PEP Station in Florida Dedicated))</ref>

===Flip to sports===
On January 2, 2019, WOKV (AM) split from its simulcast with WOKV-FM and changed its format to sports, branded as "ESPN 690" with programming from [[ESPN Radio]].<ref>[https://radioinsight.com/headlines/171812/cox-to-launch-espn-690-jacksonville/ Cox to Launch ESPN 690 Jacksonville] Radioinsight - November 6, 2018</ref>

===AM 690 facilities===
WOKV has one of the strongest daytime AM signals in the Southeast.<ref>((cite web|title=WOKV-AM NEWS TALK 690 - BUSINESS OFC|url=http://www.cylex-usa.com/company/wokv-am-news-talk-690---business-ofc-1820682.html|publisher=cylex-usa.com|access-date=29 March 2013))</ref>  In addition to the [[Jacksonville metropolitan area]], its [[omni-directional antenna|non-directional]] 50,000&ndash;[[watt]] daytime signal covers the Atlantic coast, as far south as [[Melbourne, Florida]], and as far north as [[Cape Hatteras, North Carolina]], an area that includes [[Savannah, Georgia]], and [[Charleston, South Carolina]].  At night, the station reduces power to 25,000 watts and uses a [[Directional array|directional antenna]] to protect [[Clear-channel stations|clear channel]] [[list of broadcast station classes|Class A]] station [[CKGM]] in [[Montreal]] as well as older, high-power stations on the 690 frequency, including [[XEWW-AM|XEWW]] in [[Baja California]], [[Mexico]] and [[CBU (AM)|CBU]] in [[Vancouver, British Columbia]], [[Canada]].

==Programming==
WOKV AM 690's programming is made up primarily of [[ESPN Radio]] shows, with some live play-by-play coverage of sporting events.

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
*((Official website|https://www.espn690.com))
((AM station data|WOKV))
*[https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=49180&.pdf FCC History Cards for WOKV]

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