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WLOK and WLOK-FM were a pair of radio stations licensed to Lima, Ohio, United States, and broadcast at 1240 AM and 103.3 FM. The AM station signed on in 1937, while the FM was launched in 1948. Both stations transmitted from facilities on Rice Avenue, northwest of downtown Lima.
For most of its history, WLOK was owned by the Fort Industry Company, predecessor to Storer Communications, and later owned by famed Ohio State Buckeyes football player Lloyd Pixley. Under Pixley, WLOK radio signed on a television adjunct at channel 73, WLOK-TV. After Pixley's death in 1953, WLOK radio and television were sold to the owners of WIMA radio, which held a permit for channel 35; it surrendered the licenses for WLOK radio outright in December 1954 and transferred WLOK-TV to the lower dial position in April 1955, renaming it WIMA-TV.
History
WBLY became the first licensed radio station in the United States to be named after its owner, which Bly personally sought.
The call sign changed to WLOK. Storer and Ryan chose the calls to mimic CKOK, a radio station in Windsor, Ontario, that launched in 1931 but renamed CKLW the following year when Graham Spry protested to Canadian regulators.