WLIK – WLIK

1270 WLIK plays the songs you remember from the 50′s, 60′s and through the 80″s by the stars who made them famous. See our programming selection for more information.Coverage1270 WLIK’s 5000 watt signal covers Cocke County and surrounding counties in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina including: Hamblen, Greene, Sevier, Jefferson, Grainger, Hawkins, Madison, Haywood and Swain. WLIK is licensed to Newport, Tennessee. See our coverage map for more details.1270 AM WLIK is owned by WLIK, Inc., a family owned business for over fifty years. Dwight Wilkerson is principal stockholder. See our history below for more information.HistoryThe radio industry was just a babe compared to other media such as magazines and newspapers. It was in 1954, hardly 30 years old as an industry, when a Lenoir City lumberman, Arthur Wilkerson, requested a grant from the Federal Communication Commission to build a radio station in Newport and Cocke County. Radio was still regarded as a novelty by ma