WLOK (Ohio)

WLOK and WLOK-FM

Logo for WLOK, c. 1951.
Lima, Ohio United States
Frequencies	WLOK: 1240 kHz WLOK-FM: 103.3 MHz
Ownership
Owner	Herbert Bly (1936–1938) Fort Industry Company (1938–1951) Lloyd Pixley (1951–1954)
History
First air date	WLOK: December 10, 1936 (1936-12-10) WLOK-FM: September 1948 (1948-09)
Last air date	WLOK: December 8, 1954 (1954-12-08) WLOK-FM: c. 1952 (1952)
Former call signs	WLOK: WBLY (1936–1939)
Former frequencies	WLOK: 1210 kHz (1936–1941)
Call sign meaning	Derived from CKOK, original call sign for CKLW in Windsor, Ontario
Technical information
Class	WLOK: IV (Local) WLOK-FM: B
Power	WLOK: 250 watts (unlimited)
ERP	WLOK-FM: 340 watts
HAAT	WLOK-FM: 175 feet (53 m)
Transmitter coordinates	WLOK: 40°44′51.2″N 84°7′54.3″W / 40.747556°N 84.131750°W / 40.747556; -84.131750

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 1936, 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 Broadcasting, and later majority-owned by famed Ohio State Buckeyes football player Lloyd Pixley. Under Pixley ownership, WLOK-TV signed on at channel 73 as an early UHF station. After Pixley's death in 1954, 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 on December 8, 1954, and transferred WLOK-TV to the lower dial position in April 1955, renaming it WIMA-TV. Now WLIO, the television station continues to operate from the same Rice Avenue facility.