WLFK

WLFK signed-on for the first time on Monday evening, December 4, 1967, as WIGS-FM on 92.7 MHz. The 3,000-watt station was put on-the-air to provide coverage to areas that were unable to receive the signal of (or received interference with) the 1,000-watt WIGS (AM) 1230 (now defunct). The two stations simulcasted originally.

In the fall of 1976, the FM station changed call letters to WLUF. The callsign was changed back to WIGS-FM on December 18, 1978.[1]

According to a story printed in the Gouverneur Tribune-Press, on the evening of March 24, 1977, the three-story building at 40 Church Street, which housed the WIGS-AM & FM studios, plus the Gouverneur Savings & Loan, a law office and real estate office, was totally destroyed by fire. By 1 p.m. the following day, the station had moved temporarily to the back of the Brown and Storie building, returning to the air just five hours later. One part of the burned-out studio that owner Robert Hartshorn did not replace was the old automated machine, nicknamed "Fred", which apparently continued to work right up until it was destroyed in the fire. "Fred" was not popular with listeners, who preferred live talent, unlike the system, which used pre-recorded shows from the west coast. Work soon began on new permanent facilities for the station, with Hartshorn serving as part of the construction crew at the new site next to the transmitter on Pooler Road. Just six weeks later, the new building was nearly ready, at four times the cost of what it took to put WIGS-AM on-the-air back in 1963.

Beginning at noon on February 25, 1981, WIGS-FM began broadcasting at its current frequency of 95.3MHz in order to make room at 92.7MHz for WPAC (now WQTK) in Ogdensburg, New York.  In later years, the simulcast ended, with the AM side going country and the FM taking on an adult contemporary format.

The station callsign changed to WGIX-FM on July 1, 1988.[1]

In February 1991, both stations suddenly left the air but returned with new owners that fall. The Wireless Works had already owned WSLB and WPAC in Ogdensburg, as well as WZOZ in Oneonta, New York.

In recent years, The Wireless Works formed an all-oldies trimulcast of WSLB/WIGS/WGIX as "FSR Full Service Radio." WIGS signed off permanently in the mid-1990s, and the two remaining stations continued a simulcast until WSLB became "Talk 1400" in the early part of this decade. WGIX became "Oldies 95.3" then "Cool 95.3."

In 2003, WGIX-FM added a 50-watt repeater in Watertown, New York which was formerly used by Majic 103.1.[2] Then in 2008, the station added a 19-watt repeater in Lowville.

On Tuesday, March 9, 2010, the station switched formats to country music, re-branding itself as WLFK, "95-3 The Wolf", and changing the callsign to match.

• WLFK in the FCC's FM station database
• WLFK on Radio-Locator
• WLFK in Nielsen Audio's FM station database