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WLOK: History & Overview

WLOK (1340 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Memphis, Tennessee, carrying a gospel music format. Owned by the Gilliam family doing business as WLOK Radio, Inc., the station serves the Memphis metropolitan area. WLOK's studios are located in Downtown Memphis and the transmitter resides in Memphis's Glenview Historic District. In addition to a…

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WLOK topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around WLOK.

Related topics
57
Source areas
2
Connected nodes
59
Extracted relationships
101
Concept neighborhoods
15
Bridge connections
59

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 45 topics
Overview · 12 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Owner
WLOK Radio, Inc.
Broadcast area
Memphis metropolitan area
Call sign meaning
Station was owned by the OK Group from 1964 to 1968, replacing the former WLOK at 1480 AM (1956–1964)
Class
C
Facility ID
24214
First air date
July 29, 1946 (1946-07-29)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How WLOK connects Entity context

The extracted context around WLOK shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, WLOK → April, As, Billy, Black, Black Panther Party, Buckley Jr, Buckley's, By December, Century Broadcasting, FCC, Fort Worth, Harvey Lynch, Houston, In November, July, KYOK, Lathem, Lorraine Motel, Martin Luther King Jr, Members Another extracted example is WLOK → Adding, Art Gilliam, Black, Black Film Festival, Black-owned, Florida, FM, Georgia, Gilliam, Gilliam Communications, He, In, Jacksonville, January, Media Monthly, Memphis, National Black Programmers Coalition, October, Operation PUSH, Over. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

WLOK

Top relations

related to WLOK: OK Group and Starr ownership · 44
WLOK → April, As, Billy, Black, Black Panther Party, Buckley Jr, Buckley's, By December, Century Broadcasting, FCC, Fort Worth, Harvey Lynch, Houston, In November, July, KYOK, Lathem, Lorraine Motel, Martin Luther King Jr, Members
related to Gilliam ownership · 32
WLOK → Adding, Art Gilliam, Black, Black Film Festival, Black-owned, Florida, FM, Georgia, Gilliam, Gilliam Communications, He, In, Jacksonville, January, Media Monthly, Memphis, National Black Programmers Coalition, October, Operation PUSH, Over
related to External links · 7
WLOK → Facility ID, FCC Licensing, Management System, Management SystemWLOK, Nielsen Audio's AM, Official, W285FI
Public license information · 2
WLOK → LMS, Public file
Broadcast area · 1
WLOK → Memphis metropolitan area
Call sign meaning · 1
WLOK → Station was owned by the OK Group from 1964 to 1968, replacing the former WLOK at 1480 AM (1956–1964)
Class · 1
WLOK → C
Facility ID · 1
WLOK → 24214
First air date · 1
WLOK → July 29, 1946 (1946-07-29)
Format · 1
WLOK → Gospel music

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

station memphis whhm radio fm first new shipp 000 format broadcasting 1340 transmitter studios stations khz gilliam license one sold

WLOK relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 101 structured relationships around WLOK. Examples in this analysis include WLOK → Broadcast area → Memphis metropolitan area and WLOK → Call sign meaning → Station was owned by the OK Group from 1964 to 1968, replacing the former WLOK at 1480 AM (1956–1964). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
WLOKBroadcast areaMemphis metropolitan area1.00infobox
WLOKCall sign meaningStation was owned by the OK Group from 1964 to 1968, replacing the former WLOK at 1480 AM (1956–1964)1.00infobox
WLOKClassC1.00infobox
WLOKFacility ID242141.00infobox
WLOKFirst air dateJuly 29, 1946 (1946-07-29)1.00infobox
WLOKFormatGospel music1.00infobox
WLOKFormer call signsWHHM (1946–1964)1.00infobox
WLOKFrequency1340 kHz1.00infobox
WLOKLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
WLOKLicensing authorityFCC1.00infobox
WLOKOwnerWLOK Radio, Inc.1.00infobox
WLOKPower1,000 watts (unlimited)1.00infobox
WLOKPublic license informationPublic file1.00infobox
WLOKPublic license informationLMS1.00infobox
WLOKTranslator104.9 W285FI (Memphis)1.00infobox
WLOKTransmitter coordinates.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…1.00infobox
WLOKWebcastListen live1.00infobox
WLOKWebsitewlok.com1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around WLOK bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Khz, Years and Starr. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • radio station
    • Memphis
    • Format
    • Station
    • Gilliam
    • First
    • Fm
    • Wlok
    • Gospel
    • Ownership
    • Two
    • Fcc
    • Shipp
  • memphis, tennessee
    • Radio
    • Station
    • Wlok
    • Gilliam
    • Air
    • Format
    • Whhm
    • First
    • Gospel
    • Group
    • Ok
    • Ownership
  • memphis metropolitan area
    • Radio
    • Station
    • Wlok
    • Gilliam
    • Air
    • Format
    • Whhm
    • First
    • Gospel
    • Group
    • Ok
    • Ownership
  • downtown memphis
    • Radio
    • Station
    • Wlok
    • Gilliam
    • Air
    • Format
    • Whhm
    • First
    • Gospel
    • Group
    • Ok
    • Ownership
  • memphis press-scimitar
    • Radio
    • Station
    • Wlok
    • Gilliam
    • Air
    • Format
    • Whhm
    • First
    • Gospel
    • Group
    • Ok
    • Ownership
  • liberty broadcasting system
    • Sold
    • Facility
    • New
    • Starr
    • Whhm
    • Transmitter
    • Shipp
    • Wlok
    • Group
    • Ok
    • Programming
    • Gilliam
  • 1480 khz
    • Programming
    • Ok
    • Wlok
    • License
    • Moved
    • New
    • Radio
    • Facility
    • Fcc
    • Ownership
    • Whhm
    • Year
  • gospel music
    • Format
    • Ownership
    • Gilliam
    • Years
    • Stations
    • Radio
    • Wlok
    • Memphis
    • Group
    • Ok
    • Khz
    • Also

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For WLOK, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects WLOK with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
WLOK — History · splits 14 ⟂ 46
WLOK — Overview · splits 47 ⟂ 13

Map overview Semantic statistics

WLOK

Nodes60
Edges59
Triples101
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.033333
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around WLOK to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — WLOK · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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