WSRT (106.7 FM) is a country station that broadcasts out of Gaylord, Michigan. The 100,000-watt station was also simulcast on 105.5 WSRJ Honor/Traverse City until 2020. Throughout most of its life, it was best known as a CHR/Top 40-formatted station known as WKPK ("The Peak"). As former owner Northern Broadcast was moving to sell all their stations , the transmitter on 106.7 was turned off sometime during December 2019. A sale of the station was announced in March 2020. History The station began in 1972 as WWRM "Warm 107", airing primarily beautiful music, evolving in 1977 into an easy listening format with a mixture of "B/EZ" instrumentals and vocal adult contemporary hits. The station was the brainchild of John DeGroot and Glen Catt, the founder of the Glen's Markets supermarket chain. The station's first studio was located on the second floor of the Glen's Market in Gaylord. DeGroot bought Catt out, however, and in 1984 he switched the format and changed the call letters from WWRM to WKPK in an attempt to go head-on with the highly successful WKHQ. The new station called itself "107 The Peak" (later modified to "106.7 The Peak" to reflect the increasing prevalence of radios with digital readout). "The Peak" is an affiliate of Scott Shannon's Rockin' America Top 30 Countdown. Throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s, KHQ and The Peak would butt heads in the ratings, mainly due to the two being so close to each other on the dial. By the early 1990s, KHQ was the more-adult station while The Peak, with several countdown shows daily and "Peak It Or Plunge It", a voting show, was the hit for the younger crowd. The Peak frequently also played both alternative-rock and rhythmic tracks that few other CHR stations, even in major markets, would touch, while WKHQ stuck to the proven mainstream hits and played rap hits at night if at all. One memorable liner from this period stated, "If you stop at '106' [referring to the rounded-up dial position of WKHQ, then as now at 105.9 on the FM dial], you haven't reached 'The Peak.' The difference is .7." During the 90s, there was a repeater for the station in Alpena at 102.3FM, that had no on air identifier other than the legal ID ending with "...and 102.3 Alpena." In 1996, DeGroot retired from broadcasting and sold The Peak to Northern Broadcasting,