{{Short description|Antiguan media company}} '''ZDK''' is an Antiguan privately owned radio station and media company.<ref>John A. Lent, The Price of Modernity, ''Journal of Communication'', Volume 25, Issue 2, June 1975, Pages 128–135, <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1975.tb00589.x</nowiki></ref><ref>Lent, J. A. (1973). Press freedom in the commonwealth Caribbean. ''Index on Censorship'', ''2''(3), 55–70. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1080/03064227308532245</nowiki></ref> Founded by Ivor Bird in the 1960s, the company commenced operations on 30 November 1970.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=History – Liberty Radio ZDK 97.1 FM |url=https://radiozdk.com/history/ |access-date=2026-02-15 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Knox |first=Paul |date=1 September 1987 |title=For truth and right, 8 Cabinet ministers oppose Antigua PM |work=The Globe and Mail |publisher=The Globe and Mail Inc.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sanatan |first=Roderick |date= |title=An Approach to a Public Communications Methodology for Agriculture |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00086495.1994.11671816 |journal=Caribbean Quarterly |language=en |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=57–73 |doi=10.1080/00086495.1994.11671816 |issn=0008-6495|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The station's transmitter is located on Boggy Peak.<ref name=":0" /> The company is associated with the Bird political family<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Benjamin |first=Milton |date=2007 |title=Antigua's Media: Now and Then |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26758906 |journal=The CLR James Journal |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=151–174 |issn=2167-4256}}</ref> and is considered one of the largest Labour Party-aligned media outlets in the country along with the Pointe Broadcasting Network.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2018-02-09 |title='I am not the owner of Pointe FM"- PM Browne |url=https://antiguanewsroom.com/i-am-not-the-owner-of-pointe-fm-pm-browne/ |access-date=2026-02-15 |website=Antigua News Room |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=26 October 2004 |title=Antigua radio station back on air after dispute with state-owned utilities company |work=Associated Press Worldstream |publisher=Associated Press}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Hillhouse |first=Joanne C. |date=2007 |title=Perspectives on Contemporary Media Trends in Antigua and Barbuda |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26758907 |journal=The CLR James Journal |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=175–184 |issn=2167-4256}}</ref> The radio station is known for its political broadcasting– in the early years of the Observer Radio station, the companies competed to dominate the political talk niche.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
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