WPKY

Radio station in Princeton, Kentucky
37°7′14″N 87°51′31″W / 37.12056°N 87.85861°W / 37.12056; -87.85861Translator(s)103.3 W277CK (Princeton)LinksWebcastListen LiveWebsitewpkyonline.com

WPKY (1580 AM) is a radio station licensed to Princeton, Kentucky, United States. The station is currently owned by Beth Mann, through licensee Ham Broadcasting.[3]

History

The station began broadcasting on March 15, 1950[1] under ownership of Leslie Goodaker, a former engineer at Owensboro's WOMI. He and his wife, Mayme, operated the station for more than first four decades on the air until selling the station to DART, Inc., in November 1993. The station's programming was also broadcast on WPKY-FM (104.9 MHz, now Providence, Kentucky-based WWKY-FM) from 1969 until that station became a separate entity by becoming a country music station after the 1993 sale.[2]

In 2016, the station and its translator was sold to Tiger Media from Commonwealth Broadcasting.[4] The previous owners took the station off the air in the previous year.[5] It resumed broadcasting under with its current format.

In September 2018, WPKY was sold to its current owner, Ham Broadcasting of nearby Cadiz, Kentucky.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Broadcasting Yearbook. Washington, D.C.: Broadcasting Publications, Inc. 1965. p. B-65.
  2. ^ a b Nash, Francis M. (1995). Towers Over Kentucky: A History of Radio and TV in the Bluegrass State (PDF). HOST Communications. p. 81. ISBN 9781879688933 – via World Radio History.
  3. ^ "WPKY Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  4. ^ "STATION SALES WEEK OF 2/19". Radio Insight. February 19, 2016. Retrieved June 14, 2024.
  5. ^ "WESTERN KENTUCKY DUO TO GO DARK". Radio Insight. July 24, 2015. Retrieved June 14, 2024.
  6. ^ "STATION SALES WEEK OF 9/28". Radio Insight. September 28, 2018. Retrieved June 14, 2024.

External links

  • WPKY in the FCC AM station database
  • WPKY in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
  • W277CK in the FCC FM station database
  • W277CK at FCCdata.org
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