WWKY
| City of license | Providence, Kentucky |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Evansville, Indiana |
| Branding | Oldies 97.7 |
| Frequency | 97.7 FM (MHz) |
| Format | Oldies |
| ERP | 6,000 watts |
| HAAT | 100 meters (328 feet) |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 67479 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°24′52″N 87°34′23″W / 37.41444°N 87.57306°W |
| Callsign meaning | W Winchester, KentuckY (original city of license) |
| Former callsigns | WHRZ[1] |
| Owner | Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation (Hopkins-Webster CBC, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WAVJ, WPKY, WTTL, WTTL-FM |
WWKY (97.7 FM, "Oldies 97.7") is a radio station licensed to the community of Providence, Kentucky, and serves the greater Evansville, Indiana area. The station is owned by Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation and licensed to Hopkins-Webster CBC, Inc. It airs an Oldies music format.[2] The station derives a portion of its programming from Scott Shannon's The True Oldies Channel from ABC Radio.[3]
The station has been assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission since July 14, 2004.[1]
WWKY was originally licensed to Winchester, Kentucky, circa 1952, and operated on the AM band at 1380 kHz. In December 1983, the station was sold to the owners of WFMI, which was the competing FM station in that city at the time. The new owners subsequently changing WWKY's format from Adult Contemporary to a specialized news format, geared towards Kentucky's horse industry, with a call sign change to WHRS.
From 1989 to 2001, the call letters WWKY were assigned to Louisville, Kentucky at 790 kHz, which had formerly been legendary powerhouse WAKY. WWKY started its run in the Louisville market as a country station. By 1991, however, the format was more a mix of country and news/talk. Music was dropped entirely in 2001, and the station changed its callsign to WXXA.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=67479&Callsign=WWKY.
- ^ "Winter 2008 Station Information Profile". Arbitron. http://www1.arbitron.com/sip/displaySip.do?srvy_id=WI08&surveyID=WI08&band=fm&callLetter=W.
- ^ "Radio Stations". Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel. Archived from the original on July 28, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080728203304/http://www.trueoldieschannel.com/html/stations.html. Retrieved December 19, 2008.
[edit] External links
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WWKY
- Radio-Locator information on WWKY
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WWKY
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