WFPK

WFPK

Office in Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
Broadcast area	Louisville
Frequency	91.9 MHz
Branding	Independent Louisville
Programming
Format	Adult album alternative
Ownership
Owner	Louisville Public Media (Kentucky Public Radio, Inc.)
Sister stations	WUOL-FM, WFPL
History
First air date	1954
Call sign meaning	disambiguation of sister station WFPL's callsign
Technical information
Facility ID	38621
Class	B
ERP	6,800 watts
HAAT	236 meters
Transmitter coordinates	38°21′55″N 85°50′24″W
Links
Webcast	Listen Live - direct streaming URL Listen Live - player
Website	lpm.org/music

WFPK is a 24-hour listener-supported, noncommercial radio station in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, broadcasting at 91.9 MHz FM with an adult album alternative format. The station plays national and local alternative music. It is owned by Louisville Public Media.

History

The station was founded in 1954 by the Louisville Free Public Library as a classical music station. It was a sister station to WFPL.

In 1975, the station received the entire inventory of classical music recordings from commercial outlet WHAS-FM (now WAMZ-FM), which had discontinued the format after a nine-year run; that station, which carried little or no advertising, was mainly a public service by then-owners, the Bingham family. In 1993, the Free Public Library and the University of Louisville's WUOL-FM (which had competed against WFPK for classical listeners for some 17 years) joined forces to form the Public Radio Partnership, now Louisville Public Media. At that time, WFPK adopted its current format, with a gradual evolution from traditional genres such as jazz, folk, and blues music toward the present AAA playlist heard most of the week.

Programming

WFPK hosts the weekly series Live Lunch, which features local and national acts performing live in front of a studio audience in the station's performance studio. Guests of Live Lunch have included Tommy Emmanuel, Will Oldham, Alejandro Escovedo, The Subdudes, Jonatha Brooke, The Decemberists, Over the Rhine, The Derek Trucks Band, Amos Lee, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and local Louisville bands My Morning Jacket, The Muckrakers and Digby. In 2007, the station released Best of WFPK Live Vol. 1, a limited-edition CD that contained recordings from the series; the disc was given away as an exclusive premium for new members during the spring 2007 membership drive. Since then, it has released 10 more member-exclusive CDs containing more live songs recorded during Live Lunch and other in-studio performances.

A very popular weekend show, Woody's Roadhouse (12 mid-6am Saturday) specializes in heritage R&B, C&W, Blues, Rockabilly and classic Southern Quartet Gospel.

WFPK, along with its sister stations WFPL and WUOL, presently broadcasts an HD radio signal.

External links

• Official website
• Facility details for Facility ID WFPK ({{{2}}}) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• {{{2}}} in Nielsen Audio's FM station database