WPKY
Radio station in Princeton, Kentucky, United States
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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.[4]
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| Broadcast area | |
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| Frequency | 1580 kHz |
| Branding | WPKY 103.3/1580 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Classic hits |
| Affiliations | Fox News Radio |
| Ownership | |
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| History | |
First air date | March 15, 1950[1][2] |
Call sign meaning | Princeton, Kentucky |
| Technical information[3] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 50637 |
| Class | D |
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Transmitter coordinates | 37°7′14″N 87°51′31″W |
| Translator | 103.3 W277CK (Princeton) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wpkyonline.com |
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.[5] The previous owners took the station off the air in the previous year.[6] It resumed broadcasting under with its current format.
In September 2018, WPKY was sold to its current owner, Ham Broadcasting of nearby Cadiz, Kentucky.[7]
