WAKY-FM

For the original WAKY-AM Top 40 music station in Louisville, see WKRD (AM).

WAKY-FM
City of license	Radcliff, Kentucky
Broadcast area	Louisville, Kentucky
Branding	103.5 WAKY
Frequency	103.5 MHz
First air date	1967
Format	Classic Hits
Audience share	2.0 (Wi'08, R&R^[1])
ERP	3,500 watts
HAAT	238.9 meters
Class	C3
Facility ID	70495
Transmitter coordinates	37°52′45.00″N 85°43′3.00″W / 37.8791667°N 85.7175000°W / 37.8791667; -85.7175000
Callsign meaning	WAcKY^[2]
Former callsigns	WUOX (1991-1992) WLVK (1992-1995) WASE (1995-2007) WAKY (2007-2014)
Affiliations	Fox News Radio
Owner	W & B Broadcasting, Inc.
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	waky1035.com

WAKY-FM (103.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to Radcliff, Kentucky, USA, and serving the Louisville area. The station is currently owned by W & B Broadcasting, Inc.^[3] The station's studios are located in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

History

The station went on the air as WUOX on 1991-11-01. On 1992-10-30, the station changed its call sign to WLVK, on 1995-07-17 to WASE, on 2007-05-11 to WAKY, and on 2014-12-03 to the current WAKY-FM.^[4]

The WAKY calls and oldies format the station airs are an homage to Louisville's WAKY AM 790, a legendary and popular Top 40 music station from the late 1950s to the late 1970s. The original WAKY had its own stint as an oldies station from 1982 to 1986 and is now WKRD. Prior to adopting the WAKY calls, 103.5 FM also played oldies as WASE "Kool 103.5."

Since former competitor WRKA 103.1 FM dropped its classic hits format in favor of contemporary country music, WAKY-FM is now the only rock oldies station in the Louisville market.

References

↑ "Louisville Market Ratings". Radio & Records.
↑ "Call Letter Origins". Radio History on the Web.
↑ "WAKY-FM Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ "WAKY-FM Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WAKY

Radio-Locator information on WAKY

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WAKY

Radio stations in the Louisville, Kentucky market

By AM frequency	620 680 790 840 900 940 970 1040 1080 1220 1240 1270 1350 1450 1550 1570 1600

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 89.3 90.5 91.9 92.7 93.1 93.9 94.7 95.3 95.7 96.5 97.5 98.9 99.7 100.5 101.3 101.7 102.3 103.1 103.5 103.9 104.3 105.1 105.3 105.7 105.9 106.9 107.7

NOAA Weather Radio frequencies	162.450 162.475 162.5 162.550

By callsign	KIH43 KIH43A KZZ64 WAKY WAKY-FM WAMZ WAYI WAYK WCND WDJX WFBR-LP WFHS-LP WFIA WFIA-FM WFPK WFPL WGHL WGTK WGZB-FM WHAS WHBE WHBE-FM WJIE-FM WKJK WKRD WLCL WLCR WLGX WLLV WLOU WLRS WMJM WMPI WNAS WNDA WNRW WOCC WQMF WQNU WRKA WSFR WSLM WTFX-FM WUOL-FM WVEZ WVKY WXGO WXMA WXVW WZ2523

Defunct	WXBH-LP/92.7

Nearby radio markets Bloomington-Columbus Bowling Green Cincinnati Evansville Indianapolis Lexington–Fayette Owensboro See also List of radio stations in Kentucky List of radio stations in Indiana

Classic Hits radio stations in Kentucky

By frequency	620 860 1490 1570 94.3 103.5 103.9 105.1 105.5 105.7

By callsign	WAKY WAKY-FM WFXY WGHL WLBQ WLGC-FM WRND-FM WSON WWRW WXKQ-FM

By city	Greenup Henderson Louisville Middlesboro Morgantown Mount Sterling Oak Grove Radcliffe/Louisville Shepherdsville/Louisville Whitesburg

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Kentucky See also Oldies Classic Hits

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