WSON

WSON

City	Henderson, Kentucky
Broadcast area	Evansville, Indiana
Branding	The 500 Watt Purple Blowtorch of Western Kentucky
Slogan	860 WSON
Frequency	860 kHz C-QUAM AM Stereo
Translator(s)	96.5 W243CU (Henderson)
First air date	December 17, 1941
Format	Classic hits
Power	500 watts day and night
Class	B
Facility ID	26946
Transmitter coordinates	37°51′11.00″N 87°32′12.00″W / 37.8530556°N 87.5366667°W / 37.8530556; -87.5366667
Callsign meaning	W HenderSON^[1]
Affiliations	ABC Radio News Westwood One
Owner	Henson Media of Henderson County
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	wsonradio.com

WSON (860 AM and 96.5 FM) is a radio station in Henderson, Kentucky broadcasting a classic hits format. The station is currently owned by Henson Media and features news, sports, weather and music features programming from ABC Radio News and Westwood One, as well as locally produced programming.^[2] The station can be heard during daylight hours in neighboring Evansville, Indiana and Owensboro, Kentucky.

WSON first signed on ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and has been locally owned for its entire history. For most of its first four decades on the air, WSON was a daytime-only station, signing off at sunset in order to protect CJBC in Toronto. However, a treaty between the United States and Canada signed in the mid-1980s allowed WSON and other daytimers, that went off the air to protect Canadian clear-channel stations, to begin nighttime operations as well. WSON must use a directional antenna from sunset to sunrise, with the signal oriented to the southwest.

Recent developments

In July 2010, owner Henry Lackey, the son of station founder Hecht Lackey, announced that he had agreed to sell WSON to Henson Media, which owns WMSK-AM-FM in Morganfield and Sturgis, Kentucky. The deal received FCC approval and was consummated soon thereafter.^[3]

In September 2011, WSON began simulcasting on an FM translator, W243CU (96.5 FM), which is licensed to Sebree, Kentucky. W243CU, which has an effective radiated power of 250 watts, can be heard up to 30 miles in any direction from its transmitter site in the Wolf Hills north of Henderson.

W243CU allows listeners in Evansville and surrounding communities to listen to WSON's programming after nightfall, when the AM station has to adjust its coverage.

References

↑ "Call Letter Origins". Radio History on the Web.
↑ "WSON Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ Stinnett, Chuck. WSON sale planned to Union County station owner. The Henderson Gleaner, 2010-07-12.

External links

860 WSON on Twitter

Query the FCC's AM station database for WSON

Radio-Locator Information on WSON

Radio stations in the Evansville, Indiana market

By AM frequency	730 820 860 1180 1250 1280 1330 1400 1540 1550 1590

By FM frequency	88.3 88.7 89.1 89.5 90.1 90.7 91.5 92.5 93.5 93.9 94.9 95.3 96.1 96.5 96.9 97.3 98.1 98.5 99.1 99.5 100.5 101.3 101.5 101.9 103.1 104.1 105.3 106.1 106.7 107.1 107.5

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550

By callsign	KIG76 WABX WBGW WBKR WBNL WCFY-LP WDKS WEUC WEOA WFMW WGAB WGBF WGBF-FM WIKY-FM WJLT WJPS WKDQ WKPB WKTG WKVN WLFW WMSK-FM WNIN-FM WPSR WQXQ WRAY WRAY-FM WRCY WRUL WSDM WSJD WSON WSON-FM WSTO WSWI WUCO WUEV WVHI WVJC WYIR-LP WYFX WYNG

Nearby radio markets Bloomington Hopkinsville Louisville Marion–Carbondale Mount Vernon Owensboro Paducah Terre Haute See also List of radio stations in Indiana List of radio stations in Kentucky

Radio stations serving the Owensboro, Kentucky market

by AM frequency	730 860 1160 1180 1280 1420 1490

by FM frequency	88.3 89.5 90.3 91.7 92.5 93.9 94.7 96.1 97.1 99.5 101.9 102.7 104.1 105.3 105.7 106.5 107.9

by Weather radio frequency	162.475

by call sign	KZZ61 W293AT WBIO WBKR WCJZ WFMW WGAB WGBF WIKY-FM WIMM-LP WJLT WJVK WKCM WKDQ WKPB WKTG WKWC WLME WNIN-FM WOMI WQXQ WSON WSTO WVJS WXCM

Nearby radio markets Bowling Green Evansville Hopkinsville Louisville Paducah See also List of radio stations in Kentucky

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

AM Stereo radio stations in the United States

The following 87 stations broadcast in C-QUAM AM stereo.

By callsign	KALV KBPS KCLI KCSR KDIA KDTH KDYA KEYZ KGRN KGVL KJAA KJAN KLXX KNRO KQWB KRIB KRML KROS KSET KSIB KVMI KVON KWAL KWHW KWOD KWWJ KXEO KYET KYIZ KYVA KZSJ WAMB WAQE WAXB WBCO WBFJ WBBT WBLQ WCAZ WCNF WCOR WCTC WDIC WDWS WEUP WFAS WGFT WGOL WGSV WGTN WGUE WHIY WHWH WIKE WINY WION WIRY WIXE WKBF WKHB WLNO WLS WLWL WMBD WMCE WMNI WNNC WOAP WPAX WPCC WPCF WPFJ WQLR WQRX WQUN WRDN WRNE WRPQ WRSB WSBM WSLM WSON WTHU WTNI WXYG WYAM WZKY WZZB

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