WKLX
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Broadcast area | Bowling Green metropolitan area |
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| Frequency | 100.7 MHz |
| Branding | BG 100.7 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Classic hits |
| Affiliations | Hilltopper Sports Network |
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| Owner |
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| Operator | Seven Mountains Media via LMA |
| W240CP, WBVR, WBVR-FM, WOVO, WPTQ, WWKU, WUHU | |
| History | |
First air date | 2000 |
Former call signs | WAUE (1997–1998) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| 10515 | |
| Class | C2 |
| ERP | 16,000 watts |
| HAAT | 184 meters (604 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°9′19.2″N 86°19′32.9″W / 37.155333°N 86.325806°W |
| Repeater | 99.1 WKYY (Beaver Dam) |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | bighitsbg.com |
| Satellite station | |
| WKYY | |
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Broadcast area | Southern Ohio and Butler Counties, Kentucky |
| Frequency | 99.1 MHz |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| Operator | Seven Mountains Media via LMA |
| History | |
First air date | June 15, 2011[2] (in Morgantown, Kentucky) |
Former call signs |
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Call sign meaning | Bowling Green |
| Technical information[3] | |
| 170956 | |
| Class | A |
| ERP | 1,000 watts |
| HAAT | 88 meters (289 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°21′37.8″N 86°48′14.3″W / 37.360500°N 86.803972°W |
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Public license information | |
WKLX (100.7 FM) is a classic hits–formatted radio station licensed to Brownsville, Kentucky, United States, and serving the Bowling Green metropolitan area. The station is owned by Commonwealth Broadcasting[4] and operated by Seven Mountains Media, under a local marketing agreement (LMA). The station's transmitter is located along Kentucky Route 1749 near the Wingfield community of southwestern Edmonson County; it was the only broadcasting station transmitting from that tower until March 2014, when it began sharing tower space with low-powered television station WCZU-LD.[5]
In addition to its primary signal covering the greater Bowling Green area, WKLX operates a satellite station, WKYY (99.1 FM). Licensed to Beaver Dam, Kentucky, that station's transmitter is located on Bald Knob Road off US 231 in unincorporated southern Ohio County.
History
[edit]WKLX history
[edit]The station signed on the air as WAUE on June 1, 1997. It switched to its current WKLX callsign on July 10, 1998, which is about 11 months and 9 days after its inception.[6] It started broadcasting as an adult hits station using the branding 100.7 KLX. It was branded as Star 100.7 during the mid-2000s.
The current 100.7 Sam FM moniker was adopted in November 2005; along the way after changing their branding to Sam FM, the format changed formats to classic hits through the syndicated S.A.M.: Simply About Music program service from Westwood One originally held by WHHT (106.7 FM).[7] After that service was discontinued, the Sam FM branding was kept even after the station began utilizing the Bob FM service at some point in the 2010s.
In October 2024, Commonwealth Broadcasting and Seven Mountains Media agreed to a station swap of several stations in Bowling Green, and Glasgow, Kentucky, including WKLX.[8]
In April 2025, the station rebranded as BG 100.7.[9]
WKYY history
[edit]WKYY, originally licensed to Morgantown, Kentucky, began as a construction permit on July 23, 2007, with the call sign WWKN, although it would not go on-the-air until 2011. Since its launch, it has served as a full-time satellite of WKLX. The station changed its call sign to WKYY on July 1, 2023, following that stations purchase by Charles Anderson, one of WKLX's previous owners, from Newberry Broadcasting.[10] The new owner relocated WKYY's broadcast license to Beaver Dam, and elected to relocate its transmission facility to a tower just south of that city. WKYY previously transmitted from a tower along Kentucky Route 70 (Veterans Way) in Morgantown. The call sign was changed again, to WBGN, on February 15, 2025;[11] this change was reversed on November 30, 2025; six days later, the WBGN call sign was reassigned to a Munfordville-licensed station as part of that station's rebranding.
Programming
[edit]The station is the flagship station of Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball broadcasts from the Hilltopper Sports Network.[12] WKLX, along with Plum Springs-licensed WWKU are co-flagships for that network's coverage of the university's football games.[13]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WKLX". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ↑ Station Search
- ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WKYY". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ↑ WKLX Facility Record United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ↑ "RabbitEars.Info".
- ↑ WKLX Call Sign History. United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ↑ "Sam Moves in Bowling Green, KY". All Access. November 14, 2005. Retrieved February 23, 2024.
- ↑ Venta, Lance (October 4, 2024). "Commonwealth Broadcasting And Seven Mountains Media To Swap Kentucky Stations". RadioInsight. Retrieved January 11, 2025.
- ↑ Venta, Lance (April 11, 2025). "WKLX Relaunches as BG 100 7". RadioInsight. Retrieved May 10, 2025.
- ↑ "STATION SALES WEEK OF 7/21: A MIRACLE OF A SALE IN SHREVEPORT". Radio Insight. July 21, 2023. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
- ↑ "Form 380 - Change Request". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. January 24, 2025. Retrieved February 15, 2025.
- ↑ 2021-22 Hilltopper Basketball Media Guide, p. 10.
- ↑ 2021 WKU Football Media Guide, p. 6.
External links
[edit]- Facility details for Facility ID 742270 (WKLX) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- WKLX in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
- Facility details for Facility ID 170956 (WKYY) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- WKYY in Nielsen Audio's FM station database