WAKY (AM)

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WAKY

City	Louisville, Kentucky
Frequency	620 kHz
Branding	WAKY 103.5
Programming
Format	Classic hits (WAKY-FM simulcast)
Affiliations	Fox News Radio
Ownership
Owner	William Walters (W & B Broadcasting Co., Inc.)
Sister stations	WAKY-FM
History
First air date	1958 (as WTMT)
Former call signs	WTMT (1958–2006) WTUV (2006–2015)
Technical information
Facility ID	30798
Class	B
Power	500 watts
Transmitter coordinates	38°18′59″N 85°42′08″W / 38.31639°N 85.70222°W / 38.31639; -85.70222Coordinates: 38°18′59″N 85°42′08″W / 38.31639°N 85.70222°W / 38.31639; -85.70222
Translator(s)	100.1 W261CO (Louisville) 106.3 W292FS (Louisville)
Links
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	waky1035.com

WAKY (620 kHz AM) is a classic hits radio station in the Louisville, Kentucky metropolitan area that simulcasts WAKY-FM (103.5 MHz FM). It is currently owned by William Walters, through licensee W & B Broadcasting Co., Inc. The station used to share a significant portion of Spanish programming with sister station WTUV-FM (105.7 FM) until WTUV-FM was sold to UB Louisville and became English-language sports radio station WHBE-FM. The original station call letters, under different owners, were WTMT (1958–2010) with country music and, later, sports formats.

WAKY is also simulcast on FM translators W261CO (100.1 FM) and W292FS (106.3 FM) in Louisville. 100.1 W261CO serves Louisville inside the Interstate 264 (Watterson/Shawnee Expressway) corridor (along with New Albany, Clarksville, and Jeffersonville in Southern Indiana), while 106.3 W292FS serves Jeffersontown and Lake Forest.

The station was assigned the WAKY call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on April 1, 2015. On May 3, 2015, the format was changed to a simulcast of WAKY-FM, rebroadcasting their classic hits format. The WAKY call letters are evocative of the famous WAKY (790 kHz), a nationally influential Top 40 music station in Louisville (under other ownership, including McLendon Radio, Multimedia and LIN Broadcasting) from 1958 to late 1985. Currently, the WAKY-AM-FM studios are south of the Fort Knox Army Reservation in Radcliff, Kentucky, about 27 miles south of Louisville. The WAKY transmitter and antenna are located in the Oak Park area of Jeffersonville, Indiana. They also broadcast UK Football and Basketball games.

External links[]

• WAKY in the FCC AM station database
• WAKY on Radio-Locator
• WAKY in Nielsen Audio's AM station database

• W261CO in the FCC FM station database
• W261CO on Radio-Locator
• W292FS in the FCC FM station database
• W292FS on Radio-Locator
• FCC History Cards for WAKY

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