WAYI is an American radio station

Radio station

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 licensed to Sellersburg, Indiana

Sellersburg, Indiana

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, USA, the station serves the Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

 area.

The station is currently owned by S.C.I. Broadcasting, a division of Cumulus Media.

History

The station was initially licensed as WZZB on 1990-02-01. On 1991-05-24, the station's license was deleted (DWZZB) but was later relicensed as WQKC.

WQKC changed its sports radio

Sports radio

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 format to classic hits

Classic hits

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 on November 20, 2008, after changing call letters to WLCL. The station's former AM simulcast outlet, WQKC

WQKC

WQKC was a radio station licensed to Jeffersonville, Indiana, that serves the Louisville, Kentucky, area. The station is currently owned by Cumulus Media, Inc...

 1450 AM

AM broadcasting

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, continues in the sports format as the Louisville market's ESPN Radio

ESPN Radio

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affiliate.

On August 2, 2010 WLCL and WQKC both went silent after Cumulus decided to cease operations in the Louisville market.

In 2011, the station returned to the air under new ownership as WAYI.