WWKY is a radio station

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 licensed to the community of Providence, Kentucky

Providence, Kentucky

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, and serves the greater Evansville, Indiana

Evansville, Indiana

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 area. The station is owned by Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation and licensed to Hopkins-Webster CBC, Inc. It airs an Oldies

Oldies

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 music format. The station derives a portion of its programming from Scott Shannon

Scott Shannon

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's The True Oldies Channel

The True Oldies Channel

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 from ABC Radio.

The station has been assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission

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 since July 14, 2004

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WWKY was originally licensed to Winchester, Kentucky

Winchester, Kentucky

Winchester is a city in and the county seat of Clark County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 16,724 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Lexington-Fayette, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

, circa 1952, and operated on the AM band at 1380 kHz. In December 1983, the station was sold to the owners of WFMI, which was the competing FM station in that city at the time. The new owners subsequently changing WWKY's format from Adult Contemporary to a specialized news format, geared towards Kentucky's horse industry, with a call sign change to WHRS.

From 1989 to 2001, the call letters WWKY were assigned to Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

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 at 790 kHz, which had formerly been legendary powerhouse WAKY

WAKY

For the original WAKY-AM Top 40 music station in Louisville, see WKRD .WAKY is a radio station licensed to Radcliff, Kentucky, USA, the station serves the Louisville area. The station is currently owned by W & B Broadcasting, Inc.. The station's studios are located in Elizabethtown,...

. WWKY started its run in the Louisville market as a country station. By 1991, however, the format was more a mix of country and news/talk. Music was dropped entirely in 2001, and the station changed its callsign to WXXA.