WAKY (620 kHz AM) is a

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radio station in the

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metropolitan area that

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WAKY-FM ''For the original WAKY in Louisville, see WKRD (AM).'' WAKY-FM (103.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to Radcliff, Kentucky, United States, and serving the Louisville, Kentucky area. The station is currently owned by W & B Broadcasting, Inc. Th ...

(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

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station

WHBE-FM WHBE-FM (105.7 MHz, "ESPN Louisville") is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Eminence, Kentucky, United States, the station serves the Louisville, Kentucky and Frankfort, Kentucky areas. The station is owned by UB Louisvi ...

. The original station call letters, under different owners, were WTMT (1958–2010) with country music and, later, sports formats. WAKY is also

on FM

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s W261CO (100.1 FM) and W292FS (106.3 FM) in

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. 100.1 W261CO serves

inside the Interstate 264 (Watterson/Shawnee Expressway) corridor (along with New Albany, Clarksville, and Jeffersonville in

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), while 106.3 W292FS serves Jeffersontown and Lake Forest. The station was assigned the WAKY call letters by the

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on April 1, 2015. On May 3, 2015, the format was changed to a simulcast of

, 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,

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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 Radcliff is a home rule-class city in Hardin County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 21,692 at the 2010 census, and in 2019 the estimated population was 22,914. It is included in the Elizabethtown–Fort Knox Metropolitan Are ...

, about 27 miles south of Louisville. The WAKY AM transmitter and antenna are located in the Oak Park area of Jeffersonville, Indiana.

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FCC History Cards for WAKY
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