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WKFC (101.9 FM) is an
adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...
– formatted
radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...
licensed to North Corbin,
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,
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, and serving the
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and
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area. The station is owned by
Radioactive, LLC Radioactive, LLC is an Ohio limited liability company with extensive business interests in the commercial radio broadcasting industry. It holds many FCC frequency allocation licenses won in FCC spectrum auctions. The sole owner of Radioactive, LL ...
.


History

The station went on the air as WPNS on September 29, 2006. On March 5, 2008, the station changed its call sign to the current WKFC. The station has been attempted to be sold twice in its existence. In 2009, its owner Radioactive filed to sell the station to Lincoln-Garrard Broadcasting under a 2007 option. The deal was never finalized; however, Lincoln-Garrard continues to operate WKFC under a time brokerage agreement. In 2019, Radioactive again moved to sell WKFC, this time to Corbin–based
Forcht Broadcasting Forcht Group of Kentucky ''(pronounced "fork")'' is a group of companies principally owned by Terry E. Forcht, with corporate headquarters in Lexington, Kentucky and Corbin, Kentucky. The corporation employs more than 2,100 people in many companie ...
, owner of three stations in the area. A major change would come to WKFC in September of 2020. The station dropped its
country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
format under the Nash Icon brand in favor of
adult contemporary music Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet ...
, adding the syndicated ''
The Bob and Sheri Show ''Bob and Sheri'' is a syndicated U.S. radio program hosted by Bob Lacey and Sheri Lynch. It is heard in morning drive time. Its flagship station is WKQC-FM "K104.7" in Charlotte, North Carolina. For 29 years, the originating station had been ...
''.


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