WKLX (100.7 FM) is a

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broadcasting a

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format. The station is licensed to

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, and it serves the Bowling Green media market. The station is currently owned by Charles M. Anderson and is a part of the Commonwealth Broadcasting group of radio stations. Its transmitter is located along

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near the Wingfield community of southwestern Edmonson County, sharing tower space with low-powered television station

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, since Spring 2014.

History

The station signed on the air as WAUE on June 1, 1997. It switched to its current WKLX callsign on July 10, 1998, which is about 11 months and 9 days after its inception. It started broadcasting as an adult hits station using the branding "100.7 KLX." It was branded as "Star 100.7" during the mid-2000s. The current "100.7 Sam FM" moniker was adopted in 2006. Along the way after changing their branding to Sam FM, the format evolved to

Special broadcasts

The station is the flagship station of

WKU Hilltoppers basketball The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers men's basketball team is the men's basketball team that represents Western Kentucky University (WKU) in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The Hilltoppers currently compete in Conference USA. The team's most recent appeara ...

broadcasts from the Hilltopper Sports Network. WKLX, along with

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-licensed

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are co-flagships for tat network's coverage of the university's football games. ''2021 WKU Football Media Guide'', p. 6.

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