WLEZ (99.3 FM) is a

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branded as ''K-Love'', a

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Christian adult contemporary

format. Licensed to Lebanon Junction, Kentucky, United States, the station is currently owned by

Educational Media Foundation Educational Media Foundation (formerly EMF Broadcasting, abbreviated EMF) is an American nonprofit Christian media ministry based in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. EMF is the parent company of K-LOVE and Air1—the world's largest ...

History

The station went on the air October 17, 1979, as WOKH on 96.7 MHz in

Bardstown Bardstown is a home rule-class city in Nelson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 11,700 in the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Nelson County. Bardstown is named for the pioneering Bard brothers. David Bard obtained a l ...

. Befitting its call letters, the first song played on the station was '' My Old Kentucky Home''. It changed its call sign to WTHX on October 2, 2002. On August 4, 2008, the station changed its

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to WKMO, and on June 18, 2022, it switched to WLEZ-FM. In 2015, the station adopted the Nash Icon brand. It later reverted back to its previous name of "KMO Country 99.3". In 2022, Commonwealth Broadcasting filed to sell WKMO, which was renamed WLEZ-FM before the sale, to the

for $410,000. WKMO's programming and call sign moved to the former WVKB at 101.5 MHz. On November 1, the last song on WKMO was “Country Girl (Shake It For Me) by Luke Bryan”. The sale to Educational Media Foundation was consummated on November 1, 2022, and the station changed its call sign to WLEZ on November 10, 2022..

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