WNES (1050 AM) is a

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that is licensed to and located in

Central City, Kentucky Central City is a home rule-class city in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 5,978 at the 2010 census. It is also the largest city in the county and the principal community in the Central City Micropolitan Sta ...

, United States. The station is currently owned by Starlight Broadcasting Co., Inc. The station’s studio (shared with sister station

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) and transmitter is located on Everly Brothers Boulevard (

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) near the

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underpass southwest of Central City.

History

On September 8, 1954, Muhlenberg Broadcasting Company was granted a construction permit by the FCC. The station began broadcasting on January 1, 1955, as the first radio station to broadcast in

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. The station was a 500 watt daytime-only station broadcasting at 1600

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. The station reallocated to its current frequency of 1050 kilocycles in August 1960. In March 2013, the station’s owner, Starlight Broadcasting, was renamed Radio Active Media, Inc. The station’s programming was simulcast on the FM dial via WNES-FM (now WEKV) from that station’s 1956 inception until December 1981. In September 2014, the FM simulcast of WNES returned when the station launched a Class D low-power FM translator, W284AO, broadcasting a frequency of 104.7 megahertz with 250 watts of power.W284AO Query on Radio-Locator
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Coverage area

The station’s daytime signal covers Muhlenberg and surrounding counties, plus the

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area. Its nighttime signal coverage is greatly reduced to avoid co-frequency interference with other AM 1050 stations. W284AO signal covers all of Muhlenberg County, along with portions of its neighboring counties.

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