W252CV

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W252CV / WPTQ-HD2
City Bowling Green, Kentucky
Broadcast area Bowling Green, Kentucky
Branding98.3 The Edge
Frequency 98.3 MHz
Repeater(s) Relay/Simulcast of WPTQ-HD2 (105.3-2 Glasgow) and WOVO-HD3 (106.3-3 Horse Cave)
W261BD (FM 100.1) Bowling Green
W251BT (98.1 FM) Glasgow
First air date February 17, 2014
Format Active rock
ERP 250 watts
HAAT 0 meters
Class D
Facility ID 70870
Transmitter coordinates 36°59′08″N86°27′09″W / 36.985556°N 86.452500°W / 36.985556; -86.452500 Coordinates: 36°59′08″N86°27′09″W / 36.985556°N 86.452500°W / 36.985556; -86.452500
Owner Newberry Broadcasting, Inc.
Sister stations WHHT, WOVO, WWKU, WWKN
Webcast Listen Live!
Website 983theedge.com

W252CV is an FM translator station that is licensed to and serving Bowling Green, Kentucky. Owned by Newberry Broadcasting, Inc., it broadcasts an Active rock format, and it is rebroadcast over WPTQ-HD2, a digital subchannel of WPTQ's HD radio signal.

Bowling Green, Kentucky City in Kentucky, United States

Bowling Green is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Warren County, Kentucky, United States. As of 2017, its population of 67,067 made it the third most-populous city in the state after Louisville and Lexington; its metropolitan area had an estimated population of 165,732; and the combined statistical area it shares with Glasgow has an estimated population of 218,870.

Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. Active rock stations play a popular mix of new hard rock songs with valued classic rock favorites, normally with an emphasis similar to Mainstream Rock and Album Oriented Rock on the hard rock end of the spectrum.

WPTQ

WPTQ is a radio station licensed to Glasgow, Kentucky, United States, and serving the Bowling Green, Kentucky radio market area. The station is a classic rock-formatted radio station owned by Newberry Broadcasting, Inc. Its radio signal is transmitted from a tower located along Kentucky Route 1297 in rural western Barren County near Railton, with studios located in the Commonwealth Broadcasting building on the Public Square in downtown Glasgow.

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History

This station began broadcasting on February 17, 2014 as a new active rock station, branded as 98.3 The Edge. The translator-style radio station's HD2 simulcast over WPTQ-HD2 makes WPTQ, which is licensed to Glasgow, the first radio station in the Bowling Green radio market to multi-cast their HD radio signal. [1] the effective radiated power is limited to 250 watts in order to avoid interference with WQXE in nearby Elizabethtown, Kentucky, which is also run at 98.3 Megahertz. As an active rock station, the station broadcasts rock hits from the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and the current decade, with only the biggest acts in rock and roll from the 1970s. The Local Show, which is now run on this station on Sunday nights at 7 p.m. C.T., is a local show showcasing local rock bands in southern Kentucky. [2] Both W252CV and WPTQ are currently the main competitors of Classic rock station WDNS.

Glasgow, Kentucky City in Kentucky, United States

Glasgow is a home rule-class city in Barren County, Kentucky, United States. It is the seat of its county. The population was 14,028 at the 2010 U.S. census. The city is well known for its annual Scottish Highland Games. In 2007, Barren County was named the number one rural place to live by The Progressive Farmer magazine. Glasgow is the principal city of the Glasgow micropolitan area, which comprises Barren and Metcalfe counties.

WQXE

WQXE is a radio station broadcasting an Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States, the station is currently owned by Skytower Communications-E'town, Inc. and features programming from Westwood One.

Elizabethtown, Kentucky City in Kentucky, United States

Elizabethtown is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Hardin County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 28,531 at the 2010 census, and was estimated at 29,906 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2016, making it the 11th-largest city in the state. It is included in the Elizabethtown–Fort Knox, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Louisville/Jefferson County–Elizabethtown–Madison, Kentucky-Indiana Combined Statistical Area.

Since February 2016, the programming of W252CV has also been simulcast at 100.1 Megahertz, on translator W261BD. That translator previously simulcast WKLX's signal. Later that year, the station also began to simulcast over translator W251BT in Glasgow over 98.1 Megahertz.

WKLX is a radio station broadcasting an adult hits format. The station is licensed to Brownsville, Kentucky, United States, 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.

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