Frequency | 730 kHz |
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Programming | |
Format | Country music |
Affiliations | CBS Radio |
Ownership | |
Owner | Sound Broadcasters, Inc. (sale to Ham Broadcasting, Inc. pending) |
WKTG | |
History | |
First air date | 1947 |
Former call signs | WCIF (1947–1950) [1] |
Technical information [2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 60880 |
Class | D |
Power | 500 watts day 215 watts night |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°21′31″N87°29′45″W / 37.35861°N 87.49583°W |
Translator(s) | 94.9 MHz (W235AC - Madisonville) 107.7 MHz W299CN (Madisonville) |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | wfmw.net |
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The station began operation in 1947 as WCIF, which was under ownership of Pierce and Dutch Lackey. Two years later, the station launched its FM companion, WCIF-FM, at 104.9 megacycles. However, that same year, Messenger Broadcasting Company, a unit of the Madisonville Messenger newspaper, built and signed on WFMW-FM at 103.1 megacycles, which became Kentucky's first-ever FM-exclusive radio station. In 1950, the Messenger acquired the Lackey-owned station. As a result, WCIF and WFMW were consolidated to become one radio empire; WCIF-FM was permanently taken off the air, while the AM station was acquired to became WFMW to match the callsign of the surviving FM station (now WKTG), which later increased their power and changed frequencies to 93.9 MHz. [1] : 95
On November 19, 1970, the station was knocked off the air due to winds blowing down the station's transmission tower. The AM station returned to the air the next day, but the FM was fed on local cable television by means of telephone line until the FM transmitter was repaired. [1] : 95
The FM station became a separate entity in 1978, when it began broadcasting a classic rock format as WKTG, while WFMW became one of the first stations in western Kentucky to go exclusively country. [1] : 95–96
WFMW remained in the hands of the original owners until being sold to various companies, including Sound Telecasters, Inc. Sound Telecasters sold WFMW and WKTG in June 2024 to Cadiz, Kentucky-based Ham Broadcasting, Inc. for a reported price of $815,000. Once the sale is finalized, Ham Broadcasting will take over operation of both stations, beginning July 1. [4]
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