WLOC

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WLOC
Broadcast area Bowling Green, Kentucky
Frequency 1150 kHz
BrandingStudio 101
Programming
Format Variety
Ownership
OwnerForbis Communications, Inc.
History
First air date
June 12, 1956;69 years ago (1956-06-12) [1]
Call sign meaning
"We love our caves"
Technical information [2]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 58352
Class D
Power 1,000 watts day
61 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
 37°16′9″N85°54′56″W / 37.26917°N 85.91556°W / 37.26917; -85.91556
Translator 101.7 W269DD (Munfordville)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website wloconline.com

WLOC (AM 1150 / FM 101.7 Translator) is a radio station broadcasting a variety format. Licensed to Munfordville, Kentucky, United States, the station is located Horse Cave, Kentucky, USA and serves surrounding cities and counties.

Contents

The station is currently owned by Forbis Communications, Inc. [3]

History

The station signed on the air on June 12, 1956, under ownership of South Central Broadcasting Company of Campbellsville. Stock in the station's parent company was sold to then-mayor of Munfordville Jim Berry in 1960; Berry would sign on WLOC-FM (102.3 MHz, now WLLI) four years later. [1] : 131 

Following Berry's death in 1992, the station was obtained at auction by South Central Holding Company, and went silent due to financial and legal difficulties. [1] : 131  The station was purchased by the South Central Kentucky Broadcasting Company in February 1993. [4]

On July 28, 1998, WLOC was acquired by Hart County Communications, [5] while its FM sister station was acquired by Royse Radio of Glasgow in March of that year. WLOC's current owner, Forbis Communications, acquired the station in December 2003. [6]

In January 2016, Forbis Communications purchased Central City-based low-powered FM translator W278AD from Heartland Ministries. [7] A few months later, that translator, which was relocated to Munfordville, was relaunched as W269DD, to simulcast WLOC's AM radio programming at 101.7 megahertz.

Notable guests at the station

During the early 1990s, southern rock band The Kentucky Headhunters, originally from neighboring Metcalfe County, Kentucky, made regular appearances on WLOC's local talent program, Chittlin' Time. In 1991, the band also recorded a music video for their hit single, Chittlin' Time, at the station's studio. [1] : 131  [8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Nash, Francis M. (1995). Towers Over Kentucky: A History of Radio and TV in the Bluegrass State. ISBN   9781879688933.
  2. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WLOC". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ↑ "WLOC Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  4. ↑ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1994, page B152.
  5. ↑ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1999, page D183.
  6. ↑ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2009, page D243.
  7. ↑ Venta, Lance (January 15, 2016). "Station Sales Week of 1/15". RadioInsight. Retrieved January 1, 2026.
  8. ↑ "Melissa Johnston to be in Headhunters' video". Grayson County News-Gazette . July 29, 1991. p. 8.
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