WMTL

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WMTL
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City Leitchfield, Kentucky
Frequency 870 kHz
Branding"AM 870 the moose"
Programming
Format Country music
Affiliations Fox News Radio, Fox Sports Radio
Ownership
OwnerHeritage Media of Kentucky Inc
WKHG
History
First air date
January 17, 1959
Technical information
Facility ID 27024
Class D
Power 500 watts day
Transmitter coordinates
37°30′40″N86°17′15″W / 37.51111°N 86.28750°W / 37.51111; -86.28750 Coordinates: 37°30′40″N86°17′15″W / 37.51111°N 86.28750°W / 37.51111; -86.28750
Translator(s) W280FH (103.9 MHz, Leitchfield)
Links
Webcast listen live
Website k105com

WMTL (870 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Leitchfield, Kentucky, United States, the station is owned by Heritage Media of Kentucky Inc. It features programming from Fox News Radio and Fox Sports Radio. [1]

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History

The station began broadcasting on January 17, 1959. Under license by the FCC under Rough River Broadcasting, Inc., it was Grayson County's first radio station. For its first 29 years on the air, the station broadcast with 500 watts on a frequency of 1580 kilohertz. From 1967 until 1988, all of the station's programming was simulcast over WMTL-FM (now WKHG) at 104.9 MHz. [2] For most of its history to this day, WMTL broadcasts a country music format.

In 1988, the station moved to its current frequency of 870 kHz. [3]

In the early 1990s, Rough River Broadcasting was acquired by Heritage Media of Kentucky, taking WMTL and WKHG with it.

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References

  1. "WMTL Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. 1987 Broadcasting Yearbook, page B-117
  3. 1988 Broadcasting Yearbook, page B-116