WKHG

Last updated
WKHG
Broadcast area
Frequency 104.9 MHz
BrandingK105
Programming
Format Hot adult contemporary
Affiliations Fox News Radio, Fox Sports Radio
Ownership
OwnerHeritage Media of Kentucky Inc
WMTL
History
First air date
October 29, 1967 (as WMTL-FM)
Former call signs
WMTL-FM (1967-1988)
Technical information
Facility ID 27025
Class A
ERP 3,500 watts
HAAT 83 meters
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
Links
Webcast Listen Live
Website k105.com

WKHG (104.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a hot adult contemporary format. Licensed to Leitchfield, Kentucky, United States, the station is currently owned by Heritage Media of Kentucky Inc and features programming from Fox News Radio and Fox Sports Radio. [1]

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History

The station signed on the air as WMTL-FM on October 29, 1967. It first served as a full-time FM repeater of sister station WMTL for its first 21 years on the air. [2] It did not become a separate station until 1988, when the FM station's callsign was changed to the current WKHG, and began broadcasting its hot adult contemporary format. [3]

From 1999 until 2012, the station also broadcast the NFL's Tennessee Titans football games from the Tennessee Titans Radio Network.

Programming

In addition to its usual hot AC music playlist, WKHG, along with sister station WMTL are also the main radio outlets of Grayson County High School football and boys' and girls' basketball game broadcasts. WKHG also broadcasts Kentucky Wildcats football and men's basketball games from the UK Sports Network. Syndicated programming includes AT40 with Ryan Seacrest on Saturday afternoons and The Jim Brickman Show on Sunday mornings

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References

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