|
U Of L Sports Network
The U of L Sports Network is the radio network of the University of Louisville Cardinals. It consists of fifteen (15) radio stations in primarily located in Kentucky, but the network serves much of Kentucky and southern Indiana. On-air personalities *Paul Rogers (Play-by-play commentator (men's basketball and Louisville Cardinals football)) * Bob Valvano (Color analyst (men's basketball)) *Jody Demling (Sideline reporter (football)) *Craig Swabek (Color analyst,(football)) *Nick Curran (Play-by-play commentator (Women's basketball) Affiliates Immediate Louisville area Kentucky (outside the Louisville area) Southwest Ohio USA Nationwide U of L Sports Network broadcasts can also be heard via Sirius XM Radio. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the List of cities in Kentucky, most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast, and the list of United States cities by population, 27th-most-populous city in the United States. By land area, it is the country's List of United States cities by area, 24th-largest city; however, by population density, it is the 265th most dense city. Louisville is the historical county seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky, Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. Since 2003, Louisville and Jefferson County have shared the same borders following a consolidated city-county, city-county merger. The consolidated government is officially called the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, commonly known as Louisville Metro. The term "Jefferson County" is still used in some contexts, especially for Louisville neighborhoods#Incorporated places, incorporated cities outside the "Lou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCCK
WCCK (95.7 FM, "K95.7") is a classic country– formatted radio station licensed to Calvert City, Kentucky, United States. The station is owned by Jim Freeland along with oldies stations Benton–licensed WCBL (1290 AM) and Grand Rivers–licensed WCBL-FM (99.1 FM). Programming WCCK broadcasts a classic country music format to the Paducah, Kentucky, area. In addition to its usual music programming, WCCK was previously an affiliate of the Tennessee Titans football radio network, a distinction now held by sister station WCBL. and the University of Louisville Cardinals athletics network. It currently airs NASCAR Cup Series races via the Motor Racing Network History Stice Communications received the original construction permit for a new FM radio station from the Federal Communications Commission on March 5, 1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbertsville, Kentucky
Gilbertsville is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Marshall County, Kentucky, United States. It is the closest village to the Kentucky Dam. The town was relocated to its present site when Kentucky Dam and Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park replaced the former site. As of the 2020 census, the population of Gilbertsville was 332. History Old Gilbertsville The original town of Gilbertsville was founded in 1871 near the Tennessee River as "Clear Pond", named for a nearby lake. In 1874 it was incorporated and renamed "Gilbertsville" in honor of Jesse C. Gilbert, who served as a Kentucky state senator from 1871 to 1875. The town grew to include a bank, several stores, a jail, and a school teaching grades 1–12. It had a population of approximately 300 in 1930.''Marshall County'', by Connie M. Huddleston, Carol Aldridge, and Virginia Smith, Arcadia Publishing, 2005, . Retrieved January 20, 2010. The village thrived because besides the fertile bottomland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calvert City, Kentucky
Calvert City is a home rule-class city in Marshall County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,514 at the 2020 census. History Calvert City was named for Potilla Willis Calvert. He built his home, Oak Hill, in 1860 and around a decade later gave a portion of his land to a new railroad, specifying that a station be built near his home.Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names'', p. 46. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. Accessed 24 July 2013. That station served as the starting point of the town, which was incorporated on March 18, 1871. The railroad station and post office long favored the shorter Calvert, but the Board on Geographic Names reversed its earlier decision in 1957 and switched to the longer form. By 1896, Calvert City was known as a sundown town, where African Americans were not allowed to reside. By 1908, the rest of Marshall County had also expelled its African American residents. During the Ohio River flood of 1937, Calvert City's busi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WVKY
WVKY (101.7 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Shelbyville, Kentucky, and serving eastern portions of the Louisville metropolitan area. The station is owned by CapCity Communications under licensee Southern Belle, LLC. It airs a country music radio format which is simulcast on 104.9 WFKY in Frankfort. The station calls itself "Froggy 101.7 and 104.9," using a frog as its mascot. History The station was assigned the call sign WCKD on April 1, 1989. On July 8, 1989, the station changed its call sign to WCKP; it signed on September 30, 1989. The call letters were changed on August 31, 1992, to WTHQ, on May 17, 2002, to WIBL, on May 29, 2003, to WJZO, on December 13, 2005, to WXTF, on March 21, 2006, to WLPP, and on April 16, 2007, to WKRD-FM. Originally on 101.3 MHz, in 1996 WTHQ swapped frequencies with WMJM and moved to 101.7. The station license was transferred to Aloha Station Trust LLC at the completion of the privatization of Clear Channel Communic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelbyville, Kentucky
Shelbyville is a list of Kentucky cities, home rule-class city in and the county seat of Shelby County, Kentucky, Shelby County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 17,282 at the 2020 census. History Early history The town of Shelbyville was established in October 1792 at the first meeting of the Shelby County Court after local landowner William Shannon agreed to surrender of his property to the community and provide 1 free acre for public buildings. As a result of the grant, Shelbyville, rather than the nearby Squire Boone's Station, became the home of Shelby County, Kentucky, Shelby County.Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names''. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. The agricultural town was situated on the western bank of Clear Creek (Kentucky), Clear Creek at the confluence of Mulberry Creek (Kentucky), Mulberry Creek and near a road between Louisville and Frankfort, Kentucky, Frankfort. The town required new residents to construct a 1½-story log cabin w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisville Cardinals Baseball
The Louisville Cardinals baseball team is the varsity College baseball, intercollegiate baseball program of the University of Louisville, located in Louisville, Kentucky. The program was a member of the NCAA Division I American Athletic Conference for the 2014 NCAA Division I baseball season, 2014 season and joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in July 2014. The Cardinals have played at Jim Patterson Stadium since the venue opened during the 2005 NCAA Division I baseball season, 2005 season. Dan McDonnell has been the program's head coach since the start of the 2007 NCAA Division I baseball season, 2007 season. As of the end of the 2025 NCAA Division I baseball season, 2025 season, the program has appeared in 15 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship, NCAA tournaments and six College World Series. In conference postseason play, it has won two Big East Conference baseball tournaments. In regular season play, it has won two Metro Conference titles, four Big East Conference (1979–20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLRS (AM)
WLRS (1570 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station airing an oldies radio format. Licensed to New Albany, Indiana, it serves the Louisville metropolitan area. It is owned by New Albany Broadcasting Co., Inc. and operated by Pure Media Ministries, Inc. By day, WLRS is powered at 1,500 watts. Because it's on a clear channel frequency, it reduces power to 233 watts at night, to avoid interference with other stations on 1570 AM. WLRS uses a non-directional antenna, its transmitter is on Diamond Place at Potters Lane in Clarksville, Indiana. History The station signed on the air on June 15, 1949, with the call letters WLRP. It went through multiple format changes and call signs during its history. This station is where former NPR and Sirius XM host Bob Edwards began his broadcast career in 1968. In 2008, it became WNDA. On September 26, 2011, WNDA changed its format to talk radio, branded "NewsTalk 1570". On May 25, 2015, WNDA flipped its format to Spanish contemporary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Albany, Indiana
New Albany is a city in New Albany Township, Floyd County, Indiana, United States, situated along the Ohio River, opposite Louisville, Kentucky. The population was 37,841 as of the 2020 census. The city is the county seat of Floyd County. It is bounded by I-265 to the north and the Ohio River to the south, and is considered part of the Louisville metropolitan area. The mayor of New Albany is Jeff Gahan, a Democrat; he was re-elected in 2023. History Early history The land of New Albany was officially granted to the United States after the American Revolutionary War. The territory had been captured by George Rogers Clark in 1779. For his services Clark was awarded large tracts of land in Southern Indiana including most of Floyd County. After the war, Clark sold and distributed some of his land to his fellow soldiers. The area of New Albany ended up in the possession of Col. John Paul. New Albany was founded in July 1813 when three brothers from New York —Joel, Abner, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKRD (AM)
WKRD (790 Hertz, kHz) is a sports radio, sports formatted AM radio, AM radio station in the Louisville, Kentucky, metropolitan area. It is owned by iHeartMedia, and is known as Sports Talk 790AM. The station is best known for being a Top 40 powerhouse in the 1960s and 1970s as WAKY. The station's studios are located in the Louisville enclave of Watterson Park, Kentucky, Watterson Park and the transmitter site is in east Louisville southwest of the Interstate 64, I-64/Interstate 265, I-265 interchange. History 790 AM in Louisville was originally WGRC, and featured a variety of programming, typical of radio in the pre-rock era. In 1958, broadcaster Gordon McLendon, a Top 40 radio pioneer best known for his legendary KLIF (AM), KLIF in Dallas, Texas, purchased WGRC. After stunting with the novelty record "The Purple People Eater", WGRC became WAKY on July 7, 1958, and immediately shot to the top of the Louisville ratings as the market's first Top 40 music station. WAKY (known affec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Sports Network
The UK Sports Network, historically known as the Big Blue Sports Network (BBSN) and also formerly known as the UK IMG Sports Network, is the radio and television network of the University of Kentucky Wildcats men's and women's sports teams. It consists of five over-the-air television affiliates and 44 radio stations in Kentucky and neighboring states. History The radio network was established in September 1968 for the purpose of broadcasting football and basketball games to select radio stations across the state of Kentucky. Prior to this, individual stations in central Kentucky each held their own coverage of the games. The original group rightsholder was Host Communications. Later on, the broadcast syndicator of the UK Sports Network was Sports Productions, a joint venture of Host Communications, CBS television affiliate WKYT-TV of Lexington, and radio stations WVLK of Lexington and WHAS of Louisville. Cawood Ledford and Ralph Hacker were the first play-by-play commen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
