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WHOP-FM
WHOP-FM (98.7 Hertz, MHz) is a radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary radio format, format. Licensed to and serving Hopkinsville, Kentucky, United States, the station serves the Clarksville, Tennessee-Hopkinsville, Kentucky area. The station is owned by Forcht Group of Kentucky, Forcht Broadcasting, and is a sister station to WHOP (AM), WHOP. The two stations share studios located at 220 Buttermilk Road on the west side of Hopkinsville. History The station signed on the air as WHOP-FM in May 1948. It was the first FM station to sign on in the Clarksville/Hopkinsville radio market area, and the whole westernmost segment of Kentucky. Paducah's WPAD-FM (now WDDJ) and WKYX-FM signed on in the months after. WHOP-FM began broadcasting as a simulcast of its AM sister station WHOP (AM), WHOP. However, in 1959, the station became a separate operation by changing its callsign to WRLX, and beginning broadcasting an easy listening format. It was the first attempt in Kentucky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHOP (AM)
WHOP (1230 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a news–talk format. Licensed to and serving Hopkinsville, Kentucky, United States, the station serves the Clarksville–Hopkinsville area. The station is currently owned by Forcht Broadcasting. The station's studios are located on Buttermilk Road (known to station management as Dink Embry's Buttermilk Road in tribute to the former on-air personality of that name) off Dawson Springs Road on the northwestern outskirts of Hopkinsville. Its transmitter is located on Witty Lane off Princeton Road northwest of Hopkinsville. History The station first began broadcasting on January 6, 1940. The station was presided by Pierce Lackey, who had operated WPAD radio in Paducah in the 1930s, with Hecht S. Lackey, who provided the opening remarks in its inaugural broadcast, serving as station manager until Henderson’s WSON went on the air in December 1941; F. Ernest Lackey became WHOP manager at that time. In the station's inaugural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In Kentucky
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Kentucky, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WAIA * WANY * WBLG-LP * WCPM * WCYN-FM * WEKC (Williamsburg, Kentucky) * WENS-LP * WFLE * WFUL * WGRK * WIAR * WKYD-LP * WKYR * WLBJ * WLGC * WLKS * WMMG * WMOR * WMTC * WQFR-LP * WQXY * WRLV * WRSL * WSMJ * WWLK * WYAH-LP See also * Kentucky media ** List of newspapers in Kentucky ** List of television stations in Kentucky ** Media of cities in Kentucky: Bowling Green, Lexington, Louisville References Bibliography * (About WHAS and early radio in general) * * * * * * * * External links Kentucky Broadcasters Association Images File:Mr. Sergent dresses in clean clothing early in the morning, turns on the radio for some music "to start the day"... - NARA - 541351.jpg, Radio listener, Harlan County, Kentucky, 1 ... [...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 seven over-the-air television affiliates, two regional sports networks, and 44 radio stations in Kentucky and neighboring states. Except for the Blue/White game, beginning in the 2012–2013 season, all men's basketball broadcasts on Fox Sports South began to be produced by Fox Sports, using their graphics and music. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WKDZ-FM
WKDZ-FM (106.5 MHz) is a radio station licensed in Cadiz, Kentucky. WKDZ-FM is owned by Ham Broadcasting. Beth Mann serves as Ham Broadcasting owner/president. In 2004, Ham Broadcasting moved from their former Will Jackson Road location to a new facility at Broadbent Square in east Cadiz. History The station first signed on the air at 106.3 megahertz on May 18, 1972. It began as a 3,000-watt FM simulcast station of WKDZ-AM for its first 24 years on the air. At that time, WKDZ-AM broadcast a Variety format. In 1986, the station became separate from the AM counterpart, and began broadcasting an Adult contemporary format under the WBZD callsign. Sometime later in that decade, it changed to an easy listening format. In 1991, when current owner Ham Broadcasting purchased the station, its callsign was reverted to the original WKDZ-FM it held as a repeater of the AM station, and it began broadcasting a country format, which remains with the station today. Programming Format a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forcht Group Of Kentucky
Forcht Group of Kentucky ''(pronounced "fork")'' is a group of companies principally owned by Terry E. Forcht, with corporate headquarters in Lexington, Kentucky and Corbin, Kentucky. The corporation employs more than 2,100 people in many companies specializing in banking and financial services, insurance, nursing homes and health care, broadcasting and print media, retail, data and Web design services, real estate and construction. Forcht Group of Kentucky officially changed its name from First Corbin Financial Corporation on November 10, 2007. The company also sponsors "The Forcht Group of Kentucky Center for Excellence in Leadership" lecture series which began in 2005 at University of the Cumberlands, where Terry Forcht formerly taught business. Forcht Bank The largest of Forcht Group's businesses is Forcht Bancorp, which is a management services company for Forcht Bankhttp://www.forchtbank.com/ which has 34 locations in 12 Kentucky counties with total assets of more than $1 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy Listening
Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s. It is related to middle-of-the-road (MOR) music and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non- rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular rock songs. It mostly concentrates on music that pre-dates the rock and roll era, characteristically on music from the 1940s and 1950s. It was differentiated from the mostly instrumental beautiful music format by its variety of styles, including a percentage of vocals, arrangements and tempos to fit various parts of the broadcast day. Easy listening music is often confused with lounge music, but while it was popular in some of the same venues it was meant to be listened to for enjoyment rather than as background sound. History The style has been synonymous with the tag "with strings". String instruments had been used in sweet bands in the 1930s and was the dominant sound tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. Named after King Louis XVI of France, Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians. With nearby Falls of the Ohio as the only major obstruction to river traffic between the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the settlement first grew as a portage site. It was the founding city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which grew into a system across 13 states. Today, the city is known as the home of boxer Muhammad Ali, the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Fried Chicken, the University of Louisville and its Cardinals, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky's six ''Fortune'' 500 companies: Humana, Kindred Healthcare, and Yum! Brands. Muhamma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is a city in Kentucky, United States that is the county seat of Fayette County. By population, it is the second-largest city in Kentucky and 57th-largest city in the United States. By land area, it is the country's 28th-largest city. The city is also known as "Horse Capital of the World". It is within the state's Bluegrass region. Notable locations in the city include the Kentucky Horse Park, The Red Mile and Keeneland race courses, Rupp Arena, Central Bank Center, Transylvania University, the University of Kentucky, and Bluegrass Community and Technical College. As of the 2020 census the population was 322,570, anchoring a metropolitan area of 516,811 people and a combined statistical area of 747,919 people. Lexington is consolidated entirely within Fayette County, and vice versa. It has a nonpartisan mayor-council form of government, with 12 council districts and three members elected at large, with the highest vote-getter designated vice mayor. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cadiz, Kentucky
Cadiz ( ) is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Trigg County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,558 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Clarksville metropolitan area. Cadiz is a historic town located close to the Land Between the Lakes, a popular recreation area. It was a base of Union and Confederate operations during the Civil War. It permits the sale of alcoholic beverages. Etymology William Henry Perrin's 1884 ''History of Trigg County'' does not explain the origin of Spanish name of the town. In May 1820 the county commission chose to use Robert Baker's land as the site of the county seat. He relinquished his stable yard and the surrounding . From August to October, the commission platted the town in blocks and named it as Cadiz. Rennick's ''Kentucky Place Names'' repeats the local tradition that a Spaniard in the surveying party successfully suggested his hometown. The book also thats that "It was definitely not named for the city in Ohio."Renn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to ''hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encompas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WVVR
WVVR (100.3 FM, "The Beaver") is a radio station licensed to serve Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The station is owned by the Five Star Media Group subsidiary of Saga Communications through licensee Saga Communications of Tuckessee, LLC. It airs a country music format. History WVVR-FM went on the air in 1960 as WFOF-FM with several call sign changes through the years including WKSD-FM, WKOA-FM, WYKH-FM, WZZF-FM and WBVR-FM. The station was purchased in 1977 by a group of Hopkinsville, Kentucky investors, with Hal King serving as the manager. WKOA became WYKH – meaning "''Y''our ''K''entucky ''H''ome" – which switched to a solid gold format in 1986 after John N. Hall III bought the station. The next year the station became WQKS "Kiss FM" to reflect a new urban contemporary format. Over time the station programmed beautiful music, stereo rock and contemporary hit radio. The station, known as "K-100", became "Z-100" when the call letters changed to WZZF-FM in 1986. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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