WPKY (1580 AM) is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...

licensed to

Princeton, Kentucky Princeton is a list of Kentucky cities, home rule-class city in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the county seat, seat of its county. The population was 6,329 during the 2010 U.S. Census. Princeton is home to several notabl ...

, United States. The station is currently owned by Beth Mann, through licensee Ham Broadcasting.

History

The station began broadcasting on March 15, 1950 under ownership of Leslie Goodaker, a former engineer at

Owensboro Owensboro is a home rule-class city in Daviess County, Kentucky, United States, of which it is also the county seat. It is the fourth-most populous city in the state. Owensboro is located on U.S. Route 60 and Interstate 165 about southwest ...

WOMI WOMI (1490 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a news-talk format. Licensed to Owensboro, Kentucky, United States, the station serves the Owensboro area. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and features programming from Fox News Radio, N ...

. He and his wife, Mayme, operated the station for more than first four decades on the air until selling the station to DART, Inc., in November 1993. The station's programming was also broadcast on WPKY-FM (104.9 MHz, now

Providence, Kentucky Providence is a home rule-class city in Webster County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 3,193 at the time of the 2010 United States Census, making the most populous community in the county. History In 1820, Richard B. Savag ...

-based WWKY-FM) from 1969 until that station became a separate entity by becoming a country music station after the 1993 sale. In 2016, the station and its translator was sold to Tiger Media from Commonwealth Broadcasting. The previous owners took the station off the air in the previous year. It resumed broadcasting under with its current format. In September 2018, WPKY was sold to its current owner, Ham Broadcasting of nearby

Cadiz, Kentucky Cadiz ( ) is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Trigg County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,540 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Clarksville metropolitan area. Cadiz is a historic town located close to Lake Ba ...

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