WKLX

WKLX (100.7 FM) is a classic hits–formatted radio station licensed to Brownsville, Kentucky, United States, and serving the Bowling Green media market. The station is currently owned by Charles M. Anderson's Commonwealth Broadcasting^[4] and leased to Seven Mountains Media, which operates the station. The station's transmitter is located along Kentucky Route 1749 near the Wingfield community of southwestern Edmonson County; it was the only broadcasting station transmitting from that tower until March 2014, when it began sharing tower space with low-powered television station WCZU-LD.^[5]

WKLX

Brownsville, Kentucky United States
Broadcast area	Bowling Green, Kentucky
Frequency	100.7 MHz
Branding	BG 100.7
Programming
Format	Classic hits
Affiliations	Hilltopper Sports Network
Ownership
Owner	Seven Mountains Media (Southern Belle Media Family, LLC)
Sister stations	W240CP, WBVR, WBVR-FM, WOVO, WPTQ, WWKU, WUHU
History
First air date	2000 (2000)
Former call signs	WAUE (1997–1998)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	10515
Class	C2
ERP	16,000 watts
HAAT	184 meters (604 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	37°9′19.2″N 86°19′32.9″W
Repeater(s)	99.1 WBGN (Beaver Dam)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen live
Website	bighitsbg.com
Satellite station
WBGN
Beaver Dam, Kentucky United States
Broadcast area	Southern Ohio and Butler Counties, Kentucky
Frequency	99.1 MHz
Ownership
Owner	Commonwealth Broadcasting (Charles Anderson)
History
First air date	June 15, 2011 (2011-06-15)[2] (in Morgantown, Kentucky)
Former call signs	WWKN (2007–2023) WKYY (2023–2025)
Call sign meaning	Bowling Green
Technical information[3]
Facility ID	170956
Class	A
ERP	1,000 watts
HAAT	88 meters (289 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	37°21′37.8″N 86°48′14.3″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS

In addition to its primary signal covering the greater Bowling Green area, WKLX operates a satellite station, WBGN (99.1 FM). Licensed to Beaver Dam, Kentucky, that station's transmitter is located on Bald Knob Road off US 231 in unincorporated southern Ohio County.

History

WKLX history

The station signed on the air as WAUE on June 1, 1997. It switched to its current WKLX callsign on July 10, 1998, which is about 11 months and 9 days after its inception.^[6] It started broadcasting as an adult hits station using the branding 100.7 KLX. It was branded as Star 100.7 during the mid-2000s.

Logo used under the Sam 100.7 branding (2005–2025)

The current 100.7 Sam FM moniker was adopted in November 2005; along the way after changing their branding to Sam FM, the format changed formats to classic hits through the syndicated S.A.M.: Simply About Music program service from Westwood One originally held by WHHT (106.7 FM).^[7] After that service was discontinued, the Sam FM branding was kept even after the station began utilizing the Bob FM service at some point in the 2010s.

In April 2025, the station rebranded as BG 100.7, following the lease of the station to Seven Mountains Media.^[8]

WBGN history

WBGN began as a construction permit in 2008 with the call sign WWKN, although it would not go on-the-air until 2011. Since its launch, it has served as a full-time satellite of WKLX. The station changed its call sign to WKYY on July 1, 2023, following that stations purchase by Charles Anderson, one of WKLX's previous owners, from Newberry Broadcasting.^[9] The new owner relocated WKYY's broadcast license to Beaver Dam, and elected to relocate its transmission facility to a tower just south of that city. WKYY previously transmitted from a tower along Kentucky Route 70 (Veterans Way) in Morgantown. The call sign was changed again, to WBGN, on February 15, 2025.^[10]

Programming

The station is the flagship station of Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball broadcasts from the Hilltopper Sports Network.^[11] WKLX, along with Plum Springs-licensed WWKU are co-flagships for that network's coverage of the university's football games.^[12]