WPKY

WPKY (1580 AM) is a radio station licensed to Princeton, Kentucky, United States. The station is currently owned by Beth Mann, through licensee Ham Broadcasting.^[4]

WPKY

Princeton, Kentucky
Broadcast area	Eddyville, Kentucky Providence, Kentucky
Frequency	1580 kHz
Branding	WPKY 103.3/1580
Programming
Format	Classic hits
Affiliations	Fox News Radio
Ownership
Owner	Beth Mann (Ham Broadcasting Company, Inc.)
History
First air date	March 15, 1950; 75 years ago (1950-03-15)[1][2]
Call sign meaning	Princeton, Kentucky
Technical information[3]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	50637
Class	D
Power	250 watts day 9 watts night
Transmitter coordinates	37°7′14″N 87°51′31″W
Translator(s)	103.3 W277CK (Princeton)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	wpkyonline.com

History

The station began broadcasting on March 15, 1950^[1] under ownership of Leslie Goodaker, a former engineer at Owensboro's WOMI. 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-based WWKY-FM) from 1969 until that station became a separate entity by becoming a country music station after the 1993 sale.^[2]

In 2016, the station and its translator was sold to Tiger Media from Commonwealth Broadcasting.^[5] The previous owners took the station off the air in the previous year.^[6] It resumed broadcasting under with its current format.

In September 2018, WPKY was sold to its current owner, Ham Broadcasting of nearby Cadiz, Kentucky.^[7]