WKJK

WKJK
City of license Louisville, Kentucky
Branding Talkradio 1080
Frequency 1080 kHz
First air date 1948 (as WKLO)[1]
Format News Talk Information
Power 10,000 watts day
1,000 watts night
Class B
Facility ID 55497
Transmitter coordinates 38°18′29.00″N 85°49′45.00″W / 38.3080556°N 85.8291667°W / 38.3080556; -85.8291667
Former callsigns WWSN (1993-1993)
WDJX (1993-1994)
WRES (1994-1995)
WHKM (1995-1996)
Affiliations ABC Radio, CBS Radio, Premiere Radio Networks
Owner iHeartMedia, Inc.
(CC Licenses, LLC)
Sister stations WTFX-FM, WQMF (FM), WAMZ (FM), WNRW (FM), WLGX (FM), WKRD (AM), WHAS (AM)
Webcast Listen Live
Website talkradio1080.com

WKJK (1080 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Louisville, Kentucky, USA, the station serves the Louisville area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and features programming from ABC Radio, CBS Radio and Premiere Radio Networks.[2] The station's studios are located in the Louisville enclave of Watterson Park and the transmitter site is in New Albany, Indiana.

WKJK broadcasts in HD.[3]

History

For most of its early years, the station was known as WKLO, owned by Dayton, Ohio-based Great Trails Broadcasting, which also owned several other Top 40 outlets in Ohio including WING, WIZE, WCOL (AM), WCOL-FM (also known as 92X WXGT throughout most of the 1980s) and WGTZ. WKLO provided competition to the original WAKY-790 (now WKRD (AM).) In 1979, it became WKJJ-AM, a 24/7 delayed broadcast of its FM sister WKJJ-FM (99.7 FM), which is now WDJX. Afterward, it became WCII with several formats, most notably country. The station was assigned the call letters WWSN on 1993-05-15. On 1993-10-15, the station changed its call sign to WDJX; on 1994-10-31 to WRES; on 1995-07-17 to WHKM, and on 1996-09-27 to the current WKJK.[4]

Programming

WKJK's weekly lineup includes The Wall Street Journal This Morning, The Leach Report, Kentucky Sports Radio (a local program dedicated to University of Kentucky sports), The Dave Ramsey Show (partly live, and partly tape-delayed), and The Sean Hannity Show (on a one-hour delay, and also rebroadcast in the 1–4 am slot the following overnight).

As a sister station of WHAS, it is a secondary home for University of Kentucky sports; it carries women's basketball and baseball games.

References

  1. ↑ "The Encyclopedia of Louisville".
  2. ↑ "WKJK Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ "HD Radio station guide for Louisville, KY".
  4. ↑ "WKJK Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.

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