WKCT

{{short description|Radio station in Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox radio station

| name = WKCT

| logo = File:WKCT TALK104.1-930 logo.png

| city = Bowling Green, Kentucky

| area = Bowling Green

| branding = TALK 104.1

| frequency = 930 kHz

| translator = {{Radio Relay|104.1|W281BV|Bowling Green}}

| airdate = November 1, 1947

| format = News Talk Information

| power = 5,000 watts day
500 watts night

| class = B

| facility_id = 65589

| coordinates = {{coord|37|1|53|N|86|26|18|W|region:US_type:city}}

| callsign_meaning =

| former_callsigns =

| affiliations = CBS News Radio
Compass Media Networks
Premiere Networks
Westwood One

| owner = Daily News Broadcasting Co.

| licensee =

| sister_stations = WDNS

| webcast = [http://radio.securenetsystems.net/v5/WKCT Listen Live]

| website = [http://www.talk104fm.com talk104fm.com]

| licensing_authority= FCC

}}

WKCT (930 AM) is a News Talk Information–formatted radio station licensed to Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States. The station is owned by the Daily News Broadcasting Company as part of a duopoly with classic rock station WDNS (93.3 FM). Both stations share studios on College Street in downtown Bowling Green, while its transmitter is located along KY 185 adjacent to the Barren River just north of the city. WKCT features programming from CBS News Radio, Compass Media Networks, Premiere Networks and Westwood One.{{cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?call=WKCT |title=WKCT Facility Record |work=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division }}

To complement its AM signal, WKCT operates a translator station on 104.1 FM as W281BV. The translator's transmitter is located along Blue Line Providence Road west of Bowling Green.

==History==

The station signed on the air on November 1, 1947, as Bowling Green's second commercial radio station. The station was originally affiliated with ABC Radio. In the early years, while WKCT struggled in terms of listener support, but their commitment to local news and farm news led to the station's news division winning several Associated Press news awards.{{Cite book|last=Nash|first=Francis M.|date=1995|title=Towers Over Kentucky: A history of Radio and TV in the Bluegrass State}}

The station played an Adult contemporary format, along with at least 10 hours of country music programming per week during the 1970s and 1980s.[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1979/C-All%20%20Radio%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201979-12.pdf 1979 Broadcasting Yearbook, page C-86] It then switched to a news/talk format at some point before 1990.