WKLX
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{{Infobox radio station
| name = WKLX
| logo =
| logo_size =
| city = Brownsville, Kentucky
| country = US
| area = Bowling Green, Kentucky
| branding = BG 100.7
| frequency = 100.7 MHz
| repeater = {{Radio Relay|99.1|WBGN|Beaver Dam}}
| airdate = {{start date|2000}}
| format = Classic hits
| erp = 16,000 watts
| haat = {{convert|184|m|ft|sp=us}}
| class = C2
| facility_id = 10515
| licensing_authority = FCC
| coordinates = {{coord|37|9|19.2|N|86|19|32.9|W|region:US-KY_type:landmark}}
| callsign_meaning =
| former_callsigns = WAUE (1997–1998)
| affiliations = Hilltopper Sports Network
| owner = Seven Mountains Media
| licensee = Southern Belle Media Family, LLC
| sister_stations =
W240CP, WBVR, WBVR-FM, WOVO, WPTQ, WWKU, WUHU
| webcast = {{listenlive|https://bighitsbg.com}}
| website = [https://bighitsbg.com/ bighitsbg.com]
| embed_header = Satellite station
| embedded = {{Infobox radio station
| child = yes
| name = WBGN
| city = Beaver Dam, Kentucky
| country = US
| area = Southern Ohio and Butler Counties, Kentucky
| frequency = 99.1 MHz
| airdate = {{start date|2011|6|15}}[https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_det.pl?Facility_id=170956 Station Search] (in Morgantown, Kentucky)
| erp = 1,000 watts
| haat = {{convert|88|m|ft|sp=us}}
| class = A
| facility_id = 170956
| licensing_authority = FCC
| coordinates = {{coord|37|21|37.8|N|86|48|14.3|W|region:US-KY_type:landmark|name=WBGN}}
| callsign_meaning = Bowling Green
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|WWKN (2007–2023)|WKYY (2023–2025)}}
| owner = Commonwealth Broadcasting
| licensee = Charles Anderson
}}
}}
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[http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WKLX WKLX Facility Record] United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/tower.php?request=site&asrn=1060660|title = RabbitEars.Info}}
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
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.[http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=10515&Callsign=WKLX WKLX Call Sign History.] United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. 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.
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).{{cite web|url=https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/2933/sam-moves-in-bowling-green-ky?ref=search|title=Sam Moves in Bowling Green, KY|publisher=All Access|date=November 14, 2005|access-date=February 23, 2024}} After that service was discontinued, the Sam FM branding was kept even after the station began utilizing the Bob FM service.
=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.{{Cite web|url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/255532/station-sales-week-of-7-21-a-miracle-of-a-sale-in-shreveport/|title=STATION SALES WEEK OF 7/21: A MIRACLE OF A SALE IN SHREVEPORT|date=July 21, 2023|access-date=April 12, 2024|website=Radio Insight|language=English}} The new owner relocated WKYY's broadvast 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.{{cite web |title=Form 380 - Change Request |url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/views/public/fmDraftCopy?displayType=html&appKey=25076ff394938f28019499eaab811d42&id=25076ff394938f28019499eaab811d42&goBack=N |website=Licensing and Management System |publisher=Federal Communications Commission |access-date=February 15, 2025 |date=January 24, 2025}}
Programming
The station is the flagship station of Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball broadcasts from the Hilltopper Sports Network.2021-22 Hilltopper Basketball Media Guide, p. 10. WKLX, along with Plum Springs-licensed WWKU are co-flagships for that network's coverage of the university's football games.2021 WKU Football Media Guide, p. 6.
Previous logos
References
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External links
- {{FM station data|742270|WKLX}}
- {{FM station data|170956|WBGN}}
{{Bowling Green Radio}}
{{Classic Hits Radio Stations in Kentucky}}