WLCR
{{Short description|AM radio station in Kentucky, US}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2014}}
{{Infobox radio station
| name = WLCR
| logo =
| city = Mount Washington, Kentucky
| area = Louisville metropolitan area
| branding = Spirit & Truth
| frequency = 1040 kHz
| repeater =
| translator = {{Radio Relay|94.9 MHz|W235CZ|Fisherville}}
| airdate = {{start date and age|1955|10|29}} (at 1470 AM)
| power = 1,500 watts days only
| erp =
| haat =
| class = D
| facility_id = 58742
| coordinates = {{coord|38|0|11.00|N|85|40|51.00|W|region:US-KY_type:landmark}}
| callsign_meaning =
| former_callsigns = WSAC (1955–1984)
WBUL (1984–1999)
| owner = LCR Partners, L.P.
| licensee =
| sister_stations =
| webcast = {{listenlive|url=http://radio.securenetsystems.net/v5/index.cfm?stationCallSign=WLCR}}
| website = {{URL|http://www.wlcr.org/}}
| affiliations = EWTN Radio
| licensing_authority = FCC
}}
WLCR (1040 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Catholic radio format. It is licensed to Mount Washington, Kentucky, and serves the Louisville metropolitan area. It carries programming from EWTN Radio and is owned by LCR Partners, L.P.{{cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?call=WLCR |title=WLCR Facility Record |work=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division }}
WLCR is a Class D daytimer station. AM 1040 is a clear channel frequency reserved for WHO Des Moines. By day, WLCR is powered at 1,500 watts non-directional. But to avoid interference to WHO, WLCR must leave the airwaves at night. Programming is heard around the clock on FM translator W235CZ at 94.9 MHz in Fisherville.
History
The station signed on the air on {{Start date and age|October 29, 1955}}.[https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1957/Radio--All-1957-BC-YB.pdf Broadcasting Yearbook 1957 page 126. Retrieved Jan. 10, 2025.] Its original call sign was WSAC and it was licensed to Radcliff. WSAC was owned by the Fort Knox Broadcasting Company. It has always been a daytime-only station. In 1958, it moved to Fort Knox at 1470 AM.{{Cite web|url= https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=66878 |title= History Cards for WLCR|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}} (Guide to reading History Cards)
In its early years, the station aired a Top 40 format. It changed its call sign to WBUL on August 20, 1984, and became an adult contemporary station. WBUL was a former Louisville market affiliate for Rick Dees Weekly Top 40, which was usually heard on contemporary hit FM stations. This lasted for a short time until 99.7 WDJX, an FM contemporary station in Louisville, began carrying the program.
On May 26, 1999, the station changed its call sign to the current WLCR.{{cite web|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=58742&Callsign=WLCR |title=WLCR Call Sign History |work=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division }} It began broadcasting Catholic programming, mostly from the EWTN Radio Network.
The call letters WLCR were once assigned to an AM station in Torrington, Connecticut. That station began broadcasting January 1, 1948, on 990 kHz with 1 kW power.{{cite news|title=Torrington Station Operating on 1 kw|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1948/1948-01-05-BC.pdf|access-date=October 30, 2014|agency=Broadcasting|date=January 5, 1948}}
References
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External links
{{AM station data|58742|WLCR}}
{{Louisville Radio}}
{{Daytime-only radio stations in Kentucky}}
Category:Radio stations established in 1955
Category:1955 establishments in Kentucky
Category:Catholic radio stations
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