WULF

{{Infobox radio station

| name = WULF

| logo = 94.3_The_Wolf.png

| city = Hardinsburg, Kentucky

| area = Louisville metropolitan area (southwest suburbs)

| branding = 94.3 The Wolf

| frequency = 94.3 MHz

| repeater = 104.5 W283AK (Elizabethtown)

| airdate = {{Start date and age|1970|6|9}}

| format = Country music

| power =

| erp = 40,000 watts

| haat = 160 meters (525 ft)

| class = C2

| facility_id = 25799

| coordinates = {{coord|37|52|18|N| 86|16|4|W|region:US_type:city}}

| callsign_meaning = Wolf{{cite web|url=http://www.oldradio.com/archives/nelson/origins.call-list.html |title=Call Letter Origins |work=Radio History on the Web }}

| former_callsigns = WHIC-FM (1979–1995)

| owner = Skytower Communications - 94.3, LLC

| licensee =

| sister_stations = WQXE

| webcast = [https://streamdb8web.securenetsystems.net/cirruscontent/WULF Live Stream]

| website = [http://wolf943.com WULF Website]

| affiliations = Premiere Radio Networks
Westwood One

| licensing_authority = FCC

}}

WULF (94.3 FM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Hardinsburg, Kentucky, it serves the southwest suburbs of the Louisville metropolitan area. It is owned by Skytower Communications - 94.3, LLC, with studios on West Dixie Avenue in Elizabethtown.{{cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WULF |title=WULF Facility Record |work=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division }}

WULF is a Class C2 FM station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 40,000 watts. The transmitter is on Sam Dowell Road in Irvington, Kentucky. Programming is also heard on 160-watt FM translator W283AK at 104.5 MHz in Elizabethtown.

History

The station signed on the air on {{Start date and age|1970|6|9}}.[https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1977/C%20Section%20Radio%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201977%20P-6.pdf Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-85. Retrieved Jan. 17, 2025.] Its original call sign was WHIC-FM, the sister station of WHIC 1520 AM.{{cite web|url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=25799&Callsign=WULF |title=WULF Call Sign History |work=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division }} The stations were simulcast and owned by Breckinridge County Broadcasting. WHIC 1520 AM had come on the air two years earlier as a daytimer, required to go off the air at night. For listeners with FM radios, WHIC-FM was able to continue the stations' programming past sunset.

WHIC-AM-FM aired a full service format of local news and information, sports, country music and middle of the road music. In its early years, WHIC-FM was powered at 3,000 watts, a fraction of its current output. It could only be heard in Hardinsburg and adjacent communities.

In 1982, both WHIC 1520 and WHIC-FM 94.3 were acquired by Key Broadcasting, with Terry Forcht as president.{{Cite book|last=Nash|first=Francis M.|date=1995|title=Towers Over Kentucky: A History of Radio and TV in the Bluegrass State|url=|via=|isbn=9781879688933}} On May 24, 1995, WHIC-FM changed its call sign to the current WULF. It began calling itself "The Wolf." It got a boost in power to 40,000 watts, extending its coverage to communities south and west of Louisville. WHIC 1520 was later taken silent.