WAKY (AM)

WAKY
City Louisville, Kentucky
Branding WAKY 103.5
Slogan Kentuckiana's Greatest Hits
Frequency 620 kHz
Translator(s) 100.1 W261CO (Louisville)
First air date 1958 (as WTMT)
Format Classic Hits (WAKY-FM simulcast)
Power 500 watts
Class B
Facility ID 30798
Transmitter coordinates 38°18′59″N 85°42′08″W / 38.31639°N 85.70222°W / 38.31639; -85.70222
Former callsigns WTMT (1958-2006)
WTUV (2006-2015)
Affiliations Fox News Radio
Owner William Walters
(W & B Broadcasting Co., Inc.)
Sister stations WAKY-FM
Webcast Listen Live
Website waky1035.com

WAKY (620 kHz AM) is a classic hits radio station in the Louisville, Kentucky metropolitan area. It is currently owned by William Walters, through licensee W & B Broadcasting Co., Inc. The station used to share a significant portion of Spanish programming with sister station WTUV-FM (105.7 FM) until WTUV-FM was sold to UB Louisville and became English-language sports radio station WHBE-FM. The original station call letters, under different owners, were WTMT-AM (1958-2010).

The station was assigned the WAKY call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on April 1, 2015. On May 3, 2015, the format was changed to a simulcast of WAKY-FM, rebroadcasting their classic hits format. The WAKY call letters are evocative of the famous WAKY-AM (790 kHz), a nationally influential Top 40 music station in Louisville (under other ownership, including McLendon Radio and LIN Broadcasting) from 1958-1986. Currently, the WAKY-AM/FM studios are south of the Ft. Knox Army Reservation in Radcliff, Kentucky, about 27 miles south of Louisville. The WAKY-AM transmitter and antenna are located in the Oak Park area of Jeffersonville, Indiana.

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