| WKLX | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City: | Brownsville, Kentucky | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Area: | Bowling Green, Kentucky | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Branding: | SAM 100.7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Frequency: | 100.7 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Repeater: | 99.1 WKYY (Beaver Dam) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Airdate: | 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format: | Classic hits | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Erp: | 16,000 watts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Haat: | 184 meters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Class: | C2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Facility Id: | 10515 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 37.1547°N -86.3258°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former Callsigns: | WAUE (1997–1998) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliations: | Hilltopper Sports Network | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owner: | Charles M. Anderson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Licensee: | Commonwealth Broadcasting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sister Stations: | WOVO, WWKU | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Webcast: | Listen Live | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website: | bowlinggreensam.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Embed Header: | Satellite station | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Licensing Authority: | FCC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 as part of a triopoly with Plum Springs–licensed sports radio station WWKU (1450 AM) and Horse Cave–licensed adult contemporary station WOVO (106.3 FM).[3] 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.[4]
In addition to its primary signal covering the greater Bowling Green area, WKLX operates a satellite station: WKYY (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.
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.[5] 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 program service from Westwood One originally held by WHHT, when it broadcast on the frequency now occupied by WOVO.[6] After that service was discontinued, the Sam FM branding was kept even after the station began utilizing the Bob FM service.
WKYY 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.[7] 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 station is the flagship station of Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball broadcasts from the Hilltopper Sports Network.[8] WKLX, along with Plum Springs-licensed WWKU are co-flagships for that network's coverage of the university's football games.[9]