WCKQ
WCKQ is a CHR/Top 40–formatted radio station licensed to Campbellsville, Kentucky, United States. The station is owned by Corbin, Kentucky–based Forcht Broadcasting as part of a duopoly with Campbellsville–licensed rock music station WTCO and Greensburg, Kentucky–licensed country music station WGRK-FM. All three stations share studios and WCKQ's transmitter facilities are located on KY 323 near US 68 in southwestern Campbellsville,
History
WCKQ went on the air in 1965 as WTCO-FM, an FM companion to the daytime-only AM station WTCO, allowing that station to air 24-hour programming. In 1978, WTCO-AM-FM came under the principal ownership of Lowell Caulk. He undertook a drastic change in programming in 1980, changing calls to WCKQ and adopting a rock music format.The simulcast arrangement between the two stations would end in 1979, when the AM station split off into a country music station as WKXJ. George E. Owens Jr. would acquire WCKQ and the again-WTCO in 1985.
In 1997, WTCO and WCKQ were purchased by Commonwealth Broadcasting, owned by Steven Newburry. The two, plus WGRK-FM, would be sold in 2014 to Forcht Broadcasting, owners of the WAIN stations in nearby Columbia, Kentucky.