WLGK (FM)
WLGK is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station licensed to New Albany, Indiana, and serving the Louisville metropolitan area. WLGK is owned by the Word Media Group, and airs a worship music format known as "The Sound". It is simulcast with 105.5 WLVK in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
WLGK has an effective radiated power of 3,300 watts. The transmitter is on Corydon Pike in Maplewood, Indiana, near Indiana State Road 62.
History
The station signed on the air in 1995. Its original call sign was WAJE. In 2002, the station became a sister station to WFIA after being acquired by the Salem Media Group, the largest Christian radio company in the U.S. It mostly simulcast the Christian talk and teaching programming of WFIA.On December 22, 2016, the Salem Media Group announced that it would hand operation of its Louisville radio stations, including WFIA-FM, to the Word Broadcasting Network under a time brokerage agreement. Word Broadcasting ended WFIA-FM's simulcast of WFIA AM, with the AM station changing to a simulcast of Word's contemporary Christian station WJIE-FM.
On February 10, 2020, Word Broadcasting announced that it would take advantage of the option in its agreement to acquire the stations from Salem for $4 million. The sale was completed on May 25, 2022.
On August 7, 2023, WFIA-FM changed its format from Christian talk and teaching to worship music, branded as "94.7 The Sound". It switched its call sign to WLGK on August 10. Programming is simulcast in Fort Knox, Kentucky, on WLVK, which had launched the format in February 2023 under a local marketing agreement.