WPKY

WPKY is a radio station licensed to Princeton, Kentucky, United States. The station is currently owned by Beth Mann, through licensee Ham Broadcasting.

History

The station began broadcasting on March 15, 1950 under ownership of Leslie Goodaker, a former engineer at Owensboro's WOMI. He and his wife, Mayme, operated the station for more than first four decades on the air until selling the station to DART, Inc., in November 1993. The station's programming was also broadcast on WPKY-FM from 1969 until that station became a separate entity by becoming a country music station after the 1993 sale.
In 2016, the station and its translator was sold to Tiger Media from Commonwealth Broadcasting. The previous owners took the station off the air in the previous year. It resumed broadcasting under with its current format.
In September 2018, WPKY was sold to its current owner, Ham Broadcasting of nearby Cadiz, Kentucky.