WGTK (AM)
Radio station in Louisville, Kentucky
WGTK (970 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It is owned by the Word Media Group and airs a conservative talk format, calling itself "970 The Answer". Its studios are on Corporate Campus Drive in Louisville.
The transmitter is on Hamburg Pike in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Programming is also heard on 50-watt FM translator W228EO at 93.5 MHz in Louisville.
History
The Hopkinsville years
The station signed on the air on February 11, 1927, as WFIW, licensed to Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Test broadcasts had been conducted three nights earlier. WFIW was owned by Acme Flour Mills, Incorporated of Hopkinsville with the call letters standing for the "Whitest Flour In the World."
It was a 500-watt station that originally broadcast at 820 kilohertz for the station's first three months until moving to 830 kilohertz. The station's broadcasting equipment at that time was sold by the operators of the defunct WIAR, which operated in Paducah from 1922 until 1924. In the latter half of 1927, it moved again to 1150 kilohertz with 1,000 watts of power.
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