WNKW
oldies radio station in Neon, Kentucky, United States
WNKW (1480 AM) is a radio station licensed to Neon, Kentucky, United States. The station is owned by Somerset Educational Broadcasting Foundation and airs a Christian format as an owned and operated affiliate of King of Kings Radio.
History
The station went on the air as WNKY on July 1, 1956. On August 31, 2006, the station changed its call sign to WVSG. On April 13, 2009, WVSG became WGCK, taking its callsign from sister station WGCK-FM, and then changed again to WIZD on February 8, 2011. As of July 21, 2015, was called WUKB.
On June 1, 2018, the station changed its call sign to WNKW. It also broadcasts on an FM translator at 105.9 MHz.
The public source identifies “WNKW” as oldies radio station in Neon, Kentucky, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around WNKW, oldies and radio.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7951030. Authority coordinates are 37.198, -82.712. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1480, 1956, 2006 and 2009.
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This entry incorporates text from “WNKW” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.