WLKY-TV is a television station located in Louisville, Kentucky, USA which is an affiliate of the CBS television network and serves the Louisville area and southeastern Indiana. The station is owned by the Hearst Corporation, and WLKY's transmitter is located north of Louisville in Floyds Knobs, Indiana.
The station signed on September 16, 1961 as a full-time ABC affiliate. Previously, the ABC affiliation in Louisville was shared between NBC affi...
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WLKY-TV is a television station located in Louisville, Kentucky, USA which is an affiliate of the CBS television network and serves the Louisville area and southeastern Indiana. The station is owned by the Hearst Corporation, and WLKY's transmitter is located north of Louisville in Floyds Knobs, Indiana.
The station signed on September 16, 1961 as a full-time ABC affiliate. Previously, the ABC affiliation in Louisville was shared between NBC affiliate WAVE-TV and then-CBS affiliate WHAS-TV.
WLKY was founded by a local group, Kentuckiana Television, who in 1967 sold it to Sonderling Broadcasting (which would acquire several medium-market radio and television stations such as WAST in Albany, New York (now WNYT) until that company merged with Viacom in 1979). In 1973, Sonderling sold the station to Combined Communications. In 1979, Combined Communications merged with the Gannett Company.
In 1983, Gannett sold WLKY, along with WPTA in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Pulitzer after it purchased...
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