WNKY
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WNKY is a NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Bowling Green, Kentucky on UHF channel 40. Owned by Max Media, the station's transmitter is located near Smiths Grove, Kentucky, about halfway between Bowling Green and Glasgow.
History
Although granted a construction permit in 1983, the station first signed on the air in late 1989. At that time, the station operated as an independent station under the callsign WQQB. The station had a general entertainment format with a mixture of sitcoms, old movies, and cartoons.
In its early days, the picture and sound quality of the station were very poor and had a low-budget feel. Programs would often broadcast mistracked, sticking and skipping. Sometimes the picture would appear clear, but the sound would consist of complete static. The station had little presence in the market at that time; many locals didn't even know the station existed.
It would later become a Fox affiliate for the southern Kentucky region and change its callsign to WKNT. Ultimately, the station became a NBC affiliate, changed its calls to WNKY, and boosted its power from 776,000 watts to 1,640,000 watts directional, with a null to the east.
Before changing to NBC, the network's Nashville affiliate WSMV was the default station in the market. Even after WNKY flipped to NBC, WSMV could still be received in the Bowling Green market.
Currently, Bowling Green does not have its own CBS affiliate, making Nashville's WTVF or Louisville's WLKY-TV the default CBS stations in the market. WNKY, however, has reportedly expressed interest in setting aside a digital subchannel for a CBS affiliate, as well as one for FOX's new network, My Network TV. Rival WBKO already has a digital subchannel for Fox, and will add one for the merger of the UPN and WB networks, The CW, in Fall 2006.
External links
| Broadcast television in the Bowling Green market [(Nielsen DMA #183)] | |||
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| WTVF 5 (CBS) - WBKO 13 (ABC) (Fox on DT2) (The CW on DT3 "WBWG", starting 9/061) - WZTV 17 (FOX) - WKYU 24 (PBS) - WUXP 30 (UPN) - WLKY 32 (CBS) - WBKI 34 (WB) - WNKY 40 (NBC) - WKAG-LP 43 (A1) - WKGB 53 (PBS/KET) | |||
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WBWG 12 (The WB/The CW1) 1(WBWG will become an affiliate of The CW and will be included on WBKO's digital signal in September 2006) | |||
| WAVE 3 ([[Template:Louisville TV|Louisville]]) - WPSD 6 ([[Template:Paducah TV|Paducah]]) - WLEX 18 ([[Template:Lexington TV|Lexington]]) - WNKY 40 ([[Template:Bowling Green TV|Bowling Green]]) | |
| See also: [[Template:ABC Kentucky|ABC]], [[Template:CBS Kentucky|CBS]], [[Template:Fox Kentucky|Fox]], [[Template:PBS Kentucky|PBS]], [[Template:UPN Kentucky|UPN]], [[Template:WB Kentucky|WB]] and [[Template:Other Stations In Kentucky|Other]] Stations in Kentucky | |
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