WLKY

WLKY is a television station in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, affiliated with CBS. The station is owned by Hearst Television and maintains studios on Mellwood Avenue in the Clifton Heights section on Louisville's east side; its transmitter is located in rural northeastern Floyd County, Indiana. WLKY began broadcasting on September 16, 1961, bringing the full ABC schedule to Louisville. Previously, the city had had only two commercial stations, which together aired some of the network's programming. Originally based in Shively, the station moved to its present transmitter site in 1965 and its present studio facility in 1967. Its original owners, a consortium of mostly local investors, sold the station in 1967 to Sonderling Broadcasting, which in turn sold it to Combined Communications Corporation, which merged into Gannett in 1979. For most of its first 35 years on air, WLKY was the third-rated news station in Louisville, owing to a lack of news resources and its ultra high frequency signal.