Throwback Thursday strives to celebrate major milestones in our southern Kentucky community. We can’t let the year 2025 slip away without mentioning a major accomplishment of our own, here at WNKY. 2025 marks the 35th year of our television station being on the air. First broadcast in December of 1989, we will be celebrating year 36 in just a few months. In the meantime, let’s take a look back through broadcasts of years past.

It all started in 1983, when the FCC gave a construction permit for channel 40 in October of 1983 to CMM Communications, from Crossville, Tennessee. The station permit traded hands a couple more times before Bob Rodgers, President of Word Broadcasting in Louisville, officially began broadcasting as WQQB in December 1989. It was originally a religious independent sta

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