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WKJK (1080 AM broadcasting) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a talk radio Radio format in Louisville, Kentucky. It is owned by iHeartMedia and serves North-Central Kentucky and South-Central Indiana. It features programming from iHeart subsidiary Premiere Networks as well as Compass Media Networks. The station's studios are in the Louisville neighborhood of Watterson Park.
By day, WKJK is powered at 10,000 watts. Because 1080 AM is a clear-channel frequency, WKJK must reduce power at night to 1,000 watts to protect the Class A stations on 1080 kHz, KRLD Dallas and WTIC Hartford, Connecticut. It uses a directional antenna off East Daisy Lane in New Albany, Indiana.
WKLO was one of Louisville's favorite Top 40 stations in the 1960s and 70s. It was owned by Dayton-based Great Trails Broadcasting, which also owned several other Top 40 outlets, all of them in Ohio including WING, WIZE, WYTS, WCOL-FM and WGTZ. WKLO provided competition to Louisville's main Top 40 station, WAKY (790 AM, now WKRD). In 1979, WKLO began sharing its Top 40 format with sister station WKJJ (99.7 FM). Because co-owned AM and FM stations could not fully simulcast the same programming at the same time, WKLO became a "shadowcast" delayed broadcast of WKJJ-FM (now WDJX).
On June 24, 1991, the station flipped to Christian talk and teaching after it was leased out to different operators. Six months later, on January 13, 1992, it again flipped back to a simulcast of its FM sister. In April 1992, a fire at the base of one of the towers briefly took the station off the air.
The station was assigned the call letters WWSN on May 15, 1993. It was part of a warehousing move to put the call letters on WSFR after it signed on later in the year. By August, the AM occasionally split from the simulcast to air some alternative rock programming. Several months later, on October 15, 1993, the station changed its call sign to WDJX. In September 1994, it ended the simulcast and returned to all-news as "The News Resource", WRES. During this time, the station aired AP Radio News and NBC Talknet programs.Tom Dorsey, "'Madonna' biography offers little to shock - or interest - viewers," The Courier-Journal, November 28, 1994.
In 1999, WKJK flipped to a talk radio format. With sister station 840 WHAS airing mostly local talk shows, WKJK became the Louisville home for iHeart's nationally syndicated shows, including Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.
Weekends feature shows on money, gardening, travel and computers, including syndicated programs: The Kim Komando Show, In the Garden with Ron Wilson, Armstrong & Getty, Rudy Maxa and At Home with Gary Sullivan. As a sister station of 840 WHAS, WKJK is a secondary home for University of Kentucky sports, including women's basketball and baseball games, and for Racing Louisville FC women's soccer games. Most hours begin with an update from Fox News Radio.
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