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{{short description|Radio station in Hawesville, Kentucky}} {{Use American English|date=February 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox radio station | country = US | name = WKCM | logo = | above = Simulcasts WBIO Philpot | city = Hawesville, Kentucky | area = Owensboro, Kentucky | branding = ''Country Classics'' | frequency = 1160 kHz | translator = 92.1 W221EG (Hawesville)<br>97.9 W250BW (Whitesville) | repeater = | airdate = November 7, 1972 | format = Classic country | power = 2,500 watts day<br>55 watts night | class = D | facility_id = 25966 | coordinates = {{coord|37|54|20|N|86|45|30|W|region:US_type:city}} | callsign_meaning = | former_callsigns = | affiliations = | owner = Cromwell Radio Group | licensee = Hancock Communications, Inc. | sister_stations = WBIO, WLME, WTCJ, WCJZ, WVJS, WXCM | webcast = [http://www.owensbororadio.com/player?playerID=601 Listen Live] | website = {{URL|https://www.owensbororadio.com/wbio/}} | licensing_authority= FCC }}

'''WKCM''' (1160 AM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Hawesville, Kentucky. The station is owned and operated by Hancock Communications, Inc., doing business as the Cromwell Radio Group, and the station's broadcast license is held by Hancock Communications, Inc.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?call=WKCM |title=WKCM Facility Record |publisher=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division }}</ref>

WKCM broadcasts a classic country music format to the greater Owensboro, Kentucky, area.

==History== The station signed on the air on November 7, 1972, the day of that year's election. For its first ten years on the air, it broadcast on AM 1140. It reallocated to its present-day frequency of 1160 kilohertz in 1982.<ref name="nash">{{Cite book|last=Nash|first=Francis M.|date=1995|title=Towers Over Kentucky: A History of Radio and TV in the Bluegrass State|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/History/Towers-Over-Kentucky-Nash-1995.pdf|via=World Radio History|isbn=9781879688933}}</ref>

The station's transmission tower collapsed during a windstorm in January 1976; it returned to the air the next day with a makeshift antenna.{{r|nash}}

In the 2010s, WKCM also broadcasts on 2 FM translators: Hawesville, Kentucky (92.1 MHz) and Whitesville, Kentucky (97.9 MHz). Additionally, on August 1, 2018, WKCM began simulcasting with sister station WBIO, in addition to dropping the Nash Icon syndicated format from Westwood One, and broadcasting all music and programming locally.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{AM station data|25966|WKCM}} *{{FCC-LMS-Facility|202058|W221EG}} *{{FXL|W221EG}} *{{FCC-LMS-Facility|139308|W250BW}} *{{FXL|W250BW}}

Category:Country radio stations in Kentucky