WBGN (AM)

WBGN (1340 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports radio format. Licensed to Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA, the station serves the Bowling Green area. The station is currently owned by Forever Communications, Inc.^[3]

History

The station's construction permit was granted by the Federal Communications Commission on May 18, 1959, and the station first signed on the air on November 24 of that same year. The FCC granted the official license on May 31, 1960. It was originally owned by J. Paul Brown and Robert L. Proctor, doing business as Bowling Green Broadcasting Company. The station broadcast a country format, but switched to a Top 40/CHR format. From 1965 until 1982, WBGN was the original flagship station of Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football basketball games of the Hilltopper Sports Radio Network, with Bud Tyler (originally from WLBJ) making the play-by-play commentary on those broadcasts.^[4]

WBGN's format changed from Top 40/CHR to Top 40 Oldies, in 1985. In April 1988, WBGN was purchased by Hilltopper Broadcasting, another locally based radio broadcasting firm, and switched back to a country music format. However, the station switched back to Top 40 Oldies in 1990, this time broadcasting the music from a satellite service called "The Oldies Channel". This format lasted until Forever Communications purchased the station, and converted it into a Sports radio station by affiliating WBGN with ESPN Radio.^[4]

The station is now affiliated with Fox Sports Radio after WWKU and WCDS became the ESPN Radio affiliates.

References

External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for WBGN
• Radio-Locator Information on WBGN
• Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WBGN