WRVK

WRVK

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City of license	Mount Vernon, Kentucky
Broadcast area	South Central Kentucky
Slogan	"Your Homefolks Station"
Frequency	1460 kHz
First air date	April, 1957
Format	Full service
Power	1200 Watts (day) 93 Watts (night)
Class	D
Facility ID	14732
Transmitter coordinates
Callsign meaning	Welcome to Renfro Valley Kentucky
Owner	Saylor Broadcasting, Inc.
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	http://www.wrvk1460.com

WRVK (1460 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a full service format centered on Classic Country. Licensed to Mount Vernon, Kentucky, USA, it serves the South Central Kentucky area.

History

WRVK was founded in 1957 by John Lair and Tom Hargis in Renfro Valley, Kentucky. The station is currently owned by Saylor Broadcasting, Inc. Today, WRVK features a unique format of traditional country, bluegrass, gospel, and oldies music programming. The station also provides local news, sports, and weather coverage Mondays - Saturdays, a local tradio program entitled "Whatcha Got?" as well as local church programming on Sundays. The station has its own live local music program, "The Suppertime Jubilee," which is broadcast on Tuesday evenings from 6-8 PM Eastern Time. Music heard on WRVK ranges from straightforward classic country to classic rock, bluegrass music, gospel music, and even pre-modern era "hillbilly and western music" from the 1920s to the 1940s, rarely heard on American radio.

From the time of the station's debut, WRVK has been the flagship station of the nationally syndicated Renfro Valley Gatherin' (station co-founder John Lair created the show sixteen years prior). Originally airing on Sundays, WRVK moved the show to Saturday morning in 2011, where it airs at 6:25 a.m. local time.

Internet radio

WRVK's radio coverage area is Rockcastle County, Kentucky and immediate surrounding areas. The station began broadcasting 24 hours a day on the radio in July, 2008. WRVK's radio coverage area is reduced to the Mt. Vernon area at night, due to transmitter power being reduced per FCC regulations pertaining to "daylight only" stations. WRVK also broadcasts streaming audio online 24/7 to listeners worldwide. This had previously been a rebroadcast of the previous day's radio programs, but is now a live stream of the syndicated and pre-recorded shows which are broadcast on the radio station while it is on low power at night.

External links

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