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WSMJ was a radio station that was broadcast at 800 kHz. Licensed to Cave City, Kentucky, USA, the station served Glasgow and the Caveland region of south central Kentucky. The station was owned by Commonwealth Broadcasting. ==History== The first application with the FCC by Twin City Broadcasting was filed in December 1974.〔"VHF frequency swap in Nashville."For The Record '' -- "Applications - New AMs". Broadcasting'', December 16, 1974, page 47. ()〕 The station began broadcasting as WKVE sometime in on October 23, 1975 under Twin City ownership.〔"For the Record" -- "Facilities Changes" - AM actions. ''Broadcasting'', December 1, 1975, page 55. ()〕 The WSMJ call letters were after Steve Newberry, a former on-air personality, purchased the station in 1984.〔("Steve Newberry: 'We've Learned How to Deal in the New Normal'" ). RadioWorld.com (September 14, 2011). Retrieved June 3, 2015.〕 WSMJ originally transmitted from a tower on the southern outskirts of Cave City along US Route 31W. Throughout its time on the air, evidence from old radio-and-TV-hobbyist publications dating from the 1970s to 1989, WSMJ broadcast an Adult contemporary format.〔 On February 5, 1985, WSMJ increased its transmitter power from 250 watts to 500 watts. Signal orientation was changed to non-directional.〔 On October 21, 1987, Newberry filed an application to sell the station to Murray Communications, Inc.〔"For the Record" -- "Ownership Changes." Broadcasting, November 2, 1987, page 69. ()〕 The station permanently went off the air at some point in the early 1990s due to financial problems. The permanent sign off was also because the station was unable to maintain a good-quality signal and/or gain consistent listenership and ratings against Munfordville's WCLU-FM, Bowling Green's WBLG-FM (now WUHU), or Nashville's WYHY (now WRVW), all of which also broadcast an adult contemporary format (in the case of WRVW, now broadcasting a top-40 format as of February 1996). WHHT was also an AC format radio station, but has since switched to a country format in 2013 after a frequency swap with WPTQ. Currently, WHHT-FM is the only radio station in the market that has a broadcasting license to the town of Cave City itself. In spite of this, the Cave City/Glasgow area is still served by full-service radio station WCLU and its FM countrtpart, WCLU-FM, Munfordville-based WLOC, and most full-power FM stations out of Bowling Green and Nashville. ==On-air personalities== *Rick Dubrose - a former owner of the station 〔"(TALK OF THE TOWN: Q&A with Rick Dubrose )". ''Bowling Green Daily News'', November 2, 2015, page 1-A. 〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WSMJ (AM)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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