WNKE

WNKE is a radio station licensed to New Boston, Ohio. Its original call letters were a carryover from its former sister station WPAY, which signed on in 1933 as a country yodeling and country music station, from which the call letters were derived. The station became notable when it stayed on air during the floods in Portsmouth in 1937, giving up-to-the-minute news and announcements to those separated and weary from the floods. In the 1960s, WPAY started to play country music on its FM while the AM was reassigned to have a news/talk format. The AM signed off the air on June 3, 2011 after 80 years. WNKE is currently a public radio station owned by Northern Kentucky University offering an adult album alternative format, simulcasting WNKU. WNKE has one of the most powerful radio antennas in Southern Ohio and had one of the tallest radio towers, standing over 200 meters high overlooking the Ohio River in Kentucky. Due to the station having an ERP of 100,000 watts, its signal can be heard as far away as Columbus, Ohio, Beckley, West Virginia, and Cincinnati, Ohio.