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Full-power digital · channel 18 · BOWLING GREEN, KY
| Facility ID | 71861 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY |
| Community of licence | BOWLING GREEN, KY
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 37.06367, -86.43519 |
| Effective radiated power | 61 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 347.6 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | http://wkyupbs.org/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | none |
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| WBKO | 13 | DTV | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| W14FJ-D | 14 | LPD | |
| facility 793899 | 17 | LPD | |
| facility 794169 | 17 | LPD | |
| WCZU-LD | 19 | LPD | DTV AMERICA CORPORATION |
| WKUT-LD | 20 | LPD | DTV AMERICA CORPORATION |
| facility 796512 | 22 | LPD | |
| WNKY | 24 | DTV | MARQUEE BROADCASTING KENTUCKY, INC. |
| WKGB-TV | 29 | DTV | KENTUCKY AUTHORITY FOR EDUCATIONAL TV |
| WBGS-CD | 34 | DCA | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| WNKY-LD | 35 | LPD | MARQUEE BROADCASTING KENTUCKY, INC |
| WCTZ-LD | 35 | LPD | DTV AMERICA CORPORATION |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WKYU-TV | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WKYU-TV | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.