WKAG-CA
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Hopkinsville, Kentucky/ Clarksville, Tennessee United States |
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| City | Hopkinsville, Kentucky |
| Branding |
NewsWatch 43 (newscasts) WKAG-3 (2004-2010) The Pennyrile Channel (2009-2010?) Source16 (2010-2011) |
| Slogan | Western Kentucky Television |
| Channels | Analog: 43 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | Defunct |
| Owner | NewWave Communications (Owen Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| Founded | December 9, 1983 |
| First air date | July 1984 |
| Last air date | August 5, 2011 |
| Former callsigns | W43AG (1983–1994) |
| Former affiliations | America One |
| Transmitter power | 18.5 kW |
| Class | CA |
| Website | www.wkag.com |
WKAG-CA was a Class A low-power television station in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, United States, broadcasting locally on UHF analog channel 43. WKAG was also available on cable on NewWave Communications in Christian and Muhlenburg counties in Kentucky and on CDE Lightband in Montgomery County (Clarksville), Tennessee. The station was owned by NewWave Communications.
Founded December 9, 1983, the station went on the air in July 1984 as W43AG under the ownership of the publisher of the Kentucky New Era newspaper. It was the first standalone low-power television station to ever sign on in Kentucky. The call letters were changed to WKAG-LP in 1994 (after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allowed low-power stations to use traditional call signs with an "-LP" suffix, instead of a translator-style call sign), and to WKAG-CA in 2002 (reflecting its Class A status).
The New Era sold the station to Owen Broadcasting, controlled by station manager Eddie Owen, in mid-2004; in 2010, NewWave purchased the station from Owen and rebranded the station as "Source16", after the station's new cable slot (before the acquisition, WKAG was instead seen on cable channel 3).
On August 5, 2011, at 3 p.m., Source16 employees were informed that the station would be shut down. No warning was given to employees prior to the shutdown. On September 14, 2012, due to the station having been off the air for more than twelve months, the FCC cancelled the station's license and deleted the WKAG-CA call sign from its database.
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