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{{redirect|WKYX|the radio station in Paducah, Kentucky, that used this call sign from 1964 to 2023|WBMP (AM)}}
{{Infobox radio station
| name = WKYX-FM
| logo = WKYX logo.png
| city = [[Golconda, Illinois]]
| country = United States
| area = [[Paducah, Kentucky]]
| branding = ''Super Talk 94.3''
| frequency = 94.3 [[MHz]]
| translator = 
| repeater = 
| airdate = {{Start date and age|1990|11|22}}
| format = [[Talk radio|News–talk]]
| erp = 3,100 [[watt]]s
| haat = {{convert|137|m|ft|sp=us}}
| class = A
| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
| facility_id = 40647
| coordinates = {{coord|37|14|4|N|88|29|48|W|region:US-IL_type:landmark}}
| callsign_meaning = 
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|WXZB (1990)|WDXR-FM (1990–2002)|WPFX (2002)|WLIE (2002)|WLIE-FM (2002–2006)}}
| affiliations = {{ubl|[[Fox News Radio]]|[[Premiere Networks]]|[[Salem Radio Network]]|[[Westwood One]]}}
| owner = Bristol Broadcasting Company, Inc.
| licensee  = 
| sister_stations = [[WBMP (AM)|WBMP]], [[WDDJ]], [[WDXR]], [[WKYQ]], [[WLLE]], [[WNGO]], [[WPAD]], [[WZYK]]
| webcast = [https://player.amperwave.net/1046 Listen Live]
| website = [https://www.wkyx.com wkyx.com]
| embed_header = Simulcast
| embedded =
{{Infobox radio station
| name = WNGO
| city = [[Mayfield, Kentucky]]
| country = United States
| frequency = 1320 [[kHz]]
| translator = {{Radio Relay|105.9|W290DF|Mayfield}}
| owner  = Bristol Broadcasting Company, Inc.
| licensee = 
| operator = 
| sister_stations = 
| founded = 
| airdate = {{Start date and age|1947|1|7}}<ref name=nash>{{Cite book|last=Nash|first=Francis M.|date=1995|title=Towers Over Kentucky: A History of Radio and TV in the Bluegrass State|publisher=HOST Communications|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/History/Towers-Over-Kentucky-Nash-1995.pdf|via=World Radio History|isbn=9781879688933}}</ref>
| last_airdate = 
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|WIVR (1998–1999)|WKJM (1999–2004)}}
| former_frequencies = 
| callsign_meaning = We Need God Only{{r|nash|page=77}}
| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
| facility_id = 71614
| class = D
| power = {{ubl|1,000 watts day|97 watts night}}
| coordinates = {{coord|36|45|37|N|88|38|20|W|region:US-KY_type:landmark|name=WNGO}}
| child = yes
}}
}}

'''WKYX-FM''' (94.3 [[Hertz|MHz]]) is a [[radio station]] broadcasting a [[Talk radio|news/talk]] format. WKYX-FM is licensed to serve [[Golconda, Illinois]]. WKYX-FM's programming is also heard on '''WNGO''' (1320 AM) in [[Mayfield, Kentucky]]. The stations are owned by Bristol Broadcasting Company, Inc. and feature programming from [[Fox News Radio]], [[Premiere Networks]], [[Salem Radio Network]], and [[Westwood One]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WKYX |title=WKYX-FM Facility Record |work=United States [[Federal Communications Commission]], audio division }}</ref>

==History==
[[File:WKYX NewsTalk94.3-570 logo.jpg|thumb|right|WKYX AM 570 & FM 94.3 former logo]] [[File:WNGO NewsTalk95.5 logo.jpg|thumb|right|WNGO AM 1320 & FM translator W238AN FM 95.5 former logo]]
===History of WKYX-FM===
The station signed on the air at 94.3 FM on November 22, 1990, as WXZB. Before the year ended, the station changed its callsign to WDXR-FM. In 2002, the station briefly was recalled as WPFX, and then WLIE-FM shortly before the start of 2003. The current WKYX-FM callsign was adopted in 2006.

===History of WNGO===
The station signed on the air on January 7, 1947, as Mayfield's second radio station to open after WKTM (1050 kHz) opened the previous year. WNGO was mostly a religious radio station, with local church minister H.M. Suthard and Paul Mullins as the original owners. ''[[Amazing Grace]]'' was the first song to be played on the station in its inaugural broadcast.{{r|nash|page=77}} 

The station would launch WNGO-FM (94.7 MHz, now [[WZYK]]) in 1955 in order to broadcast local sporting events at night. In 1957, the station was sold to West Kentucky Broadcasting Company. Operations of WKTM was merged with that of WNGO that year; the 1050 kHz frequency WKTM originally occupied was reassigned to [[WNES]] of [[Central City, Kentucky|Central City]] in 1960.{{r|nash|page=78}} 

The station's studios fell victim of flooding on two separate occasions in 1983.{{r|nash|page=78}}

===WKYX/WNGO merger===
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===Recent developments===
On December 26, 2022, [[WBMP (AM)|WKYX]] 570 AM and translator W265DZ 100.9 FM split from the news/talk simulcast with WKYX-FM and WNGO.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/247863/hip-hop-beat-debuts-in-paducah/|title=Hip Hop Beat Debuts in Paducah|work=Radioinsight|date=January 26, 2023|access-date=June 21, 2024}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{FM station data|40647|WKYX-FM}}
{{AM station data|71614|WNGO}}
*{{FCC-LMS-Facility|201095|W290DF}}
*{{FXL|W290DF}}

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{{News/Talk Radio Stations in Kentucky}}

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