K-Country studios at 50 Friendship Pike in Campbellsville.
K-Country has been a member of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation family since
1997. From its inception over 25 years ago, it was owned by Veer Broadcasting, principally
owned and nurtured since its infancy by Mike and Joy Wilson.
WGRK has developed a long legacy of service to Green, Taylor and surrounding counties
through local news, weather coverage, like the 1974 tornado that wiped out cities and towns
across the region and state. By covering local school events, Cow Days (of which we are now
a corporate sponsor), July 4th, Green and Taylor county fairs and by carrying Rotary and
Lions club and Little League auctions.
Over the last nearly 30 years we've played everything from country to rock-n-roll, finding that
country music was the best fit to serve a rural area, and as listeners made the transition from
AM to FM radio.
And throughout the years, many familiar names and voices have been heard playing music
and delivering news and weather like (in no particular order) Jim Goodall, Mike Wilson, John
Boggs, Scott Murphy, Bob Bell, Sid Hale, Cynthia Milby, Larry Smith (aka Stan the Rock 'n Roll
Man), Kale Tharpe, Neil Eastham, Ron King, Bo (Big Jim) Walker, Chase McBride, B.J. Lowe,
Tommy Kerr, Marty Bagby, Barry G. "For Goodness" Whitlock, Don Salmon, Terry Petrik,
Marty Hazel, Lew Edwards, K.J., Andy Colley, Trent Ford and many more!
Throughout the years, WGRK Stereo 103 evolved into K-Country! Maintaining, if not
improving, the same local sound, and in 1997 adding the resources of a network of radio
stations across the commonwealth, as a part of Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation,
headed by Glasgow, Kentucky small-market radio veteran, and a native and current resident
of Hiseville, Steve Newberry.
K-Country made a move on the radio dial from 103.1 to 105.7 in December of 2007.
Today K-Country remains, without a doubt, the region's most locally-intense radio station.
With local news, farm news with Jack Crowner, Coy Trapp and Mike Feldhaus, local sports with
Joel Bennett and the K-Country "Morning Show" with Trent Ford, filled with local features
including interviews of local people talking about local events, giveaways and more...all with
the listener our very first priority!
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