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WHAS (AM)

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WHAS, known by the on air branding as News Radio 840 WHAS, is an AM radio station broadcasting in Louisville, Kentucky. [1]

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ABC News

ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Adult contemporary music

Adult contemporary music (AC) is a North American term used to describe a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, quiet storm, and rock influence.

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AM broadcasting

AM broadcasting is a radio broadcasting technology, which employs amplitude modulation (AM) transmissions.

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AM stereo

AM stereo is a term given to a series of mutually incompatible techniques for radio broadcasting stereo audio in the AM band in a manner that is compatible with standard AM receivers.

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American Basketball Association

The original American Basketball Association (ABA) was a men's professional basketball league, from 1967 to 1976.

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American Top 40

American Top 40 (commonly abbreviated to AT40) is an internationally syndicated, independent song countdown radio program created by Casey Kasem, Don Bustany, Tom Rounds and Ron Jacobs.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held online company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Backronym

A backronym, or bacronym, is a constructed phrase that purports to be the source of a word that is an acronym.

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Barry Bingham Sr.

George Barry Bingham Sr. (February 10, 1906 – August 15, 1988) was the patriarch of a family that dominated local media in Louisville for several decades in the 20th century.

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Bill Cunningham (talk show host)

William Daniel "Bill" Cunningham (born December 11, 1947) is an American radio and television talk show host, conservative commentator, attorney, and entrepreneur.

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Bill Handel

William Wolf "Bill" Handel (born August 25, 1951) is the director and founder of the Center for Surrogate Parenting, licensed attorney, and an AM radio personality in Los Angeles, California.

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Broadcasting & Cable

Broadcasting & Cable is a weekly television industry trade magazine published by NewBay Media.

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C-QUAM

C-QUAM is the method of AM stereo broadcasting used in Canada, the United States and most other countries.

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Casey Kasem

Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem (April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was an American disc jockey, music historian, radio personality, voice actor, and actor, known for being the host of several music radio countdown programs, most notably American Top 40, from 1970 until his retirement in 2009, and for providing the voice of Norville "Shaggy" Rogers in the Scooby-Doo franchise from 1969 to 1997, and again from 2002 until 2009.

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Cawood Ledford

Cawood Ledford (April 24, 1926 – September 5, 2001) was a radio play-by-play announcer for the University of Kentucky basketball and football teams.

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CBLA-FM

CBLA-FM is a Canadian radio station.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of American television and radio service CBS.

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Cedar Fair

Cedar Fair, L.P., doing business as the Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, is a publicly traded partnership headquartered at its Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio.

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Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Churchill Downs

Churchill Downs, located on Central Avenue in south Louisville, Kentucky, United States, is a Thoroughbred racetrack most famous for annually hosting the Kentucky Derby.

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Clear-channel station

A clear-channel station is an AM radio station in North America that has the highest protection from interference from other stations, particularly concerning night-time skywave propagation.

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Coast to Coast AM

Coast to Coast AM is an American late-night radio talk show that deals with a variety of topics.

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David Dick (journalist)

David Barrow Dick (February 18, 1930 – July 16, 2010), was a journalist from Kentucky who was a correspondent for CBS News from 1966 to 1985 and thereafter a professor at his alma mater, the University of Kentucky in Lexington, a book author, and publisher.

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Denver

Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Digital radio

Digital radio is the use of digital technology to transmit and/or receive across the radio spectrum.

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Don McNeill (radio presenter)

Donald T. "Don" McNeill (December 23, 1907 – May 7, 1996) was an American radio personality, best known as the creator and host of The Breakfast Club, which ran for more than 35 years.

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Ford Bond

Ford Bond (October 23, 1904 – August 15, 1962) was an American radio personality.

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Foster Brooks

Foster Brooks (May 11, 1912 – December 20, 2001) was an American actor and comedian most famous for his portrayal of a lovable drunk in nightclub performances and television programs.

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Gannett Company

Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly traded American media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, near McLean in Greater Washington DC.

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Gary Burbank

Gary Burbank (born Billy Purser, July 1941, in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American radio personality.

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Golden Age of Radio

The old-time radio era, sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Radio, was an era of radio programming in the United States during which radio was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium.

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HD Radio

HD Radio is a trademarked term for iBiquity's in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio technology used by AM and FM radio stations to transmit audio and data by using a digital signal embedded "on-frequency" immediately above and below a station's standard analog signal, providing the means to listen to the same program in either HD (digital radio with less noise) or as a standard broadcast (analog radio with standard sound quality).

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.

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Hugh Smith (news anchor)

Hugh Smith (died December 16, 2007) was a reporter, news anchor, and news director at WTVT in Tampa, Florida, from 1963 until his retirement in 1991.

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IBiquity

iBiquity Digital Corporation is a company formed by the merger of USA Digital Radio and Lucent Digital Radio, with the goal of creating an in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio system for the United States and around the world.

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IHeartMedia

iHeartMedia, Inc., formerly CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

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In-band on-channel

In-band on-channel (IBOC) is a hybrid method of transmitting digital radio and analog radio broadcast signals simultaneously on the same frequency.

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John Ziegler (talk show host)

John Ziegler (born March 28, 1967) is a radio program host, documentary film writer/director, and journalist.

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Kentucky Colonels

The Kentucky Colonels were a member of the American Basketball Association for all of the league's nine years.

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Kentucky Derby

The Kentucky Derby, is a horse race that is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival.

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Kentucky Historical Society

The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS), originally established in 1836 as a private organization, is an agency of the Kentucky state government that "collects, preserves, conserves, interprets and shares information, memories and materials from Kentucky's past to assist those interested in exploring and preserving that heritage".

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Kentucky Wildcats

The Kentucky Wildcats are the men's and women's intercollegiate athletic squads of the University of Kentucky (UK), a founding member of the Southeastern Conference.

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Kentucky Wildcats football

The Kentucky Wildcats football program represents the University of Kentucky in the sport of American football.

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Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball

The Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team is an American college basketball team that represents the University of Kentucky.

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KHOW

KHOW (630 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Denver, Colorado, and serving the Denver metropolitan area.

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Lachlan McLean

Lachlan McLean is a radio and television host in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Larry Kudlow

Lawrence Alan Kudlow (born August 20, 1947) is an American financial analyst and former television personality serving as Director of the National Economic Council under President Donald Trump since 2018.

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Lexington, Kentucky

Lexington, consolidated with Fayette County and often denoted as Lexington-Fayette, is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 60th-largest city in the United States.

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List of North American broadcast station classes

This is a list of broadcast station classes applicable in much of North America under international agreements between the United States, Canada and Mexico.

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List of radio stations in Kentucky

The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Kentucky, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats.

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Long Run, Louisville

Long Run is a neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky located near Shelbyville Road (US 60) and Clark Station Road.

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Louisville Cardinals

The Louisville Cardinals (also known as the Cards) teams play in the Atlantic Coast Conference, beginning in the 2014 season.

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Louisville Cardinals football

The Louisville Cardinals football team represents the University of Louisville in the sport of American football.

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Louisville Cardinals men's basketball

The Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team is the men's college basketball program representing the University of Louisville (U of L) in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) of NCAA Division I. The Cardinals have officially won two NCAA championships in 1980 and 1986 (with the 2013 title being vacated); and have officially been to 8 Final Fours (with the 2012 and 2013 appearances being vacated) in 38 official NCAA tournament appearances while compiling 61 tournament wins.

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Louisville metropolitan area

The Louisville metropolitan area or Kentuckiana, also known as the Louisville–Jefferson County, Kentucky–Indiana, metropolitan statistical area, is the 45th largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States.

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Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States.

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Middle of the road (music)

Middle of the road (MOR) loosely describes any type of music that falls between popular music and art music, and includes the work of serious composers who write in a lighter style than normal.

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Milton Metz

Milton Metz (c. 1921 – January 12, 2017) was an American radio and television personality in Louisville, Kentucky.

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is an audio coding format for digital audio.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement

The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, commonly abbreviated as NARBA, refers to a series of international treaties that defined technical standards for AM band (mediumwave) radio stations.

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Ohio River flood of 1937

The Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and February 1937.

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Premiere Networks

Premiere Networks (formerly Premiere Radio Networks, or PRN) is an American radio network.

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Public affairs (broadcasting)

In broadcasting, public affairs radio or television programs focus on matters of politics and public policy.

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Randy Atcher

Randall "Randy" Atcher (December 7, 1918 – October 9, 2002) was an American country musician.

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Ric Edelman

Fredric Mark "Ric" Edelman is the chairman and co-founder of Edelman Financial Services, LLC, the author of several personal finance books and the host of a weekly personal finance talk radio show called The Ric Edelman Show, syndicated by Syndicated Solutions.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

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Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Talk radio

Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music.

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Tegna, Inc.

Tegna, Inc. (stylized as TEGNA) is an American publicly traded broadcast, digital media and marketing services company headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

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Terry Meiners

Terry Allen Meiners, born January 22, 1957, is a on WHAS (AM) and WHAS-TV in Louisville, Kentucky.

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The Courier-Journal

Courier Journal, locally called The Courier-Journal or The C-J or The Courier, is the largest news organization in Kentucky.

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The Dave Ramsey Show (radio program)

The Dave Ramsey Show is a three-hour, self-syndicated radio program and podcast, hosted by the eponymous finance author and speaker, that airs Monday through Friday from 2-5 PM ET.

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The Denver Post

The Denver Post is a daily newspaper and website that has been published in the Denver, Colorado area since 1892.

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The Louisville Times

The Louisville Times was a newspaper that was published in Louisville, Kentucky.

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The Mark Levin Show

The Mark Levin Show is a conservative talk radio show hosted by Mark Levin.

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The Rush Limbaugh Show

The Rush Limbaugh Show is a conservative American talk radio show hosted by Rush Limbaugh on Premiere Networks.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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U of L Sports Network

The U of L Sports Network is the radio network of the University of Louisville Cardinals.

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UK Sports Network

The UK Sports Network, historically known as the Big Blue Sports Network (BBSN) and also formerly known as the UK IMG Sports Network, is the radio and television network of the University of Kentucky Wildcats men's and women's sports teams.

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University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky (UK) is a public co-educational university in Lexington, Kentucky.

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WAMZ

WAMZ is a country music-formatted radio station located in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Watterson Park, Kentucky

Watterson Park is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.

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WDRB

WDRB, virtual channel 41 (UHF digital channel 49), is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Louisville, Kentucky, United States.

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Wendell Ford

Wendell Hampton Ford (September 8, 1924 – January 22, 2015) was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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Westwood One

Westwood One, owned and operated by Cumulus Media, is an American mass media company headquartered in New York, New York, specializing in radio syndication and audio content.

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Westwood One News

Westwood One News is a radio news network operated by Westwood One through its parent company Cumulus Media.

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WFPL

WFPL is a 24-hour listener-supported, noncommercial radio station in Louisville, Kentucky, broadcasting at 89.3 MHz and focusing on news.

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WGN (AM)

WGN, 720 kHz, is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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WHAS Crusade for Children

The WHAS Crusade for Children is an annual telethon broadcast by WHAS-TV and WHAS (AM) Radio in Louisville, Kentucky.

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WHAS-TV

WHAS-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 11, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Louisville, Kentucky, United States.

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WKJK

WKJK (1080 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a talk radio format with some sports talk in middays.

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WKRD (AM)

WKRD (790 AM) is a sports talk formatted radio station in the Louisville, Kentucky metropolitan area.

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WLGX

WLGX (100.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Hot Adult Contemporary music format under the branding "100.5 Kiss FM".

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WNRW

WNRW (98.9 FM) - branded as 98.9 Radio Now - is a Top 40 (CHR) radio station located in Prospect, Kentucky, serving the Louisville, Kentucky area.

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WQMF

WQMF is a mainstream rock radio station located in Louisville, Kentucky.

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WSM (AM)

WSM (branded as The Legend) is a 50,000-watt AM radio station located in Nashville, Tennessee.

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WTFX-FM

WTFX-FM (93.1 FM) is a commercial mainstream urban radio station licensed to Clarksville, Indiana, serving the Louisville metropolitan area.

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1974 Super Outbreak

The 1974 Super Outbreak was the second-largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24-hour period, just behind the 2011 Super Outbreak.

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References

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