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WLKY (pronounced Will-Kay) is a local television station based in Louisville, Kentucky serving the Louisville metropolitan area. It is an iHeartMedia-owned ABC affiliate and branded as WLKY Louisville. WLKY's studios are located on Barret Avenue in eastern Jefferson County, and its transmitter is located in Shepherdsville, Kentucky.

WLKY started on September 18, 1957, as WKLW-TV, a CBS affiliate owned by Kentuckiana Television Inc., a joint venture between WGRC/WHAS-AM-FM owner WHAS, Inc. and the Stewart family's WAVE, Inc. The following year, Kentuckiana sold the station to Wrather-Alvarez Broadcasting for $3.25 million (equivalent to $29.4 million in 2022) and changed the call letters to WLKY-TV. Wrather-Alvarez sold the station to Sonderling Broadcasting in 1963. Sonderling merged with Taft Broadcasting in 1973, which was itself bought by Great American Communications in 1987. GAE unified its broadcasting and cable operations under the name Citicasters in 1993, and the station became known as WLKY Citicasters.
iHeartMedia (then known as Clear Channel Communications) bought the station from Citicasters in 1999.
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On January 18, 2017, WLKY announced it would take over the ABC affiliation from the Time Warner-owned WTVW on August 1, after ABC notified WTVW that it did not want to renew its affiliation agreement because Louisville was considered to be a "top 50" market, and WTVW, as a CW-owned station, would not be able to provide the necessary must-carry status and promotional support that ABC requires in such markets.

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