Overview of mass media in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, United States
Hopkinsville, Kentucky is served by various media outlets. While it is one of two principal cities in its own radio market, it is considered to be part of the Nashville, TennesseeDMA, which is ranked as the 29 largest media market in the United States.
Print
The Kentucky New Era, founded in 1869, is the daily newspaper serving the city and surrounding areas.
The Hoptown Chronicle is an online news outlet operated by a non-profit organization that provides public service journalism.[1]
Hopkinsville is the largest Kentucky city to be considered to be a part of the Nashville, Tennessee television market, which includes nine counties along the Kentucky–Tennessee state line. Nashville is ranked at the 29th largest media market in the United States.
Television stations
While Hopkinsville does not currently have a locally based television stations of its own, the city was previously served locally by these stations and translators:
WKAG-CA (channel 43, 1984–2010);[2] first LPTV station to open in Kentucky.
Currently, in addition to Nashville's full-power stations, Hopkinsville is served over-the-air by KET station WKMA-TV (channel 35) of Madisonville. Clarksville, Tennessee–based WCKV-LD (channel 21) transmits rimshot signals in at least the southern half of the city. Cable television subscribers are also served by a few locally based public access stations, as well as Bowling GreenABC affiliate WBKO and PaducahNBC affiliate WPSD-TV.
The National Weather Service forecast office in Paducah provides automated weather information to the area via NOAA Weather Radio stations KXI26 (162.45 MHz) in Hopkinsville and WXJ91 (162.525 MHz) in Madisonville. The area is also served by station WWH37 (162.5 MHz) in Clarksville.[5]