WFPK

Infobox Radio Station


name = WFPK
frequency = 91.9 MHz
city = Louisville, Kentucky
area = Louisville
format = Adult Album Alternative
power = 6800 watts
branding =
slogan =
class = B
owner = [http://www.louisvillepublicmedia.org/ Louisville Public Media]
website = [http://www.wfpk.org wfpk.org]
callsign_meaning = W Free Public Library Kentucky|

WFPK-FM is a 24-hour listener-supported, noncommercial radio station in Louisville, Kentucky, broadcasting at 91.9 MHz FM featuring an adult album alternative format. The station plays national and local alternative music as well as jazz all day on Sunday. A regular feature is the "Five O'Clock Shadow" at around 5:00 PM each day, where a cover version and the original (or an earlier standard version) are played back to back.

The station also hosts various year-end countdowns that last several days, starting with the "2001 Greatest Songs of All Time" (which attracted lighthearted protest in local papers after DJs jokingly played "Free Bird" as the best song ever before playing the real choice, "Imagine" by John Lennon). Subsequent year-end countdowns included "500 Greatest Artists of All Time" and "Top 919 Albums of All Time."

WFPK is also host to the weekly series "Live Lunch," which features local and national acts performing live in front of a studio audience in the station's performance studio. Guests of Live Lunch have included Tommy Emmanuel, Will Oldham, Alejandro Escovedo, The Subdudes, Jonatha Brooke, The Decemberists, Over the Rhine, the Derek Trucks Band and Amos Lee. In 2007, the station released "Best of WFPK Live Vol. 1," a limited-edition CD that contained cuts from the series; the disc was given away as an exclusive premium for new members during the spring 2007 membership drive.

WFPK, along with its sister stations WFPL and WUOL, presently broadcasts an HD radio signal.

External links

*official|http://www.wfpk.org/ WFPK
*FM station data|WFPK