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WKTN broadcasts the competitions of the Kenton Wildcats, the sports teams of Kenton High School, as well as other county and regional school sports.Programs are usually hosted by Chad Spencer or Bob Simmons with the play-by-play and Jim Homan with color commentary.
The Kenton Times is the consolidation of the Kenton Daily Democrat and the Kenton News and Republican. The two papers merged in 1953 when Ray Barnes purchased the Daily Democrat from C. E. Flanagan and the News and Republican from Edwin S. Rutledge. In November 1953, The Kenton Times began publishing from the former plant of the Daily Democrat. [2]
Kenton is a city in and the county seat of Hardin County, Ohio, United States, [5] ... WKTN, a radio station, and The Kenton Times, a daily newspaper. Notable people
Two newspapers, the daily The Kenton Times of Kenton and the weekly The Ada Herald of Ada, operate in Hardin County. Radio stations include WKTN of Kenton and WOHA of Ada, a radio station owned by Holy Family Communications. WOCB-LP TV48 is a local Christian television station in downtown Kenton covering channels 39.1-39.4. [18]
The station dates back to WRWR, which signed on January 4, 1961, serving the town of Port Clinton.The station's callsign stood for its founder, Robert W.Reider, a local resident who eventually operated WRWR, WLKR in Norwalk, WAWR in Bowling Green, and WKTN in Kenton through his "Ohio Radio Incorporated" banner.
Reider eventually started and operated WAWR, WRWR in Port Clinton, WLKR in Norwalk, and WKTN in Kenton, all via his "Ohio Radio Incorporated" banner. WAWR programmed easy listening music during the day and rock in the evenings changing to contemporary rock and underground rock in the evenings with Bob Ladd, geared toward the college students at ...
In 2009, Ohio State announced it had sold its athletic program's media rights to IMG College and RadiOhio, Inc. (member of the Dispatch Broadcasting Group and then-owner of longtime network flagships WBNS and WBNS-FM); the "lucrative multiyear deal" was reportedly worth $110 million, and scheduled to last through 2019.
Following the 1996 Bengals season, the team ended its radio partnership with Jacor Broadcasting.Jacor had also been responsible for overseeing a network of 35 stations for the team, which had been fronted by WLW (the flagship station from 1968 to 1981 and from 1993 to 1996).