In 2009, WKMS installed repeater services for Madisonville as well as Fulton, which also covers Martin and Union City, Tennessee.

WKMS has emergency auxiliary transmitters at its tower on the site of the former Mont, Kentucky in the Land Between the Lakes territory, and at its studios on the eighth floor of Price Doyle Fine Arts Center at MSU.

The studio from which the program was broadcast consisted of a handmade control board located in the old Economics room on the third floor of Wilson Hall.

In the early 1960s, a news department was added, emphasizing in-depth, on-the-spot reporting for the Jackson Purchase region of southwestern Kentucky.

The Thoroughbred Hour Tape Library was formed in 1966; MSC was renamed MSU that same year by an act of the Kentucky General Assembly.

Mofield convinced then-MSC President Ralph Woods of the benefits from a radio station on campus, and as a result, $15,000 was set aside for its development.

In 1968 Woods applied for a non-commercial educational radio license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and requested for the frequency to be located at 91.7.

MSU President Dr. Harry Sparks noted this milestone and said, "With this radio station's audience we lengthen the shadow and multiply the sphere of influence of this University.

[3] The two rooms in the northwest corner of Wilson Hall were not able to meet the productive, professional environmental needs of educational radio broadcasts that Mofield had first envisioned.

When NPR was created, affiliated stations received support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a nonprofit organization funded in part by the United States Congress.

[5] The flagship NPR program of its day, All Things Considered, became the only daily newscast on WKMS and was an instant success.

As with other public broadcasting stations of that time, programming guides were perquisites sent to members, released monthly at first, later seasonally.

The guides always began with a letter from the station manager discussing new programs added to the schedule and the reasons some others were removed.

[8][9][10] The advent of advanced technology took place in the late 1970s with a sophisticated system of satellite interconnection of radio and television around the country.

Costly telephone lines delivered a low-quality signal, which was only suitable for the deliverance of spoken-word programs, not musical ones.

On November 5, 1979, Morning Edition premiered and became an instant hit, like its afternoon counterpart All Things Considered.

Listener Joy Thomas of Murray won the "Powdermilk Biscuit" recipe contest, related to the then-popular Prairie Home Companion show on Saturday evenings.

Twenty-seven NPR stations in 16 states (ten percent of the network at the time) picked up The Black Cats Jump, a WKMS-produced show hosted by Bobby Bryan.

[13] Bryan later created another 13-hour series about Billie Holiday and the musical biographies of over 40 major artists who had played with her over three decades.

On August 21, 1988, a lightning strike set off a chain reaction that "fried many components and circuitry" within the WKMS transmitter.

Station manager Janet Kenney cleverly named it "Sounds of Silence" and used the incident to WKMS's advantage.

In the fall 1988 programming guide, she addressed the situation to listeners and challenged them to recall the need they had for public radio during the silence, and reminded them of the importance of their support.

[2] In the late spring of 2007, WKMS-FM started a new digital signal which virtually eliminates noise in broadcasting such as static, "hisses," "pops," and fading.

During the January 2009 Central Plains and Midwest ice storm, power was temporarily lost to the regional signal at the tower and HD radio digital transmission system in the Land Between the Lakes, and the station operated from its studio site auxiliary system, a low-power transmitter and line that reached most of Calloway County and the WKMS translator in Paris (see above).

Broadcasts include the Paducah Symphony Orchestra, concerts from MSU, and nationally syndicated programs like From the Top and Sunday Baroque.

The Paducah translator broadcasts at 27 watts, designed to improve WKMS reception for area listeners in spots of low elevation that are due to the proximity of the Ohio River, where a lack of clear lines of sight impeded reception from the main WKMS 100,000 watt transmitter in the Land Between the Lakes.

This project grew with a grant from the Carson Myre Charitable Foundation in 2013 to record and broadcast orchestral and choral performances.

In the summer of 2013, WKMS partnered with MSU to implement a Teen Leader Radio Project, for high school juniors and seniors in area leadership groups to produce stories for scholarship awards.

WKMS used additional funds raised by listeners in February 2014 to move the equipment to Murray to become the new classical repeater on 99.5 FM.

WKMS co-sponsors several events with regional organizations such as MSU's Lovett Live, Land Between the Lakes' Pickin' Party, the Lowertown Art and Music Festival in Paducah, the Pennington Festival in Princeton, Kentucky, concert broadcasts of the Paducah Symphony Orchestra, local schools, and other art agencies.