[8] In addition to its primary AM signal, WCBL is also simulcast on full-power station WCBL-FM (99.1 MHz).

Licensed to Grand Rivers, it broadcasts from a transmitter in rural southern Livingston County southeast of Smithland.

McCallum once persuaded then-future Kentucky governor Edward T. Breathitt to go into politics at a Hopkinsville-based theater he owned at that time.

WCBL mostly played country music for much of its first three decades on the air[4]: 83  until 2000, when that format was moved to WCCK.

In 1980, WCBL's name and likeness as well as local restaurant Hutchen's Bar-B-Que was used in the filming of a scene in the Loretta Lynn biography movie, Coal Miner's Daughter.