The call letters WIKY debuted in 1948, when John A. Engelbrecht gained the FCC license for 820 AM.

Over the past 60 years, the Engelbrecht family maintained ownership of WIKY through their company South Central Communications, which owns 5 stations in Evansville, as well as radio stations in Nashville and Knoxville and a Muzak provider (South Central Sound).

In the most recent Arbitron ratings report, WIKY is the most-listened-to radio station in the Evansville metro survey area.

[3] WIKY has been named "Best Radio Station" by the Evansville Courier Press "Reader's Choice" Awards the past two years, and was named "AC Station of the Year" (2008 - Markets 101+) by Radio and Records magazine.

With this purchase, Midwest Communications expanded its portfolio of stations to Evansville, Knoxville and Nashville.