This was King Forward's second construction permit for a television station in the Bowling Green market after WCZU-LD was successfully built and taken to the air in cooperation with DTV America Corporation in 2014.
The initial broadcast plans for the station was to transmit the signal on UHF channel 16 from WCZU's original transmitter site, which is a former AT&T Long Lines microwave relay tower in Edmonson County just northwest of Brownsville on Grassland Road off Kentucky Route 70.
In early 2023, the station applied for and successfully changed its allocation to UHF channel 35, and to move to the full-power WNKY's transmission facility near Smiths Grove.
[3][4] On July 11, 2023, the station was granted its license[5] and began test broadcasting as a full-time translator of WNKY, simulcasting all three of its subchannels.
Two subchannel content changes occurred in 2024: the launch of the DT4 channel to carry MeTV Toons on June 25,[6] and Defy TV being replaced by Ion Plus on July 1.