Hopkinsville, Kentucky is served by various media outlets. While it is one of two principal cities in its own radio market, it is considered to be part of the Nashville, Tennessee DMA, which is ranked as the 29 largest media market in the United States.
Hopkinsville is the largest Kentucky city to be considered to be a part of the Nashville, Tennessee television market, which includes nine counties along the KentuckyâÂÂTennessee state line. Nashville is ranked at the 29th largest media market in the United States.
While Hopkinsville does not currently have any locally based television stations of its own, the city was previously served locally by these stations and translators:
Currently, in addition to Nashville's full-power stations, Hopkinsville is served over-the-air by KET station WKMA-TV (channel 35) of Madisonville. Clarksville, TennesseeâÂÂbased WCKV-LD (channel 21) transmits rimshot signals in at least the southern half of the city. Cable television subscribers are also served by a few locally based public access stations, as well as Bowling Green ABC affiliate WBKO and Paducah NBC affiliate WPSD-TV.
Mediacom and Charter/Spectrum are the primary cable television providers in the area.
In addition to most radio stations in Clarksville, Hopkinsville is served locally by the following stations listed below.
The National Weather Service forecast office in Paducah provides automated weather information to the area via NOAA Weather Radio stations KXI26 (162.45 MHz) in Hopkinsville and WXJ91 (162.525 MHz) in Madisonville. The area is also served by station WWH37 (162.5 MHz) in Clarksville.