WPSD-TV

WPSD-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Paducah, Kentucky, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for Western Kentucky's Jackson Purchase region, Southern Illinois, the Missouri Bootheel, and northwest Tennessee. Owned by locally based Paxton Media Group, the station maintains studios on 4th Street and Kentucky Avenue in downtown Paducah, and its transmitter is located at Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky.

History

The station signed on as WPSD on May 28, 1957, with an analog signal on VHF channel 6. It has been an NBC affiliate and owned by the Paxton family for its entire existence alongside Western Kentucky's major newspaper, The Paducah Sun. The "PSD" letters in the call sign stands for Paducah Sun-Democrat which was the paper's name at the time the station launched in 1957.[2]

On June 7, 2025, WPSD moved from its original facility 100 Television Lane to 408 Kentucky Avenue where The Paducah Sun is also located.[3][4]

Availability

Over-the-air signal

WPSD's over-the-air signal can reach all parts of the western Kentucky, southern Illinois, and northwest Tennessee segments of the Paducah–Cape Girardeau market area. The signal can also be picked up in the southeastern Missouri segment of the market, with the exception of the Poplar Bluff and Farmington areas.[7]

Former translator

WPSD formerly operated a low-power VHF analog repeater W10AH (channel 10) in Carbondale, Illinois, from a transmitter (sharing the WSIU-TV–FM tower) on the Southern Illinois University campus. The license was last renewed in 2005 and canceled effective September 23, 2013.[8]

Out-of-market coverage

In addition to its in-market coverage, WPSD's over-the-air signal can also reach some of the Nashville media market's far western areas, like in Henry County, including Paris. Parts of Trigg County, Kentucky, near the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area can also pick up the station's signal. In Hopkinsville (Christian County (KY)), also part of the Nashville market, WPSD and WPSD-DT3 (its Antenna TV subchannel) is carried on that area's local Charter Spectrum system.[9] WPSD's main channel is also carried on Mediacom cable channel 15 on that provider's system in the Cadiz and Trigg County areas (including the Land Between the Lakes area), which are also in the Nashville market.[10][11]

Residents of Dawson Springs (Hopkins County, in the Evansville market), can also pick up the station's signal with an outdoor antenna as that area is just within Grade B signal range of the station's signal area. WPSD is the only station in the Paducah market that can reach that area.[12] In Webster County, Kentucky, including Dixon (within the Evansville DMA), WPSD-TV's main channel is carried on Spectrum channel 37.[13]

While broadcasting in analog, the signal had also been known to reach as far as areas in northeastern Arkansas, such as Blytheville, Trumann and Osceola. Until the 2009 digital television transition, the signal also used to be able to reach the far northern areas of Dyer and Gibson counties in northwest Tennessee, which are respectively in the Memphis and Jackson, Tennessee, markets.

callsign	WPSD-TV
city	Paducah, Kentucky
branding	WPSD Local 6
digital	19 (UHF)
virtual	6
affiliations	6.1: NBC 6.2: Cozi TV 6.3: Antenna TV
country	United States
airdate	May 28, 1957
location	Paducah, Kentucky Marion–Harrisburg, Illinois Cape Girardeau, Missouri
callsign meaning	Paducah Sun-Democrat
former channel numbers	Analog: 6 (VHF, 1957–2009) Digital: 32 (UHF, 2001–2020)
owner	Paxton Media Group
licensee	WPSD-TV, LLC
former affiliations	All secondary: ABC (1957–1960s)‡R1R‡
erp	679 kW
haat	492 m
facility id	51991
coordinates	37.192°N, -88.98144°W
licensing authority	FCC
website	https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/

History

Programming

News operation

Notable former on-air staff

Notable former on-air staff

Technical information

Subchannels

Analog-to-digital conversion

Availability

Over-the-air signal

Former translator

Out-of-market coverage

External links

References