 One of the station's most popular programs was the 1981 launch of the "Wrangler Country Showdown", a live-broadcast country music talent search which preceded such current programs as "American Idol" by some 20 years.The station was also known as one of the earliest and longest-running affiliates of the now-defunct Mutual Broadcasting System and also carried Mutual's "The Larry King Show", which was broadcast overnight during the early 1980s, making the station Bowling Green's first 24-hour radio operation.The station was an affiliate of Cincinnati Reds baseball and the University of Kentucky football/basketball networks.