Glasgow, Kentucky is technically considered to be part of the Bowling Green, Kentucky DMA, which is ranked as the 182nd largest media market in the United States.
Barren County Progress - weekly newspaper
Glasgow is also served by the Bowling Green Daily News, which was originally based in nearby Glasgow Junction (now Park City) during that publication’s early days of operation. That newspaper is published all seven days of the week.
Defunct newspapers
Glasgow Daily Times - published Monday through Saturday (1865-2020)
Television
Glasgow is served by all television stations in the Bowling Green area. Glasgow was also previously served by select television stations in Louisville and Nashville, Tennessee on local cable systems.
The city of Glasgow proper is served by the Glasgow Electric Plant Board, while areas surrounding the city is served by the South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative. Both cable companies provide local public-access television channels serving the immediate area. Some other areas of the Glasgow micropolitan area, including parts of Barren and Metcalfe Counties, plus Cumberland County, are served by Mediacom.
Currently, no over-the-air broadcast television stations have any physical presence in Glasgow. However ABC affiliate WBKO once operated a news bureau during the 1980s and early 1990s.
Television stations
Current
WBKO
WKYU-TV
WCZU-LD
WNKY
WKGB-TV
WDNZ-LD (licensed in Glasgow, but based in Bowling Green)
Defunct
Glasgow was previously served locally by these Trinity Broadcasting Network owned-and-operated translators: WKUG-LP (2002-2007) WKUT-LP (2002-2010) WKUW-LP (2007-2010)
Radio
In addition to most radio stations in Bowling Green, Glasgow is served locally by the following stations listed below.
AM stations
Adjacent locals
Defunct locals
800 AM - WSMJ - AC - Licensed to Cave City (1975-1991)
FM stations
Adjacent locals
NOAA Weather Radio
The National Weather Service forecast office in Louisville provides automated weather information to the entire Mammoth Cave tourism area via Horse Cave-based weather band radio station WNG570, broadcast on a frequency of 162.500 MHz. Glasgow is also served on a secondary basis by Bowling Green’s weather radio station KIH45.