WKVI AM 1520

A commercial AM radio station broadcasting at 1520 kHz, licensed to Knox, Indiana, and owned by Kankakee Valley Broadcasting Company, Incorporated. Operating under an all-news format, the station delivers local news alongside content from ABC News, AP News, Network Indiana state news, and AccuWeather weather reports. It serves the Kankakee Valley area of north-central Indiana, on the southern edge of the South Bend radio market. The station first went on the air on July 21, 1969, founded with a team that included manager Harold Welter, a veteran of LaPorte-area radio, along with disc jockey Ted Hayes, engineer Bob Densmore, and a news staff. In its early decades the station served as a general-interest broadcaster for the rural communities of Starke County and surrounding areas. Kankakee Valley Broadcasting also operates sister FM station WKVI-FM at 99.3 MHz, which shifted to an oldies format branded "Vinyl Gold" in September 2022, focusing on music from 1964 to 1975. A third property, MAX 98.3 FM (WYMR), licensed to Culver, Indiana, was built by the company in 2014 as a Class A FM facility operating at 6,000 watts, covering music from the 1970s and 1980s. In November 2014, WKVI-FM received the Spectrum Award as Station of the Year in Market 3 from the Indiana Broadcasters Association, recognizing the company's commitment to local radio service across the region.