TV channels & antenna towers in Elizabethtown, Kentucky

With roughly 29,700 residents, Elizabethtown is a town in Kentucky. Within 70 miles of the town center we count 28 licensed TV transmitters: 15 full-power, 6 Class A, 6 low-power and 1 translator. Based on each transmitter's power, antenna height and distance, 10 are likely to arrive at fair strength or better, and 6 at good or strong strength.

2 of them are within 25 miles of Elizabethtown, 3 sit 25 to 45 miles away and 23 are more than 45 miles out. Four of the 10 network stations in range are licensed to Louisville, so most of the network channels you will find here come from Louisville's stations.

The strongest network signals here are ABC on channel 11 (WHAS-TV), CBS on channel 32 (WLKY), NBC on channel 3 (WAVE), Fox on channel 41 (WDRB), CW on channel 58 (WBKI), ION on channel 67 (WUPX-TV) and Telemundo on channel 34 (WBGS-CD). Spanish-language viewers can pick up Telemundo (very weak signal). 7 full-power stations in range have no network listed in our data; these are typically public television, religious, shopping or independent stations.

Point your antenna N, at about 1°. The main network towers for Elizabethtown sit in that direction, so a single directional antenna can pick them all up.

Five network stations, WDRB, WBKI, WHAS-TV, WAVE and WLKY, transmit from the same tower site about 45 miles north of Elizabethtown (1° N). Point at that site and a single antenna setting picks them all up.

Of the 6 full-power and Class A network signals that reach Elizabethtown at fair strength or better, 83% arrive from the north; the rest are spread across one other direction.

All of the main network towers are within their radio horizon as seen from Elizabethtown, so signals arrive fairly directly and a well-placed antenna should hold them steadily.

The farthest main network tower for Elizabethtown is WAVE (NBC), 47 miles away with a good estimated signal. That is why we suggest an outdoor directional antenna here. Viewers who do not need that station can often manage with less.

WKZT-TV is only 1.3 miles away with a strong signal. Signals that strong can overload an amplifier, so start without one and add it only if distant channels are missing. Read when an amplifier helps.

With 10 stations at fair strength or better, Elizabethtown ranks 187th of 275 places in Kentucky: fewer than the typical Kentucky town (13). Its nearest major network tower is 45 miles away, against a state median of 25 miles.

29% of Kentucky's cities and towns get the same recommendation: an outdoor directional antenna. The nearest larger city is Louisville, 39 miles away.