Kentucky Athletics Getting New TV Partner For First Time Since '70s

The Univ. of Kentucky athletics department announced that Lexington's WLEX-TV "will become the new official TV partner of both UK Athletics and the UK Sports Network," according to Mark Story of the LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. That new arrangement "will end a relationship" between UK Athletics and Lexington's WKYT-TV that "reached back to the 1970s." UK Sports Network TV programming "will now be available on WLEX and other participating UK Sports Network affiliates six days per week." As part of the agreement, a program called "BBN Tonight" will air Monday-Friday from 7:30-8:00pm ET on WLEX. The show "will give viewers a daily 30-minute insider's look into the Kentucky Athletics program." UK coaches and athletes "will join the show nightly." For longtime Kentucky sports fans, the pairing of UK and WLEX "is a reunion." Back in the 1960s, former men's basketball coach Adolph Rupp "had a weekly coach's show on WLEX" (LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, 8/28).