programming on 32.1. In May 2021, Shop LC was added as part of a bulk group deal with Hearst, though as the network already pays for lifeline cable and satellite carriage, its carriage on WLKY is mainly for the benefit of over-the-air viewers. Analog-to-digital conversion WLKY discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 32, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 26. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 32. As part of the SAFER Act, WLKY kept its analog signal on the air until July 12 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters. Out-of-market coverage Frankfort WLKY-TV is available in Kentucky's state capital city of Frankfort (part of the Lexington media market) via Windjammer Communications as well as the Frankfort Plant Board's cable system. The Frankfort area can also pick up WLKY and other Louisville stations along with the Lexington stations with an antenna. Southern Kentucky From 1990 until 2007, WLKY (and before the affiliation switch, WHAS-TV), along with WTVF in Nashville, Tennessee, were the de facto CBS affiliates for the small Bowling Green market, as that area did not have a CBS affiliate of its own. Most cable systems in the Bowling Green market carried WLKY on its lineup along with WTVF. On February 1, 2007, locally-based NBC affiliate WNKY signed on a second digital subchannel, WNKY-DT2, to serve as Bowling Green's first-ever CBS affiliate. As a result of WNKY-DT2's CBS affiliation, WLKY was dropped from cable systems in the immediate Bowling Green area, but remains available on Mediacom's systems in Hart and Metcalfe counties, while Mediacom's customers in Butler and Edmonson counties has long been served with Nashville's WTVF. Both WLKY and WTVF (as well as their associated digital subchannels) remain available in Glasgow (Barren County) via the cable system of the South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative. In 2016, the Glasgow Electric Plant Board dropped WLKY in favor of WNKY-DT2, with WTVF remaining intact. Northwest Kentucky In the Evansville, Indiana, market, Crystal Broadband Networks carries WLKY on CBN channel 2 on its lineup for the system's customers in Hancock County,