area children. The show proved to be a smash success that led to merchandise sales (including T-shirts, bumper stickers, and even the show's theme song on record) and several guest appearances at community events. Due to shifting economics and program philosophies in the local television industry at the time, as well as an ownership change, Happy's Hour quietly faded away in 1979. On February 17, 2020, the station debuted the afternoon talk show The Lee and Hayley Show, featuring former WLEX-TV personalities Lee Cruse and Hayley Harmon. The duo had exited the local NBC affiliate the previous year. Cruse and Harmon produce the show through their own company, with production services provided by WTVQ. The program is now also aired in Bowling Green on WBKO/Fox and on four additional Morris-owned stations. Notable former on-air staff Kenny Rice — sports director, later of NBC Sports Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion WTVQ-TV was the first station in Lexington to broadcast a digital signal in 2002. The station shut down its analog signal over UHF channel 36, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 40, using virtual channel 36. TV spectrum repack In the wake of the repacking of television stations out of the 600 MHz band, including channels 38 to 51, WTVQ's digital signal moved from channel 40 to channel 27 in 2019. References External links Guide to the WBLG Audio Tape Collection, 1954-1977 housed at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center TVQ-DT ABC network affiliates True Crime Network affiliates Twist (TV network) affiliates Ion Mystery affiliates Quest (American TV network) affiliates Morris Multimedia Television channels and stations established in 1968 1968 establishments in Kentucky