WKYT media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WKYT in the centre. We have seen it on 7 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is WKYT biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WKYT in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is WKYT left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place WKYT in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is WKYT reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for WKYT are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What WKYT has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with WKYT’s own report linked underneath.
The Trump administration is distributing $500 refund checks to nearly one million Americans in 30 states. The Treasury Department began sending these payments on September 30, intended for individuals who purchased health insurance through HealthCare.gov and paid the full premium without federal subsidies.
WKYT reported it asTrump administration to begin sending $500 Obamacare refund checks. See who qualifies (opens WKYT in a new tab)
In the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, juror Michael P. Desronvil was the sole holdout against an insanity acquittal, leading to an 11‑1 deadlock and a mistrial declared by Judge William Sullivan. Desronvil maintains prosecutors proved Clancy knowingly killed her three children.
WKYT reported it asLindsay Clancy juror says no evidence showed anything other than a ‘loving, wonderful person’ (opens WKYT in a new tab)
The juror who prevented a unanimous verdict in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has hired Edward Paltzik, an attorney who previously represented Donald Trump. The juror stated he had no doubts about Clancy's guilt based on the evidence presented.
WKYT reported it asLindsay Clancy juror says no evidence showed anything other than a ‘loving, wonderful person’ (opens WKYT in a new tab)
House Speaker Mike Johnson has sent representatives home early for their pre-election recess. This move postpones a vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, which had been initiated by Rep. Thomas Massie over Hegseth's actions in Iran and Venezuela.
WKYT reported it asHouse Speaker Johnson sends Congress home early, delaying Hegseth impeachment vote (opens WKYT in a new tab)
Senator Mitch McConnell cast a vote to advance the farm bill in committee on September 16, after receiving voting instructions from Senator John Hoeven. The bill passed the committee 12-11 along party lines.
WKYT reported it asMcConnell confirms he will return to Senate to cast first vote since hospitalization (opens WKYT in a new tab)
Former President Donald Trump attended the 25th anniversary 9/11 ceremony at the Pentagon. Viewers and a Reuters photograph indicated he appeared sleepy, with his eyes closed. The White House stated he was solemnly remembering victims.
WKYT reported it asWife of 9/11 victim calls out Saudi Arabia during New York ceremony (opens WKYT in a new tab)
Wendell Berry, the prolific Kentucky-born author, farmer, and environmentalist, has died at the age of 92. His daughter confirmed his death on August 31, 2026. Berry was celebrated for his writings on agrarianism and his critiques of industrial society.
WKYT reported it asFamed Kentucky writer, activist Wendell Berry dies at 92 (opens WKYT in a new tab)
Who says so
3 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
- Ad Fontes MediaveryHighCheck it
- Media Bias/Fact Checkhigh
Who owns it
- Gray TelevisionMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 7
- Reports listed
- 7
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 22 August 2026
7 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. WKYT is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 7 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of WKYT: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 6 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 October 2026. Ratings pulled 21 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as WKYT, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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