City | Portsmouth, Virginia |
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Broadcast area | Hampton Roads |
Branding | "1650 The Answer" |
Frequency | 1650 AM kHz |
First air date | 1999 |
Format | Conservative Talk Radio |
Power | 10,000 Watts daytime 1,000 Watts nighttime |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 87170 |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°48′10.0″N 76°16′58.0″W / 36.802778°N 76.282778°W |
Callsign meaning |
W Hampton (Roads) (The Big) KaT location and former branding |
Former callsigns | WAWT (1998-1998) WHKT (1998-Present) |
Affiliations |
CBS Radio News Premiere Networks TheBlaze Radio Network |
Owner | Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation |
Sister stations | WPMH |
Webcast | WHKT Webstream |
Website | WHKT Online |
WHKT is a Conservative Talk Radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads. WHKT is owned and operated by Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation.
On January 25, 2010, Disney announced that it is selling the station to Hampton Roads area religious broadcaster Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting for $350,000. In the interim, Disney took WHKT, and five other stations slated to be sold, off the air on January 22; the station had previously carried the company's Radio Disney network.
The sale was listed as "consummated" by the FCC as of May 5, 2010.