WKKT
| City | Statesville, North Carolina |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Charlotte/Metrolina |
| Branding | 96.9 The Kat |
| Slogan | Charlotte's Best Country |
| Frequency | 96.9 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | 1967 (as WDBM-FM) |
| Format | Country |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 472 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 68207 |
| Callsign meaning | We're Kat KounTry |
| Former callsigns | WDBM-FM (1967-1973) WOOO (1973-1981) WLVV (1981-1985) WLVK (1985-1990) WTDR (1990-1997) |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (Capstar TX LLC) |
| Sister stations | WEND, WHQC, WLKO, WRFX |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wkktfm.com |
WKKT is a country music radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., its transmitter is located in Mooresville, North Carolina, and its studios are located on Woodridge Center Drive in South Charlotte.
WKKT broadcasts two channels in the HD Radio format; HD 1 is a simulcast of "The Kat", and HD 2 is known as "Foggy Mountain", which plays Classic Country.
In the Boone area, WKKT is subject to co-channel interference from WXBQ-FM, licensed to Bristol, Virginia. The transmitters of the two stations are less than 100 miles apart, and WXBQ broadcasts with an effective radiated power of 75,000 watts.
The station on 96.9 FM in Statesville, North Carolina began in 1967 as WDBM-FM, and was largely the simulcast partner to co-owned daytime station WDBM (now with the call sign WAME). The station's original owner was Walter B. Duke, and the call letters supposedly stood for "Walter Duke's Beautiful Music" station. WDBM-FM continued to broadcast in the evenings after the AM station signed off.
The Duke family sold the stations in 1973, and the new owners separated the operations of the AM and FM, and programmed the FM station as a rock-oriented Underground format, changing the call letters to WOOO and the station's slogan to "Triple-O-97".
In 1981, WOOO was sold again. The new owners increased its power to 100,000 watts and began serving the Charlotte market under the call letters WLVV and slogan "Love 97". Its initial format under those call letters was an automated system called "The FM100 Plan", but later changed to Churchill Productions' "Radio One", a soft adult contemporary format. Popular announcers on the station in those years included Phil Green, Bob Brandon, Bob Chrysler, Dan Lucas, Dick Durante and Anne Cruse.
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