WKPT (AM)
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| City | Kingsport, Tennessee |
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| Broadcast area | Tri Cities |
| Branding | ESPN Tri Cities |
| Frequency | 1400 kHz |
| First air date | 1940 |
| Format | Sports |
| Power | 1,000 watts (unlimited) |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 27495 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°32′37″N 82°31′21″W / 36.54361°N 82.52250°W |
| Callsign meaning | W KingsPorT |
| Affiliations | ESPN Radio |
| Owner | Glenwood Communications Corporation (Holston Valley Broadcasting Corporation) |
| Sister stations | WAPK-CD, WKPT-TV, WKTP, WMEV-FM, WOPI, WOPI-CD, WRZK, WTFM, WVEK-FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www |
WKPT (1400 AM) is a North American radio station, located in Kingsport, Tennessee. It operates with a daytime/nighttime power of 1,000 watts. WKPT is one of the oldest radio stations in East Tennessee, first taking the airwaves in 1940.
WKPT (AM) broadcasts an all-sports-talk format featuring programming from ESPN Radio.
Local programming features "Sports Magazine," hosted by sports director Scott Gray, on Monday evenings. "Sports Magazine" has been a fixture on the station for more than two decades.
WKPT (AM) has long been the home of Dobyns-Bennett (Kingsport) High School sports, heard on the flagship frequency of 1400 kHz and its translator at 94.3 FM.
In the late 1980s, coverage of Science Hill (Johnson City) High School was added on 1590 kHz (the former WJSO, which broadcasts from nearby Jonesborough TN) and its translator at 97.7 FM. These broadcasts, featuring Tim Cable on play-by-play and Scott Gray on color analysis, have won state awards from the Associated Press.
And in the early 1990s, Bristol coverage of Tennessee High School Sports was added on WOPI which has broadcast since 1929 (it was the Tri-Cities' first broadcast station) and is at 1490 kHz. WOPI employs a Bristol translator at 97.9 FM.
WKPT has, for decades, featured live play-by-play sports of the University Of Tennessee/Knoxville (the "Vols" or "Big Orange") from the Vol Radio Network. This included the 1999 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl in which the Vols defeated the Florida State Seminoles 23-16 for the first BCS national championship. That game was the final football broadcast for 30-year announce team John Ward and Bill Anderson (Ward would announce the 1998-99 Vol men's basketball season before retiring; he did the basketball games solo).
WKPT, WOPI-1490 Bristol, and WKTP-1590 Jonesborough/Johnson City are owned by Holston Valley Broadcasting Corporation, a subsidiary of Glenwood Communications Corporation. Each carries a substantial amount of the same programming each week but breaks away for local sports, specialized programming, and other community events.
Holston Valley Broadcasting also operates television stations WKPT-TV 19 (ABC) and WAPK-CD 36 (MyNetworkTV). Other radio stations in the chain include WTFM-FM, WMEV-FM, WVEK-FM and WRZK-FM (95.9 The Hog).
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