WPGP (AM)
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| City | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| Broadcast area | Pittsburgh metropolitan area |
| Branding | AM 1250 The Answer |
| Slogan | Pittsburgh's New Conservative Talk |
| Frequency | 1250 kHz |
| Translator(s) | 92.5 W279BK (Carbondale) |
| First air date | May 4, 1922 |
| Format | Conservative talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 65691 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°23′50.00″N 79°57′43.00″W / 40.3972222°N 79.9619444°W |
| Former callsigns | 2011–2015: WDDZ 1998–2010: WEAE 1966–1998: WTAE 1961–1966: WRYT 1922–1961: WCAE |
| Former frequencies | 1928–1941: 1220 kHz 1927-1928: 650 kHz 1927: 560 kHz 1923–1927: 650 kHz 1922–1923: 750 kHz 1922: 833 kHz |
| Affiliations | Salem Radio Network |
| Owner |
Salem Media Group (Pennsylvania Media Associates, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WPIT, WORD-FM |
| Website | www |
WPGP is an AM radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, broadcasting at 1250 kHz with a power level of 5,000 watts. The station is owned and operated by the Salem Media Group.
The station is one of the five original Pittsburgh stations, signing on May 4, 1922 as WCAE. It was originally owned by the Pittsburgh department store Kaufmann & Baer's, and operated at 833 kHz (as all stations did at that time); it moved to 750 kHz in December and to 650 in May 1923. Kaufmann and Baer's was purchased in 1925 by Gimbels; this made WCAE the company's third radio station, after WIP in Philadelphia and WGBS in New York City. The station became an affiliate of the NBC Red Network in January 1927. It moved to 560 kHz on June 15, 1927, but in November returned to 650; a year later, WCAE moved to 1220 kHz
WCAE was acquired by Hearst Corporation in 1931. The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement moved the station to 1250 kHz on March 29, 1941; on November 1, it became a full-time affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System (which previously aired on both WCAE and KQV), with NBC Red moving to KDKA. Another affiliation change took place on June 15, 1945, when WCAE swapped affiliations with KQV and joined the Blue Network, which changed its name to the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) that same day. An FM sister station at 96.1 MHz was started in 1948; WCAE-FM was shut down in 1953, but was restarted August 8, 1960. WCAE lost the ABC affiliation to WJAS on May 21, 1955. The station expanded into television three years later, with the debut of WTAE (channel 4) on September 4, 1958, initially as a joint venture of Hearst and the former owners of KQV; this arrangement had led to the sale of KQV to ABC in 1957 to avoid duopoly concerns.
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