Television station in the United States
WAPK-CD
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City
| Kingsport, Tennessee
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Channels
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Branding
| MeTV Tri-Cities WAPK
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Affiliations
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Owner
| - Glenwood Communications Corporation
- (Holston Valley Broadcasting Corporation)
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First air date
| April 30, 1989
; 35 years ago
(
1989-04-30
)
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Former call signs
| - W30AP (1989?1995)
- WAPK-LP (1995?2002)
- WAPK-CA (2002?2014)
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Former channel number(s)
| - Analog:
30 (UHF, 1991?2002), 36 (UHF, 2002?2014)
- Digital:
36 (UHF, 2014-2019)
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| "WAP" from former W30AP calls; Kingsport
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Licensing authority
| FCC
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Facility ID
| 77677
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Class
| CD
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ERP
| 13
kW
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HAAT
| 665.4 m (2,183 ft)
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Transmitter coordinates
| 36°25′53″N
82°8′15″W
/
36.43139°N 82.13750°W
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36.43139; -82.13750
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Public license information
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Website
| wapk
.tv
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WAPK-CD
(channel 36) is a
low-power
,
Class A television station
licensed to
Kingsport, Tennessee
, United States, serving the
Tri-Cities
area as an affiliate of
MeTV
. It is owned by Glenwood Communications Corporation alongside
Cozi TV
affiliate
WKPT-TV
(channel 19) and several radio stations. All of the stations share studios on Commerce Street in downtown Kingsport; WAPK-CD's transmitter is located on Holston High Point at
Holston Mountain
in the
Cherokee National Forest
.
Due to its low-power status, the broadcasting radius does not reach all of the Tri-Cities area. Therefore, the station is
simulcast
in
16:9
widescreen
standard definition
on WKPT's second
digital subchannel
in order to reach the entire
market
. This relay signal can be seen on channel 19.2 from the same transmitter facility.
History
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WAPK began service on April 30, 1989, as W30AP, identified on-air as "WAP-TV". Programming was standard
independent
fare with classic television sitcoms, sports, old movies, and cartoons plus repeats of WKPT's newscasts. On January 16, 1995, WAP became a charter affiliate of
UPN
. Shortly afterward, W30AP was renamed WAPK-LP in April 1995. In May 2002, the station attained Class A status and changed to the call sign WAPK-CA. In 2003, WAPK moved from UHF channel 30 to channel 36. WAPK became a
MyNetworkTV
affiliate at the network's inception on September 5, 2006. In recent years, WAPK has been carried on
cable
in
Harlan, Kentucky
, which is within the
Knoxville
media market
.
[2]
The station was issued its license for digital operation on October 10, 2014, at which point it changed its call sign to WAPK-CD.
Following the announcement that WKPT-TV would lose its
ABC
affiliation to the DT2 subchannel of
WJHL-TV
, it was announced that much of WAPK's programming, including MyNetworkTV, would move to WKPT-TV, and that WAPK would switch to programming from a digital network,
[3]
later revealed to be
MeTV
, WJHL-DT2's former affiliation. The switch over took place on February 1, 2016.
[4]
The station's fourth channel is expected to carry
Heroes & Icons
.
[5]
After WKPT-TV dropped MyNetworkTV in favor of
Cozi TV
, the
Laff
affiliation was transferred from WAPK-CD's third subchannel to WKPT's third subchannel (which had previously carried Cozi TV); the move came as a result of Holston Valley Broadcasting opting to refocus WKPT and WAPK entirely around "nostalgia-based programming", stating that MeTV outrates ABC Tri-Cities in most time periods.
[6]
The CD3 subchannel then subsequently became an affiliate of
Bounce TV
, a TV network targeting an African-American audiences.
Technical information
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Subchannels
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The station's signal is
multiplexed
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Translators
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The station can also be seen on these repeaters. The main signal on channel 16 is the origination for many of the cable companies that carry WAPK. Holston also uses the signal as the source for all of WAPK's channels via a series of
ATSC
receivers that directly feed the transmitters.
References
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- ^
"Facility Technical Data for WAPK-CD"
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Licensing and Management System
.
Federal Communications Commission
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"Harlan Community Television, Inc. Cable Line-Up"
. Harlan Community Television, Inc
. Retrieved
March 2,
2015
.
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"WKPT's affiliation with ABC coming to an end"
.
Kingsport Times-News
. Retrieved
January 4,
2016
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"WKPT, WAPK announce new programming plan"
.
Kingsport Times-News
. Retrieved
February 2,
2016
.
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"Digital TV Market Listing for WAPK"
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rabbitears.info
. Retrieved
May 1,
2016
.
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a
b
Hayes, Hank (January 30, 2017).
"Holston Valley Broadcasting goes all-in on nostalgic TV"
.
Kingsport Times-News
. Retrieved
January 30,
2017
.
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RabbitEars TV Query for WAPK-CD
External links
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Full power
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Low power
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Cable
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Defunct
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