WAPK-CA

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WAPK-CA
Kingsport / Johnson City / Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia
Branding My Tri-Cities WAPK
Channels WAPK-CA 36 (UHF) analog,
WKPT-DT 27-2 (UHF) digital
Translators 14 WAPG-CA Greeneville, TN
9 WAPM-CA Benham-Lynch, KY
31 WAPW-CA Abingdon, VA
Affiliations MyNetworkTV
Owner Holston Valley Broadcasting Corporation
Founded April 30, 1989
Call letters meaning WAP from former W30AP call sign
Kingsport
Former affiliations Independent (1989-1995)
UPN (1995-2006)
Transmitter Power 22.8 kW
Website wapktv.com

WAPK-CA, channel 36, is a low-powered MyNetworkTV affiliated station, owned by the Holston Valley Broadcasting Corporation as a sister station to ABC affiliate WKPT serving the Tri-Cities area of Tennessee and Virginia. The station broadcasts from a directional antenna at Holston Mountain on the Sullivan-Johnson county line near Elizabethton, Tennessee.

Programming on WAPK can also be seen on these repeaters:

Note that the digital signal is the primary one, being the origination for many of the cable companies that carry WAPK. Holston also uses the digital signal as the source for all of WAPK's analog channels, including 36, via a series of ATSC receivers that directly feed the transmitters.

WAPK can also be seen on WKPT-TV's digital signal on channel 27-2. The station does not have a digital signal of its own, as is common with duopolies.

[edit] History

WAPK's UPN logo.
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WAPK's UPN logo.

WAPK began service on April 30, 1989 as W30AP, identified on-air as WAP-TV. Programming was standard independent fare with classic TV sitcoms, sports, old movies & cartoons, plus repeats of WKPT-TV's newscasts. On January 16, 1995, WAP-TV became a charter affiliate of the new UPN Television Network. Shortly afterward, W30AP was re-named WAPK-LP in April 1995. In May 2002, the station attained Class-A status and changed to its current call letters, WAPK-CA. In 2003, WAPK-CA moved from channel 30 to channel 36. On March 30, 2006 it was announced that WAPK would be a MyNetworkTV affiliate beginning in September 2006.

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Broadcast television in the Tri-Cities, TN/VA (Johnson City / Kingsport / Bristol) market  (Nielsen DMA #92)

WETP 2 (PBS/ETPtv) - WCYB 5 (NBC) (The CW on DT2) - WOPI 9 (Ind) - WJHL 11 (CBS) - WLOS 13 (ABC) - WKPT 19 (ABC) - WKPI 22 / WKHA 35 (PBS/KET) - WUNF 33 (PBS/UNC-TV) - WAPK 36 (MNTV) - WEMT 39 (FOX) - WSBN 47 / WMSY 52 (PBS) - WYMT 57 (CBS) - WLFG 68 / WAGV 44 (Ind)


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