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:

• WAPG-CA channel 14; Greeneville, TN (broadcasting from Viking Mountain)
• WAPM-CA channel 9; Benham-Lynch, KY (Black Mountain)
• WAPW-CA channel 31; Abingdon, VA (Brumley Mountain)

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 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.

[edit] External links

• Station Website
• MyNetworkTV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WAPK
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WAPG
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WAPM
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WAPW