WAPK-CD

WAPK-CD
Kingsport - Johnson City - Bristol, Tennessee - Bristol, Virginia United States

City	Kingsport
Branding	Me-TV Tri-Cities WAPK
Channels	Digital: 36 (UHF/PSIP)
Affiliations	Me-TV (2016-present)
Owner	Glenwood Communications Corporation (Holston Valley Broadcasting Corporation)
First air date	April 30, 1989 (1989-04-30)
Call letters' meaning	WAP (from former W30AP calls) and Kingsport
Sister station(s)	WKPT-TV, WOPI-CD, WTFM, WRZK, WVEK-FM, WMEV-FM, WKPT, WOPI & WKTP
Former callsigns	W30AP (1989-1995) WAPK-LP (1995-2002) WAPK-CA (2002-2014)
Former channel number(s)	30 (UHF, 1989-2003)
Former affiliations	Independent (1989-1995) PTEN (1993-1995) UPN (1995-2006) MyNetworkTV (2006-2016)
Transmitter power	22.8 kW 25 kW (WKPT-DT2)
Height	689 m 695 m (WKPT-DT2)
Facility ID	77677 27504 (WKPT-DT2)
Transmitter coordinates	36°25′54″N 82°8′15″W / 36.43167°N 82.13750°W / 36.43167; -82.13750
Licensing authority	FCC (WKPT-DT2)

WAPK-CD is the Class A Me-TV-affiliated television station for Northeastern Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia that is licensed to Kingsport, Tennessee. It broadcasts a low-powered digital signal on UHF channel 36 from a transmitter on Holston High Point at Holston Mountain in the Cherokee National Forest.

Owned by the Glenwood Communications Corporation, the station is sister to WKPT-TV and several radio stations, which all share studios on Commerce Street in Downtown Kingsport.

Repeaters

The station can also be seen on these repeaters. The main signal on channel 36 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.

Call letters	Channel	City of license	Transmitter location
WAPG-CD	14	Greeneville, Tennessee	Camp Creek Bald of Viking Mountain
WAPW-CD	19	Abingdon, Virginia, etc.	Brumley Mountain

History

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.^[1] 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,^[2] later revealed on to be Me-TV.^[3]

References

↑ "Harlan Community Television, Inc. Cable Line-Up". Harlan Community Television, Inc. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
↑ "WKPT's affiliation with ABC coming to an end". Kingsport Times-News. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
↑ "WKPT, WAPK announce new programming plan". Kingsport Times-News. Retrieved 2 February 2016.

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Television stations in the Tri-Cities, TN / VA region, including Johnson City - Kingsport - Bristol, TN and Bristol, VA

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Digital television	WETP-TV (2.1 PBS, 2.2 World, 2.3 Create) WCYB-TV (5.1 NBC, 5.2 CW, 5.3 Decades) WOPI-CD (9.1 Cozi TV) WJHL-TV (11.1 CBS, 11.2 ABC) WKPT-TV (19.1 MNTV, 19.2 Me-TV, 19.3 Cozi TV, 19.4 Heartland) WAPK-CD (36.1 Me-TV) WEMT (39.1 Fox, 39.2 Movies!) WLFG (68.1 rel., 68.2 RTV, 68.3 PBJ, 68.4 TFC)

Adjancent locals	Asheville, NC WLOS (13.1 ABC, 13.2 MNTV via WMYA-TV) WUNF-TV (33.1 PBS, 33.2 PBS Kids, 33.3 Explore) Bluefield, VA/WVA WVVA (6.1 NBC, 6.2 The CW, 6.3 Me-TV Boone, NC WLNN-CD (24.1 Independent) Knoxville, TN WBIR-TV (10.1 NBC, 10.2 Me-TV, 10.3 Justice Network) Roanoke, VA WDBJ-TV (7.1 CBS, 7.2 MNTV) Southeastern Kentucky WKPI (Pikeville)/WKHA (Hazard) (22.1/35.1 PBS/KET, 22.1/35.2 PBS Encore/KET2, 22.3/35.3 KY Channel) WYMT-TV (57.1 CBS, 57.2 This TV, Hazard KY)

Defunct stations	Tri-Cities TN W51AU 51 (ABC via WKPT-TV, Greeneville TN) Southwestern VA WSBN-TV 47 / WMSY-TV 52 (PBS, Norton/Marion) Southeast KY W66AH 66 (PBS via KET/WKHA-TV, Whitesburg KY) W67AN 67 (PBS via KET/WKHA-TV, Letcher KY)

Tennessee broadcast television areas by city Chattanooga Jackson Knoxville Memphis Nashville Paducah, KY Tri-Cities Virginia broadcast television areas by city Bristol Bluefield Charlottesville Harrisonburg Norfolk Richmond Roanoke Washington, DC See also Charlotte TV

Other television stations in the state of Tennessee

Independent stations	WKNX 7 (Knoxville) W14CX-D 14 (Farragut) WCNT-LP 36 (Chattanooga) WDNN-CD 49/WTNB-CA 27/WRNG-LP 63/WSUT-LP 21/WLFW-LP 41 FamilyNet/IND Dalton, Georgia

Unknown affiliation	WETV-LP 11 (Murfreesboro)

Other stations	WYJJ-LD 27.1 Antenna TV/MNTV Jackson TN WAPK-CD 36.1 Me-TV Kingsport WHTN 39 CTN Murfreesboro WYHB-LP 39 A1 Chattanooga WLLC-LP 42 UniMás Nashville WPGD 50 TBN Hendersonville WJFB 44.1 TCT Lebanon

See also ABC CBS CW Fox Ion MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in Tennessee

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