WHKT

WHKT
City Portsmouth, Virginia
Broadcast area Hampton Roads
Branding "1650 The Answer"
Frequency 1650 AM kHz
First air date 1999[1]
Format Conservative Talk Radio[2]
Power 10,000 Watts daytime
1,000 Watts nighttime
Class B
Facility ID 87170
Transmitter coordinates 36°48′10.0″N 76°16′58.0″W / 36.802778°N 76.282778°W / 36.802778; -76.282778
Callsign meaning W Hampton (Roads) (The Big) KaT
location and former branding
Former callsigns WAWT (1998-1998)
WHKT (1998-Present)[3]
Affiliations CBS Radio News
Premiere Networks
TheBlaze Radio Network
Owner Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation
Sister stations WPMH
Webcast WHKT Webstream
Website WHKT Online

WHKT is a Conservative Talk Radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads.[2] WHKT is owned and operated by Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation.[4]

Station Sold

On January 25, 2010, Disney announced that it is selling the station to Hampton Roads area religious broadcaster Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting for $350,000.[5] In the interim, Disney took WHKT, and five other stations slated to be sold, off the air on January 22; the station had previously carried the company's Radio Disney network.[6][7]

The sale was listed as "consummated" by the FCC as of May 5, 2010.

References

  1. Broadcasting Yearbook 2010 (PDF). ProQuest, LLC/Reed Publishing (Nederland), B.V. 2010. p. D-569. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Arbitron Station Information Profiles". Nielsen Audio/Nielsen Holdings. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  3. "Call Sign History". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  4. "WHKT Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  5. "Radio Disney Sells Another", AllAccess.com, January 25, 2010
  6. "Radio Disney Takes Six Stations Silent". All Access. January 28, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
  7. Zucker, John W (January 26, 2010). "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
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