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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