WHKT

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WHKT
WHKT-AM 2011.PNG
City of license Portsmouth, Virginia
Broadcast area Hampton Roads
Branding "Freedom 1650"
Frequency 1650 kHz
First air date 1999
Format Talk
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 / 36.80278°N 76.28278°W / 36.80278; -76.28278
Callsign meaning W Hampton (Roads) (The Big) KaT
location and former branding
Affiliations CBS Radio Network
Owner Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation
Sister stations WRJR
Webcast Listen Live
Website www.1650whkt.com

WHKT is a conservative (or right-leaning) Talk broadcast radio station, licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia serving the Hampton Roads market. WHKT is owned by Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation.

[edit] Station Sold

Logo as a Radio Disney affiliate, used until February 2007.

On January 25, 2010, Disney announced that it is selling the station to Hampton Roads area religious broadcaster Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting for $350,000. [1] 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.[2][3]

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

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