Broadcast area |
Pikeville, Tennessee Bledsoe County, Tennessee |
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Frequency | 1110 AM kHz |
Branding | "1110 WUAT" |
Programming | |
Format | Variety [1] |
Ownership | |
Owner |
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History | |
First air date | December 19, 1972 [3] |
Former call signs | WUAT (1972–Present) [4] |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 10397 |
Class | D |
Power | 250 Watts daytime only |
Transmitter coordinates | 35°36′18.0″N 85°11′14.0″W / 35.605000°N 85.187222°W |
WUAT is a Variety formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Pikeville, Tennessee, serving Pikeville and Bledsoe County, Tennessee. [1] WUAT is owned and operated by Vicki R. Smith and Johnny William Paul Bridges, through licensee WUAT, LLC. [2] [5]
In 1995, Dr. Charles Bownds and his wife Joyce, originally from Houston, Texas, purchased WUAT. [6]
The station's studios are within the Mini-Outlet store, also owned by the Bownds, along Main Street in Pikeville. [6] Joyce Bownds, who was also the station's morning disc jockey, died on January 31, 2016. [7] On March 18, 2016, ownership of the station was transferred to the Estate of Joyce Virginia Bownds, with her husband Dr. Charles P. Bownds as the executor. [8]
The Estate of Joyce Virginia Bownds entered into an agreement with Vicki R. Smith and Johhny William Paul Bridges, both of Pikeville, on August 24, 2016. [5] [9] The sale to Smith and Bridges' WUAT, LLC, at a price of $20,000, was consummated on October 17, 2016.