WPKV

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K-Love radio station in Duquesne–Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

title: "WPKV" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["radio-stations-in-pittsburgh", "k-love-radio-stations", "radio-stations-established-in-1967", "1967-establishments-in-pennsylvania", "educational-media-foundation-radio-stations", "christian-radio-stations-in-pennsylvania"] description: "K-Love radio station in Duquesne–Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" topic_path: "society/religion" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPKV" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary K-Love radio station in Duquesne–Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ::

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Field	Value
name	WPKV
logo	98.3 K-Love logo.png
logo_size	200px
city	Duquesne, Pennsylvania
area	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
branding	"98.3 K-Love"
frequency
translator	See
format	Christian adult contemporary
subchannels	HD2: Air1 (Contemporary worship music)
HD3: Boost Radio (Contemporary Christian)
erp	3,700 watts (analog)
148 watts (digital)
haat	246 m
class	B1
facility_id	21214
coordinates
owner	Educational Media Foundation
webcast	Listen Live
website	klove.com
callsign_meaning	"Pittsburgh's K-Love"
affiliations	K-Love
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WPKV (98.3 FM, "98.3 K-LOVE") is a non-commercial radio station that is licensed to serve Duquesne, Pennsylvania and is located in the Pittsburgh media market. The station is owned and operated by Educational Media Foundation and is an affiliate of K-LOVE, EMF's contemporary Christian music network.

History

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As WESA-FM

WPKV was originally adult top 40 WESA-FM, the sister station of WESA, and was licensed to Charleroi, Pennsylvania; first going on the air in 1967, and under the ownership of Laubach Radio Properties.

Created out of necessity to serve the Mon-Yough area because its AM sister was only licensed to operate during sunrise to sunset hours, WESA-FM offered some separate programming during the day, but at night, picked up where WESA was forced to leave off. Both stations became a full-time simulcast once new FCC regulations were passed eliminating the rule mandating that combination AM/FM license holders originate separate programming for half of the broadcast day.

As WZKT "Z98"

In 1998, WESA-FM abandoned its call letters and adult contemporary full-service format, and flipped to top 40 as WZKT (Z98), but that format would go away in January 2000, after it was sold to Keymarket Communications.

Keymarket, which had owned and operated "Froggy" branded country music stations throughout Pennsylvania already for ten years, had been looking to gain a foothold in the Pittsburgh market. The opportunity presented itself for Keymarket to acquire WESA and WZKT, and both stations were sold for $1.3 million.

Keymarket, in March 2002, petitioned the FCC for permission to change the station's city of license to Duquesne, allowing them to realize the intended goal of targeting Pittsburgh proper. By the end of the decade, Keymarket had acquired other signals surrounding Pittsburgh enough to target the city from a multitude of different frequencies, and could focus the station on possibly another format.

WPKV today

On August 28, 2009, Keymarket announced that it sold WOGI to Educational Media Foundation, which announced plans to bring the K-LOVE Christian Contemporary music format to Pittsburgh as early as September 1, 2009. This format is on the air today and the call letters were subsequently changed to WPKV.

In late 2018, WPKV added HD Radio to air sister channels Air1 and the new K-Love Classics.

Translators

WPKV programming is broadcast on the following translators:

References

(August 1, 2018). "FCC 335-FM Digital Notification [WPKV]". [[Federal Communications Commission]].
(August 29, 2009). "Pittsburgh's "Froggy 98.3" is being sold to contemporary Christian "K-Love"". Radio-Info.com.
"Master Station List [Air1]".
"How To Hear Boost".

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