WPEK

WPEK
City Fairview, North Carolina
Broadcast area Asheville, North Carolina
Branding ESPN Asheville
Slogan First For Sports in Western North Carolina
Frequency 880 kHz
Translator(s) 92.9 W225CJ (Asheville)
First air date 1988 (as WTZY)
Format Sports
Power 5,000 watts (Daytime)
Class D
Facility ID 41565
Callsign meaning PEaK (previous format)
Former callsigns WTZY (1988-2004)
Affiliations ESPN Radio
Owner iHeartMedia, Inc.
(Clear Channel Broadcasting Licenses, Inc.)
Sister stations WKSF, WQNQ, WQNS, WWNC, WMXF
Webcast Listen Live
Website espnavl.iheart.com

WPEK (880 AM), known as "ESPN Asheville", is a daytime-only AM radio station in Asheville, North Carolina. It is licensed to the nearby town of Fairview.

History

WPEK former logo

WTZY signed on in the mid-'90s with a talk radio format, the second Asheville area station to air Rush Limbaugh (after WSKY).

When the station's talk programming was moved to WWNC, WTZY became WPEK "The Peak", a classic country station. Later, the format was adult standards.

In 2004,[1] the format was switched to progressive talk. For several years, much of the programming came from Air America Media. Today the station broadcasts talk shows by hosts Bill Press, Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz,[2] and Norman Goldman.

In 2010, WPEK dropped Thom Hartmann, who moved to WPVM, to add their first local weekday hosts Lesley Groetsch and Blake Butler, whose "Local Edge Radio" includes "politics, arts and entertainment, live music and local listener call-ins".[3]

Weekend programing includes Mountain Music Time, a program of traditional bluegrass and mountain music broadcast on Saturday mornings, followed by an hour of the Errington Thompson Show. The remainder of the weekend is syndicated and sponsored national programming.

On June 11, 2018 WPEK changed their format from progressive talk to sports, branded as "ESPN Asheville" with programming from ESPN Radio. The progressive talk programming still branded "The Revolution" was moved to 101.1 FM W266CP Candler/WKSF-HD3 Old Fort.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Citizen-Times Article". Archived from the original on 2007-07-01. Retrieved 2007-04-30.
  2. ↑ Kiss, Tony (2010-01-22). "Air America radio network's demise to have little local impact". Asheville Citizen-Times. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
  3. ↑ "More changes come to 880-AM radio station". Asheville Citizen-Times. 2010-02-15. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
  4. ↑ ESPN Returns to Asheville as Revolution Moves to FM Radioinsight - June 11, 2018

Coordinates: 35°32′48″N 82°28′15″W / 35.54667°N 82.47083°W / 35.54667; -82.47083

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