Holston Valley Broadcasting

Holston also owns and operates a number of additional low power TV and Class A TV stations, licensed to various communities within the tri-Cities, TN/VA market, which relay the programming of one or more of WKPT-TV's three multicast streams. Late in the first decade of the 21st century Holston acquired WRZK(FM), Colonial Heights, TN, (which Holston had already operated under a Local Marketing Agreement [LMA] since the station's inception) and WVEK-FM, Weber City, VA. Additional "firsts" for Holston in the Tri-Cities market have included being first with FM Stereo, first with Stereo TV and secondary audio TV programming, first with AM Stereo using the system ultimately designated by the FCC, first to use video tape versus film for TV news field reporting, and first with "AM on FM" translators. The company regularly wins Associated Press Broadcasters Association awards for its news coverage, and in 2012 its WKPT-TV won the ABC Television Network's Alpha Award.