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Recent WOPI / AP entertainment news videos:
Click HERE for local news.
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Click HERE to view an article from a late 1940’s edition of RCA’s BROADCAST NEWS, a then
popular broadcast industry trade magazine. The article details some of the early trials and
tribulations of Tri-Cities first FM station.....WOPI-FM.
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Many great disc jockeys have worked at WOPI-AM, including Tennessee Ernie Ford! |
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Many great entertainers have visited WOPI over the decades:
Bob Crosby |
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1940 radio superstars, Lum & Abner. |
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WOPI studios in the 1930s. |
WOPI studios in the 1940s. |
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Paul Culp, 1979 owner and part time DJ. |
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In front of the old WOPI main studio at State & 22nd Street in Bristol. |
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"Man on the Street" photo of radio announcer Fey Rogers, circa late 1930s. |
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Here's a WOPI News Report from the Fall of 1955 featuring broadcaster Harold "Hap" Henley.
8 1/2 minute running time. |
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The lost tapes of W. A. Wilson. In 1970, W. A. Wilson (the original owner of WOPI-AM) was interviewed by WOPI radio announcer, Doug Ford. The session was taped and divided into 3 segments to be broadcast on the air. Recently the original reel to reel tape was discovered by Holston Valley Broadcasting President George DeVault and digitized by Charlie Aesque. All 3 segments are below, uncut, and original. Average time is 8 to 9 minutes apiece. This interview has not been heard by the public since 1970. |
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W. A. Wilson Interview #1 |
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W. A. Wilson Interview #2 |
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W. A. Wilson Interview #3 |
WOPI is the home of the Tennessee High Vikings!!
Here's what's going on at WOPI today.
Visit our Sister Stations.
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WOPI-AM Radio is an affiliate of both ABC and The WKPT RADIO NETWORK and carries WKPT Network programming approximately 150 hours each week. On Saturdays 9:30AM - 6:00PM and Sundays from 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM WOPI returns to its original bluegrass and "old time" country roots. It is to that special weekend programming and to the history of WOPI, the first broadcast station in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, that this website is dedicated.......................
Weekend schedule 
J.W. Addison
The Fabulous Vanover Sisters
History of WOPI
Mack Blevins
Larry Gorley
Job Openings
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