WCSK
radio station in Kingsport, Tennessee
WCSK (90.3 FM) is a non-commercial, educational FM radio station in Kingsport, Tennessee, licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to the Kingsport Board of Education.
The radio studio is in Dobyns-Bennett High School. The WCSK radio transmitter is mounted on a tower atop Bays Mountain in Kingsport. It broadcasts at an effective radiated power of 195 watts. In addition to the city of Kingsport, the station's signal is heard in portions of Sullivan, Hawkins, and Washington counties in Tennessee, and in parts of Scott County, Virginia.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “WCSK” is radio station in Kingsport, Tennessee. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through WCSK, radio and station, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7948092. Authority coordinates are 36.527, -82.587. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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Three-step research path
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This entry incorporates text from “WCSK” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.