WPGP (1250 AM) is a radio station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, broadcasting with a power output of 5,000 watts.

[5] Kaufmann and Baer's was purchased in 1925 by Gimbels; this made WCAE the company's third radio station, after WIP in Philadelphia and WGBS in New York City.

[3] The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement moved the station to 1250 kHz on March 29, 1941;[11] on November 1, it became a full-time affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System (which previously aired on both WCAE and KQV), with NBC Red moving to KDKA.

[25] Hosts included Jack Bogut, Lynn Cullen, Doug Hoerth and Phil Musick.

[27] Chancellor Media bought SFX's Pittsburgh stations a year later,[28] and then traded WTAE to Jacor in exchange for WKNR in Cleveland, Ohio in August 1998.

[29] Jacor changed the call letters to WEAE to disassociate the station from WTAE-TV, which remained owned by Hearst-Argyle.

[32] Mark Madden was a host on the station from 1998[30] until his firing in May 2008 for making an on-air remark that he wished that Sen. Edward Kennedy be assassinated.

[33] Madden returned to the Pittsburgh airwaves on October 13, 2008, with an afternoon drive show on competitor WXDX, which is otherwise a modern rock station.

[32][36] Although WEAE was generally the top-rated sports station in Pittsburgh, ahead of WBGG, it was a financial failure (at one point losing as much as $2 million)—a problem that only worsened when KDKA-FM was launched as an FM sports station and wooed away some of WEAE's advertisers.