WKPT-TV (channel 19) is a television station licensed to Kingsport, Tennessee, United States, serving the Tri-Cities area as an affiliate of Cozi TV.

It is owned by Glenwood Communications Corporation alongside low-power Class A MeTV affiliate WAPK-CD (channel 36) and several radio stations, including WKPT (1400 AM).

All of the outlets share studios on Commerce Street in downtown Kingsport; WKPT-TV's transmitter is located on Holston Mountain in the Cherokee National Forest.

Before WKPT signed on, WLOS included the Tri-Cities as part of its primary coverage area as it was widely available over the air (from a transmitter on Mount Pisgah that provided city-grade picture quality) and on cable.

As a result, the easily receivable signal from WLOS, 110 miles (180 km) away, was always blacked out on cable systems in the Tri-Cities any time both stations were broadcasting ABC programming.

It then sent the signal via private microwave to a relay station 70 miles (110 km) line-of-sight east to Camp Creek Bald on the Tennessee–North Carolina border in southern Greene County, Tennessee.

Whenever any part of WKPT-TV's private microwave relay system malfunctioned, as it did periodically because of heavy snowfall or downed trees, station engineers were forced to broadcast the signal of either WTVK or WLOS whenever network programming was airing.

Ironically, the AT&T network signals for WJHL and WCYB were both delivered from Greenville, South Carolina, to the phone company microwave that is also atop Camp Creek Bald that fed the Knoxville television stations.

Under federal must-carry rules, broadcasters can either allow cable systems in their market to carry their signals for free or charge a fee under retransmission consent provisions.

Holston Valley Broadcasting president George DeVault stated that ABC had chosen to explore other options even after having agreed in principle to a five-year extension of WKPT's affiliation contract.

[8] However, the station never made much headway against WCYB and WJHL, choosing instead to focus on news in the immediate Kingsport area, largely ignoring Virginia entirely.

In 2009, WKPT began airing local news and weather briefs that were taped in advance using the resources of its sister radio stations.

In March 2012, these cut-ins began resembling abbreviated newscasts featuring contributions from the first reporter hired by WKPT-TV in its modern reincarnation, Ashton Bishop.

After hiring more personnel, WKPT resumed traditional full-length newscasts (which were seen weeknights at 6 and 11) on March 4, 2013, with anchors Jim Bailey and Liz Marrs.