Broadcast area | Piedmont Triad |
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Frequency | 95.5 MHz |
Programming | |
Format | Christian talk and teaching |
Ownership | |
Owner | Bible Broadcasting Network |
History | |
First air date | November 1947 |
Call sign meaning |
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Technical information [1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 5164 |
Class | C1 |
ERP | 100,000 watts |
HAAT | 159 meters (522 ft) |
Translator(s) | 96.7 MHz W244BB ( Princeton, WV) |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | BBNradio.org |
WHPE-FM (95.5 MHz) is an FM radio station licensed to High Point, North Carolina, and serving the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina, including Greensboro and Winston-Salem. The station broadcasts a Christian talk and teaching radio format and is owned by the Charlotte-based Bible Broadcasting Network, which has Christian stations around the U.S. National religious leaders heard on WHPE-FM include Adrian Rogers, Chuck Swindoll, Joni Eareckson Tada and J. Vernon McGee.
WHPE-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for non- grandfathered FM stations. In addition, it feeds a network of FM translator stations in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.
WHPE-FM signed on in November 1947, months after its AM counterpart, WHPE (1070). That makes WHPE-FM one of the oldest FM stations in North Carolina. Both stations were originally owned by the High Point Enterprise daily newspaper, [2] from which the stations derived their call sign.
The newspaper sold the stations in 1953. The stations aired Christian programming in the 1960s. For a brief time in the early 1970s, they switched to Top 40 hits. The Bible Broadcasting Network acquired WHPE-AM-FM in October 1974, as the network's second station; the price was $650,000. [3]
On October 28, 1986, just before a fund-raiser, the WHPE studios were damaged by an arson fire. The AM station was later sold and now broadcasts Christian programming in Spanish as WGOS.
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