WHPE-FM

Broadcast areaPiedmont TriadFrequency95.5 MHzProgrammingFormatChristian talk and teachingOwnershipOwnerBible Broadcasting NetworkHistoryNovember 1947 (76 years ago) (1947-11)Technical information^[1]FCCFacility ID5164ClassC1ERP100,000 wattsHAAT159 meters (522 ft)Translator(s)96.7 MHz W244BB (Princeton, WV)LinksWebcastListen liveWebsitewww.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.

History

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.

References

External links

• Official website
• WHPE in the FCC FM station database
• WHPE in Nielsen Audio's FM station database

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