WHPE-FM
- High Point, North Carolina
- United States
- High Point Enterprise (former newspaper owner)
- "Where His Praises Echo" (backronym)
- Public file
- LMS
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
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WHPE-FM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Raleigh-Durham FM Dial". Archived from the original on February 1, 2003. Retrieved April 27, 2010.
- ^ "Religious Group Buys WHPE". High Point Enterprise. July 1, 1974. p. 1B. Retrieved October 6, 2019.
External links
- Official website
- Facility details for Facility ID 5164 (WHPE-FM) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- WHPE-FM in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
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- WVBZ
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- WWNT
- WXRI
- WYMY
- WYSR
- WYZD
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- WBIG (1470 AM)
- WJOS (1540 AM)
- WRNC (1600 AM)
- Nearby regions
- Charlotte
- Fayetteville
- Raleigh-Durham
- Roanoke Rapids-South Hill
- Southwest Virginia
- Southside
35°55′11″N 80°01′46″W / 35.9196°N 80.0295°W / 35.9196; -80.0295
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