WHPE-FM

{{short description|Bible Broadcasting Network radio station in High Point, North Carolina}}

{{Infobox radio station

| name = WHPE-FM

| logo =

| city = High Point, North Carolina

| country = US

| area = Piedmont Triad

| branding =

| frequency = 95.5 MHz

| translators = {{Radio Relay|96.7 MHz|W244BB|Princeton, WV}}

| airdate = {{start date and age|1947|11|p=y}}

| format = Christian talk and teaching

| erp = 100,000 watts

| haat = {{convert|159|m|ft|sp=us}}

| class = C1

| licensing_authority = FCC

| facility_id = 5164

| callsign_meaning = {{ubl|High Point Enterprise (former newspaper owner)|"Where His Praises Echo" (backronym)}}

| former_callsigns =

| affiliations =

| owner = Bible Broadcasting Network

| licensee =

| sister_stations =

| webcast = {{listenlive|http://www.bbnradio.org/jwplayer/players/browsers/english.htm}}

| website = {{URL|http://www.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,{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/rdurw/fm.html|title=Raleigh-Durham FM Dial|access-date=April 27, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030201081556/http://www.geocities.com/rdurw/fm.html|archive-date=February 1, 2003}} 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36837244/|date=July 1, 1974|work=High Point Enterprise|title=Religious Group Buys WHPE|access-date=October 6, 2019|page=1B}}

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|http://www.bbnradio.org/}}
{{FM station data|5164|WHPE-FM}}

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Category:Bible Broadcasting Network

Category:Radio stations established in 1947

Category:1947 establishments in North Carolina

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