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| Broadcast area | Piedmont Triad |
| Frequency | 95.5MHz |
| Programming | |
| Format | Christian talk and teaching |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Bible Broadcasting Network |
| History | |
First air date | November 1947 (77 years ago) (1947-11) |
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| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 5164 |
| Class | C1 |
| ERP | 100,000watts |
| HAAT | 159 meters (522 ft) |
| Translator(s) | 96.7 MHz W244BB (Princeton, WV) |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | www |
WHPE-FM (95.5MHz) is anFMradio stationlicensed toHigh Point, North Carolina, and serving thePiedmont Triad region ofNorth Carolina, includingGreensboro andWinston-Salem. The station broadcasts aChristian talk and teachingradio format and is owned by theCharlotte-basedBible Broadcasting Network, which has Christian stations around the U.S. National religious leaders heard on WHPE-FM includeAdrian Rogers,Chuck Swindoll,Joni Eareckson Tada andJ. Vernon McGee.
WHPE-FM has aneffective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000watts, the maximum for non-grandfathered FM stations. In addition, it feeds a network ofFM translator stations in North Carolina,Virginia andWest 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 theHigh Point Enterprise daily newspaper,[2] from which the stations derived theircall 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 toTop 40 hits. TheBible 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 anarson fire. The AM station was later sold and now broadcasts Christian programming inSpanish asWGOS.
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