WHIY

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WHIY
City of license Huntsville, Alabama
Broadcast area Tennessee Valley
Slogan "Party Blues and Oldies"
Frequency 1600 kHz
Format Urban oldies and Blues
Power 5000 watts (day)
500 watts (night)
Class B
Facility ID 28118
Transmitter Coordinates 34°45′32″N, 86°38′35″W
Former callsigns WEUP[1]
Owner Broadcast One
(Hundley Batts, Sr. & Virginia Caples)
Sister stations WEUP (AM), WEUV, WEUP-FM, WEUZ
Website http://www.weupam.com/

WHIY (1600 AM) is an Urban oldies and Blues music formatted radio station that serves Huntsville, Alabama, and the majority of the Tennessee Valley in north Alabama, United States.[2]

The WHIY call letters were on the co-owned 1190 AM signal until a 2006 re-alignment[3] with co-owned WEUV (originally 1700 AM)[4] and WEUP (originally 1600 AM)[1].

For most of the 2000s, this station's programming had been a simulcast of sister station WEUP. WHIY returned to independent programming in December 2007.

[edit] Ownership

In 1987, the married couple of Hundley Batts, Sr. and Dr. Virginia Caples assumed the ownership and operation of WEUP. They also acquired another station, WEUZ-FM (92.1 FM), licensed to Minor Hill, Tennessee, and brought WEUP onto the FM broadcast airwaves. They operated WEUP & WEUZ-FM under the parent company name of Broadcast One. They continued to expand the station's audience by acquiring WHIY (1190 AM) and WEUP-FM (103.1), both licensed to Moulton, Alabama, in 1989. WEUV (1700 AM) was later added to the group of stations that are part of the WEUP broadcast family.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b 1600 AM Call Sign History. FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  2. ^ Station Information Profile. Arbitron.
  3. ^ 1190 AM Call Sign History. FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  4. ^ 1700 AM Call Sign History. FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.

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