WHIY

WHIY
City Huntsville, Alabama
Broadcast area Tennessee Valley
Slogan "Party Blues and Oldies"
Frequency 1600 kHz
First air date March 20, 1958
Format Urban oldies and Blues
Power 5,000 watts (day)
500 watts (night)
Class B
Facility ID 28118
Transmitter coordinates 34°45′32″N 86°38′35″W / 34.75889°N 86.64306°W / 34.75889; -86.64306
Former callsigns WEUP (1958-2006)
WEUV (1/06-2/06)[1]
Owner Broadcast One
(Hundley Batts, Sr. & Virginia Caples)
Sister stations WEUP (AM), WEUP-FM, WEUV, WEUZ
Website whiyam.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 station's studios and transmitter are both co-located along Jordan Lane (U.S. Highway 231) in Northwest Huntsville.

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]

In the 1980s, the station aired a country music format. 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.

Ownership

In August 1987, WEUP co-founder Viola Garrett's Garrett Broadcasting reached an agreement to sell WEUP to the married couple of Hundley Batts, Sr. and Dr. Virginia Caples. The deal was approved by the FCC on September 29, 1987, and the transaction was consummated on November 1, 1987.[5] The couple 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.

References

  1. 1 2 "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.
  5. ↑ "Application Search Details (BAL-19870819EA)". FCC Media Bureau. November 1, 1987.


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