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WEUV
WEUV (1190 AM) is an urban contemporary gospel and urban adult contemporary formatted radio station licensed to Moulton, Alabama, that serves Huntsville, Alabama, and northwest Alabama, United States. The station's studios are located along Jordan Lane ( U.S. Highway 231) in Northwest Huntsville, and its transmitter is located in Moulton. Its programming is a simulcast of sister station WEUP (1700 AM). The WEUV call letters were on the 1700 AM signal until a 2006 re-alignment with co-owned WHIY (originally 1190 AM) and WEUP (originally 1600 AM). This station was assigned the WEUV call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on February 23, 2000. 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 (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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WEUP (AM)
WEUP (1700 AM) is an urban contemporary gospel and urban adult contemporary formatted radio station that serves Huntsville, Alabama, and the majority of the Tennessee Valley in North Alabama, United States. WEUP is dubbed "Huntsville's Heritage Station" because it was the first in the region to broadcast an urban format. It has an urban contemporary sister station called WEUP-FM. The station's studios and transmitter are both co-located along Jordan Lane ( SR 53) in Northwest Huntsville. WEUP is simulcast on WEUV (1190 AM) in Moulton, Alabama. History WEUP originated as the expanded band "twin" of the original WEUP, which began broadcasting on March 20, 1958 as a 1000-watt station at 1600 kilohertz (kHz) on the standard AM band. On March 17, 1997 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that eighty-eight stations had been given permission to move to newly available " Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with the original WEUP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |