WCPC (940 AM) is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

broadcasting a

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format. Licensed to

Houston, Mississippi Houston is a city in and one of two county seats of Chickasaw County, in northern Mississippi, United States. The population was 3,623 at the 2010 census. History Native American groups had long used the future Chickasaw County for millennia b ...

, United States, the station serves the Tupelo area. The station is currently owned by Cajun Radio Corporation and features programming from

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. Among the locally produced programs on WCPC is "The Sacred Harp Hour", a half-hour Sunday morning broadcast of

Sacred Harp Sacred Harp singing is a tradition of sacred choral music that originated in New England and was later perpetuated and carried on in the American South. The name is derived from ''The Sacred Harp'', a ubiquitous and historically important tune ...

singing. Since 1959, this program has featured recorded (occasionally live) singing, along with announcements of current and upcoming singings. A CD of some of these performances was issued in 2006.

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