urban contemporary
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format
radio station
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that serves
north Alabama
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and south-central
Tennessee
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,
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. Its programming is a simulcast of co-owned WEUP-FM. This programming is also simulcast on several broadcast translators. The station's studios are located along Jordan Lane ( U.S. Highway 231) in Northwest Huntsville, and its transmitter is located west of Goodspring, Tennessee.
This station was assigned the WEUZ
call letters
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by the
Federal Communications Commission
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on April 6, 2000.
Ownership
In 1987, a married couple, Hundley Batts, Sr. and Dr. Virginia Caples, acquired WXKI (92.1 FM, now WEUZ-FM), licensed to
Minor Hill, Tennessee
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History
Minor Hill is named for Joseph Minor, an early settler in the area. A later owner of the Minor tract donated part of it for the est ...
, (just north of the Alabama border). This followed their assumption of the ownership and operation of WEUP (AM). They combined these operations 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, now WEUV) and WXKI (103.1 FM, now WEUP-FM), both licensed to
Moulton, Alabama
Moulton is a city in Lawrence County, Alabama, and is included in the Decatur Metropolitan Area, as well as the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. Although it incorporated in 1819,WEUP (AM)) was later added to the group of stations that are part of the WEUP broadcast family.