WGSP-FM (102.3 MHz) is a radio station licensed to the community of

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, and serving the greater Charlotte, North Carolina, area. The station is owned by Norsan Broadcasting of Atlanta, Georgia. It airs a Tropical music /

Latin Pop Latin pop (in Spanish and in Portuguese: Pop latino) is a pop music subgenre that is a fusion of US–style music production with Latin music genres from anywhere in Latin America and Spain. Originating in Spanish-speaking musicians, Latin po ...

format.

History

WCPL-FM was located in

. In 1989, the station became WMAP-FM and began airing the same programming as WMAP in

Monroe, North Carolina Monroe is a city in and the county seat of Union County, North Carolina, United States. The population increased from 32,797 in 2010 to 34,551 in 2020. It is within the rapidly growing Charlotte metropolitan area. Monroe has a council-manager f ...

. After WMAP went off the air, the FM, later known as WRML, played

Southern gospel Southern gospel music is a genre of Christian music. Its name comes from its origins in the southeastern United States. Its lyrics are written to express either personal or a communal faith regarding biblical teachings and Christian life, as ...

music. In 2006, Norsan took over the station and made plans to move the transmitter closer to the metropolitan area. The programming was also aired on WXNC, at 1060 AM and WGSP, at 1310 AM. Charlotte listeners began receiving the stronger signal in September 2007. The station was assigned the WGSP-FM call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on September 26, 2007. On January 1, 2009, "La Raza" began airing on

WOLS Wols was the pseudonym of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (27 May 19131 September 1951), a German painter and photographer predominantly active in France. Though broadly unrecognized in his lifetime, he is considered a pioneer of lyrical abstracti ...

, which Norsan Media began leasing, and WGSP-FM simulcast WOLS for a short time before a switch to tropical music / Latin pop format.

As of 2013, WRML was called "Latina 102.3".

References

External links

* GSP-FM Regional Mexican radio stations in the United States GSP-FM Radio stations established in 1978 {{SouthCarolina-radio-station-stub