WHPY-FM (94.5 FM) is a

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licensed to

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, Tennessee, United States.

History

The station began in 1974 as WPCT at 94.3 FM and featured a

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

format. WPCT was licensed at the time to

Jackson, Tennessee Jackson is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Tennessee, United States. Located east of Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis, it is a regional center of trade for West Tennessee. Its total population was 68,205 as of the 2020 United States ...

. The station continued with country music until November 28, 2003, when it was sold to Grace Broadcasting, who flipped formats to

Christian Music Christian music is music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith. Common themes of Christian music include praise, worship, penitence, and lament, and its forms vary widely around ...

. In between those times, the station changed its callsign to WIST in 1983 and WFGZ in 1994, before becoming WHPY-FM in 2012. It was announced on December 13, 2011, that Grace Broadcasting would sell the station to Kensington Digital Media. The sale was finalized on January 3, 2012 as the station would also relocate from broadcasting in Jackson to Nashville and would be licensed to

Bellevue, Tennessee Bellevue is a neighborhood of Nashville, situated about 13 miles southwest of the downtown area via Interstate 40. It is served by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. The 2016 population estimate for Bellevue's two main z ...

, a Nashville neighborhood.https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1479843
/ref> At that time, KDM also changed formats to

classic hits Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV in the early 1980s ...

, branded as "Hippie Radio 94.5", but at present, WHPY-FM broadcasts largely an

oldies Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as we ...

format, with emphasis on music that received airplay on

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/CHR stations from the 1960s through the 1980s.

Notable DJs

Spider Harrison

References

External links

* HPY-FM Perry County, Tennessee Radio stations established in 1974 1974 establishments in Tennessee {{Tennessee-radio-station-stub