WPUT (90.1 FM) is a

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to serve

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, United States. The station is owned by Dennis and Maureen Jackson, through licensee Foothills Public Radio, Inc. The station airs a

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and

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format.

History

This station received its original

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from the

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on January 22,

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. The new station was assigned the

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WVWA by the FCC on May 29, 2008. While still under construction, the station applied for a new call sign and was assigned WJJZ by the FCC on September 22, 2008. The station was assigned the WJZZ call letters by the FCC on March 31, 2009. The station changed its call sign to WQCD on October 2, 2014, and to WPUT-FM on June 2, 2015; on July 8, 2015, the "-FM" suffix was dropped.

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