WEUZ

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WEUZ
Broadcast area Huntsville, Alabama
Frequency 92.1 MHz
Branding103.1 WEUP
Programming
Format Urban Contemporary (WEUP-FM simulcast)
Ownership
Owner
  • Broadcast One
  • (Hundley Batts, Sr. & Virginia Caples)
WEUP (AM), WEUP-FM, WEUV, WHIY
History
First air date
1987
Former call signs
WLLX, WYBM, WEUP-FM [1]
Call sign meaning
a variation of WEUP
Technical information [2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 7053
Class A
ERP 2,600 watts
HAAT 146 meters (479 feet)
Transmitter coordinates
35°07′18″N87°11′17″W / 35.12167°N 87.18806°W / 35.12167; -87.18806
Translator(s) (see below)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website www.103weup.com

WEUZ (92.1 FM) is an urban contemporary format radio station that serves north Alabama and south-central Tennessee, United States. [3] 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.

Contents

This station was assigned the WEUZ call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on April 6, 2000. [1]

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, (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, in 1989. The stations were sold to Hundley Batts and Virginia Caples as part of a two-station deal by Moulton Broadcasting Co. Inc. (WHIY) and Lawco FM Ltd. (WXKI). [4] WEUV (1700 AM, now WEUP (AM)) was later added to the group of stations that are part of the WEUP broadcast family.

Translators

Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) Class FCC info
W275AA102.9 FM Huntsville, Alabama 1734910D LMS
W238AD95.5 FM Trinity, Alabama 5346713D LMS

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References

  1. 1 2 "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  2. "Facility Technical Data for WEUZ". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. "Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
  4. Holmes, Alisa (1999-05-10). "Changing Hands". Broadcasting & Cable.