WNRP

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WNRP
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Broadcast area Pensacola metropolitan area
Frequency 1620 kHz
BrandingNewsRadio 92.3 FM/1620 AM
Programming
Format News/talk
Affiliations Westwood One
Fox News Talk
Fox News Radio
Salem Radio Network
Seminole ISP Sports Network
Ownership
OwnerADX Communications of Escambia
History
First air date
December 17, 1949;74 years ago (1949-12-17) [1]
Former call signs
WPHG (1997-2002)
WPNS (2002-2003)
WBUB (2003-2004) [2]
Call sign meaning
"News Radio Pensacola"
Technical information
Facility ID 87034
Class B
Power 10,000 watts days
1,000 watts nights
Transmitter coordinates
 30°26′12.00″N87°13′13.00″W / 30.4366667°N 87.2202778°W / 30.4366667; -87.2202778
Translator(s)
Links
Website www.newsradio923.com

WNRP (1620 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Gulf Breeze, Florida, and serving the Pensacola metropolitan area. [3] The station broadcasts a news/talk radio format and is owned by ADX Communications of Escambia. The radio studios and offices are at 7251 Plantation Road in Pensacola.

Contents

By day, WNRP is powered at 10,000 watts, with a non-directional signal. But to minimize interference at night to other stations, it reduces power to 1,000 watts. [4] In November 2016, NewsRadio 1620 began simulcasting on FM using two 250-watt FM translators: W222BR at 92.3 in Pensacola and on W237BE at 95.3 (to serve I-10 & north) in Clear Springs, Alabama. [5] WNRP can also be heard on WYCT - CatCountry 98.7's HD3 channel.

Programming

WNRP begins each weekday with the local radio shows, "The Pensacola's Morning News with Andrew McKay" and "The Pensacola Expert Pane", or PEP Talk, and ends the workday with another local show, "Pensacola Right Now." There are local talk shows in late mornings and during afternoon drive time. The rest of the weekday schedule includes nationally syndicated shows from "Markley, Van Camp and Robbins", "The Guy Benson Show", "Dave Ramsey, Brian Kilmeade, Lars Larson and "First Light." The station features news every half-hour from Fox News Radio along with local news from a local news team and simulcast news from WEAR-TV.

On weekends, WNRP features shows on money, health, religion, farming, gardening, guns and home repair. Weekend hosts include Gary Sullivan, Joe Pags, Eric Metaxas, Hugh Hewitt and Doug Stephan. The station also carries live sports including Florida State University football.

History

1580 AM

WNRP is the "expanded band" successor to a station that transferred from the original AM band.

The original station signed on December 12, 1949 as WATM, licensed to the Southland Broadcasting Company in Atmore, Alabama, and broadcasting with 250 watts of power on 1580 kHz. [6] Southland was owned by local broadcaster Tom Miniard and his wife Ernestine. [7] In 1956 it moved to 1590 kHz, and increased power to 1,000 watts. [8] In 1959, the station upgraded to a 5,000-watts. [9] This frequency, signal power, and ownership would be maintained unchanged for another two decades. [1]

WATM was sold in the early 1980s, and changed its call letters to WSKR on May 5, 1986. [10] The "Kicker" changed its call sign again on December 7, 1987, this time to WIZD, and began simulcasting its FM sister station. [10] Months later, the station was sold to a religious group, the Maranatha Ministries Foundation, who changed the call letters to WGYJ, said to stand for "We Give You Jesus", [11] on March 2, 1988. [10]

Expanded Band assignment

On March 17, 1997 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that 88 stations had been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with WGYJ authorized to move to 1620 kHz. [12] The Maranatha Ministries Foundation, WGYJ's licensee, received its original construction permit for operation on 1620 kHz from the FCC on October 6, 1997. [13] The new station, with Atmore, Alabama as its community of license, was assigned the call letters WPHG on November 12, 1997. [2] This call sign was said to stand for "We Proclaim His Glory". [11] [14]

The FCC provided that both the original station and its expanded band counterpart could optionally operate simultaneously for up to five years, after which owners would have to turn in one of the two licenses, depending on whether they preferred the new assignment or elected to remain on the original frequency. By February 1998, WPHG on 1620 kHz had begun broadcast operations while its license application was pending. With the expanded band station now on the air, WGYJ ceased operations on 1590 kHz, and its broadcast license was canceled on September 11, 1998. [15]

In September 2000, Maranatha reached an agreement to sell WPHG to ADX Communications of Escambia. (WPHG-FM, the FM sister station, was sold to a different group at the same time.) [16] The deal was approved by the FCC on November 16, 2000, and the transaction was consummated on March 5, 2001. [17]

Move to Florida

In October 2000, with the sale pending, the permit holder petitioned the FCC to change the station's community of license to Gulf Breeze, Florida, so that it could better serve the more lucrative Pensacola, Florida, area. The FCC granted a construction permit for this move on July 10, 2002. [18] With the move approved, the station applied to the FCC for new call letters and on August 19, 2002, was assigned WPNS to reflect the new Pensacola orientation. [2] On March 21, 2003, the station switched its call sign to WBUB then again on July 27, 2004, to the WNRP. [2]

After a move across state lines, an ownership change, several formats and callsign changes, and more than eight years, WNRP finally received its license to cover from the FCC on August 3, 2005. [19] In late 2005, Dave and Mary Hoxeng debuted "Classic Country AM1620" with live personalities including Pensacola native and Nashville legend Larry Butler.

The station previously aired the games of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, the Pensacola Pelicans baseball team and of the Pensacola Ice Pilots hockey team until the ECHL terminated the team's franchise after the 2007-2008 season. [20]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "Call Sign History for operation on 1620 kHz". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database (Facility ID: 87034).
  3. ↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
  4. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/WNRP
  5. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/W222BR
  6. ↑ "Directory of AM, FM, and TV Stations of the United States". Broadcasting-Telecasting 1950 Yearbook. Washington, D.C.: Broadcasting Publications, Inc. 1950. p. 69.
  7. ↑ "Politics, casino dominate 2008". The Atmore Advance. January 5, 2009.
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  10. 1 2 3 "Call Sign History for operation on 1580/1590 kHz". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database (Facility ID: 39888).
  11. 1 2 "AM Technical Profile: WNRP". Alabama Broadcast Media Page. Retrieved January 21, 2009.
  12. ↑ "FCC Public Notice: Mass Media Bureau Announces Revised AM Expanded Band Allotment Plan and Filing Window for Eligible Stations" (FCC DA 97-537), March 17, 1997.
  13. ↑ "Application Search Details (BP-19970611AF)". FCC Media Bureau. October 6, 1997.
  14. ↑ Nelson, Bob (November 30, 2008). "Call Letter Origins". The Broadcast Archive. Retrieved January 21, 2009.
  15. ↑ Station Search Details: DWGYJ (Facility ID: 39888)
  16. ↑ "FMs - 2000-09-11". Broadcasting & Cable. September 11, 2000.
  17. ↑ "Application Search Details (BAP-20000928ABH)". FCC Media Bureau. March 5, 2001.
  18. ↑ "Application Search Details (BMAP-20001019AAA)". FCC Media Bureau. July 10, 2002.
  19. ↑ "Application Search Details (BL-20031205BUA)". FCC Media Bureau. August 3, 2005.
  20. ↑ "Pensacola Membership Terminated" (Press release). ECHL. June 23, 2008.
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