WYGI

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WYGI
Simulcast of WHPY-FM Bellevue
WHPY Hippie radio 94.5 logo.jpg
Broadcast area Nashville metropolitan area
Frequency 1430 kHz
BrandingHippie Radio 94.5
Programming
Format Classic hits
Ownership
OwnerKensington Digital Media, L.L.C.
WHPY-FM
History
First air date
September 14, 1958;65 years ago (1958-09-14) (as WENO)
Former call signs
WENO (1957–1977)
WJRB (1977–1988)
WWRB (1988)
WRLT (1988–1990)
WHNK (1990–1995)
WCKD (1995–1996)
WMAK (1996–2000)
WKDA (2000–2002)
WQDQ (2002)
WPLN (2002–2023)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 21473
Class B
Power 15,000 watts days
1,000 watts nights
Transmitter coordinates
 36°16′19″N86°42′53″W / 36.27194°N 86.71472°W / 36.27194; -86.71472
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website hippieradio945.com

WYGI (1430 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Madison, Tennessee, and serving the Nashville metropolitan area. WYGI and sister station WHPY-FM simulcast a classic hits radio format. They are owned by Kensington Digital Media and are known as "Hippie Radio." The stations focus on the "hippie era," playing the hits of the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

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By day, WYGI is powered at 15,000 watts non-directional. But at night, to protect other stations on 1430 AM from interference, it reduces power to 1,000 watts and uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array. The transmitter is on Nesbitt Lane in Nashville, near Gallatin Pike North (U.S. Route 31E). [2]

History

WENO and WQDQ

The station signed on the air on September 14, 1958;65 years ago. [3] Its original call sign was WENO. For its first few decades, WENO was a country music station and a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System.

It was owned by the Central Broadcasting Company with studios in Nashville. It was considered the first station to play country music during all of the broadcast day, not just at night as the legendary WSM 650 did for many years. AM 1430 went through several ownership, call letter and format changes over the years. It became WQDQ in 2002, simulcasting the news programming of local CBS television affiliate WTVF and its affiliated cable outlet.

Nashville Public Radio

On April 1, 2002, the station was acquired by Nashville Public Radio. WQDQ became WPLN on April 9, 2002. The station was generally considered to be financially marginal, which is why the frequency was available for sale to the local public radio board, due to lack of interest by potential commercial buyers. Nashville Public Radio was able to put most of its spoken word programs on its AM station, while allowing its FM station, 90.3 WPLN-FM to devote some hours to music programming.

WPLN was part of a trend for large cities to have multiple public radio outlets carrying distinct formats. However, with Nashville Public Radio's purchase of Vanderbilt University student station WRVU and converting it to an all-classical music format as WFCL, WPLN-FM's format was changed on June 8, 2011, to an all-news-and-talk format. (WFCL is now WNXP and changed in 2020 to an adult album alternative format, with classical music moving to a WPLN-FM HD-2 signal.)

The former call sign WPLN originated from Public Library of Nashville, reflecting the original status of public radio in Nashville as a subsidiary of the public library. Although the library and the radio station had developed separate operations and boards of directors well before the addition of the AM station, the FM radio had retained the 'PLN' moniker.

As of March 2020, WPLN was also heard on its sister station WPLN-FM's HD3 channel. From May 2011 until March 2020, it was previously heard on the HD2 subchannel. In 2020, WPLN converted its format to the BBC World Service, broadcasting its programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week. All other programs were dropped.

WYGI

On September 20, 2022, Nashville Public Radio announced that it was selling WPLN to Kensington Digital Media. [4] WPLN signed off the air at noon on December 22, 2022, in preparation for the sale to Kensington Digital Media.

Kensington announced that it planned to debut a new format after the New Year in 2023 and change the station's call sign to WYGI. [5] The BBC World Service and the WPLN International format continued to be broadcast on the WPLN-FM HD3 subchannel. AM 1430 began simulcasting WHPY-FM 94.5. The call sign change occurred on January 10, 2023.

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WYGI". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "WYGI-AM 1430 kHz - Madison, TN". radio-locator.com.
  3. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-196, Broadcasting & Cable
  4. ↑ "Nashville Public Radio Sells 1430 WPLN". RadioInsight. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
  5. ↑ "2022 Post-Christmas Format Change Rundown".
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