WHPE-FM

WHPE-FM (95.5 MHz) is an FM radio station licensed to High Point, North Carolina, and serving the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina, including Greensboro and Winston-Salem. The station broadcasts a Christian talk and teaching radio format and is owned by the Charlotte-based Bible Broadcasting Network, which has Christian stations around the U.S. National religious leaders heard on WHPE-FM include Adrian Rogers, Chuck Swindoll, Joni Eareckson Tada and J. Vernon McGee.

WHPE-FM

High Point, North Carolina United States
Broadcast area	Piedmont Triad
Frequency	95.5 MHz
Programming
Format	Christian talk and teaching
Ownership
Owner	Bible Broadcasting Network
History
First air date	November 1947 (77 years ago) (1947-11)
Call sign meaning	High Point Enterprise (former newspaper owner) "Where His Praises Echo" (backronym)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	5164
Class	C1
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	159 meters (522 ft)
Translator(s)	96.7 MHz W244BB (Princeton, WV)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen live
Website	www.bbnradio.org

WHPE-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for non-grandfathered FM stations. In addition, it feeds a network of FM translator stations in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.

History

WHPE-FM signed on in November 1947, months after its AM counterpart, WHPE (1070). That makes WHPE-FM one of the oldest FM stations in North Carolina. Both stations were originally owned by the High Point Enterprise daily newspaper,^[2] from which the stations derived their call sign.

The newspaper sold the stations in 1953. The stations aired Christian programming in the 1960s. For a brief time in the early 1970s, they switched to Top 40 hits. The Bible Broadcasting Network acquired WHPE-AM-FM in October 1974, as the network's second station; the price was $650,000.^[3]

On October 28, 1986, just before a fund-raiser, the WHPE studios were damaged by an arson fire. The AM station was later sold and now broadcasts Christian programming in Spanish as WGOS.