WGPL

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WGPL (1350 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Gospel Music format. Licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia, USA, it serves the Hampton Roads area. The station is currently owned by Christian Broadcasting of Norfolk.

The station had been on the air during the 1960s as WAVY-AM, sister station of WAVY-TV, doing a middle of the road format . Around 1970 the station was sold and began an adult contemporary format as "SeaView Radio" as WCVU, Around 1973, the station changed to Top 40 as WKLX, as "1050/K-L-X". In the summer of 1975 the station dropped music altogether and went all news as part of NBC's "News and Information Service" network as WNIS. When NBC shut down the network in 1977, the station became country as WHNE, "Honey Radio". Then in the mid eighties , switched to a news/talk format as WNIS. The original WNIS at 1050 was the charter station in Norfolk for the Rush Limbaugh Show.

In 1987, then-owner Sinclair Tele-cable purchased WRAP, a fifty thousand watt Urban station at 850 in Norfolk, where they switched 850 to the WNIS calls letters and news/talk format and moved the WRAP urban contemporary programming and WRAP call letters to the 1050 frequency . Sinclair later sold the station to Ragan Henry, who put the WSVY call letters of their co-owned FM sister station at 107.7 on the AM as well, and simulcasted the FM's adult urban format as WSVY AM/FM.

In 1996, Ragan Henry had merged with Clear Channel Communications, who sold the AM station to The Christian Broadcasting Network, who instituted the current gospel format and WGPL call letters.

[edit] External links

• official website
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WGPL
• Radio Locator Information on WGPL

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