WYFQ

WYFQ
City	AM: Charlotte, North Carolina FM: Wadesboro, North Carolina
Broadcast area	Charlotte, North Carolina
Branding	BBN Radio
Slogan	"Where You Find Quality"
Frequency	AM: 930 kHz FM: 93.5 MHz
First air date	1947
Format	Christian
Power	AM: 5,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (night)
ERP	FM: 8,700 watts
HAAT	FM: 169 meters
Class	AM: B FM: C3
Facility ID	AM: 5152 FM: 73965
Transmitter coordinates	AM: 35°16′0″N 80°54′5″W / 35.26667°N 80.90139°W / 35.26667; -80.90139 FM: 35°02′57″N 80°18′38″W / 35.04917°N 80.31056°W / 35.04917; -80.31056
Callsign meaning	Where You Find Quality
Former callsigns	AM: WIST (1947–1960s) WSOC (1960s-1992) FM: WRPL (1989–1996)
Owner	Bible Broadcasting Network
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	BBN station page Bible Broadcasting Network

WYFQ (930 AM) and WYFQ-FM (93.5 FM) are two stations broadcasting the Bible Broadcasting Network in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. The AM station operates with a power of 5,000 watts daytime and 1,000 watts nighttime. A directional antenna system is used during the station's nighttime hours. The FM station operates with a power of 8,700 watts, and is licensed to the city of Wadesboro, North Carolina. The FM station serves mainly as a repeater for the eastern portion of the Charlotte market.

History

The 930 frequency in the Charlotte market first went on the air with the call letters WIST in 1947. WIST was founded by Cosmos Broadcasting Company, and was a sister station to Columbia, South Carolina's heritage station WIS, as well as having an FM sister station (now WNKS). Its first studios were on North Tryon Street, two blocks from the square in uptown Charlotte.

As WIST, the station was initially an affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System, but by the late 1950s, it had dropped the network to become Charlotte's first independent radio station and Charlotte's first Top-40 station. Popular DJ's at that time included Jimmy Kilgo, Bob Chessen and Jim Martin.

In the early 1960s, in a rare move for broadcasters of the day, WIST traded frequencies with WSOC-AM at 1240 on the dial (now WHVN).

93-WSOC ("Good Music")

As WSOC, the 930 frequency became part of the legacy of Charlotte's second-oldest broadcasting company, and gained sister stations in WSOC-FM (103.7) and WSOC-TV (channel 9). The station's MOR music format and NBC Radio Network affiliation came to 930, as well as WSOC's heritage morning announcer Jack Knight.

Knight eventually was replaced as morning announcer by Denny Mills, and returned to the air on his old 1240 frequency on the then-WIST. Other popular announcers on WSOC in those days included Glenn Hamrick, Bill Currie and Jack Callaghan.

Carolina Basketball Network

In the early 1960s WSOC made the first serious attempt to produce and network the basketball games of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels beyond the immediate area of Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Durham. Bill Currie did the play-by-play announcing, and Jack Callaghan provided color commentary. The games aired in Chapel Hill on WCHL. Cox sold the network to the Village Broadcasting Company, owner of WCHL, in 1965.

NewsRadio 93

On August 16, 1976, WSOC dropped its music programming to become "NewsRadio 93", an all-news formatted station. It was the first in the Carolinas to do so.^[1] Much of its programming came from NBC Radio's News and Information Service (NIS) during its first year. When NBC dropped that service in 1977, WSOC remained all-news, adding local news personnel in the process. Popular newscasters on WSOC in those days included Jim Cundiff (air name Jim David) and the first female news director in North Carolina Leslie Wolfe (who married Cundiff while they worked as the morning drive news co-anchor team). Overnights, the station carried The Larry King Show from the Mutual Broadcasting System, and eventually Mutual's radio newscasts found their way into the daytime news programming of the station.

The Voice of Charlotte

WSOC's programming made a shift in 1978, as all-news programming was replaced in middays by a local talk show hosted by Dick Pomerantz. His hosting of the midday talk show was short lived, but other talk shows, both local and network, made their way to WSOC over the next four years. In addition to Pomerantz, popular talk hosts on the station included WCCB-TV afternoon children's host Tony Alexi. WSOC carried an extensive schedule of Atlanta Braves baseball games and North Carolina State University football and basketball.

AM 93-WSOC

By 1981, the decision was made to drop news and talk programming on WSOC, and the station went to an Adult standards music format ("The music that never goes out of style"). In an effort to retain its heritage, but differentiate the station from its Country-formatted sister station WSOC-FM, the station was branded in slogans and jingles as "AM 93-WSOC". The Larry King Show was retained overnights, and was joined for a time by a network sports-talk operation called Enterprise Radio. Popular announcers during this time included Jim Hutton, Ed Ross, Jim Wall and Mike Sheridan.

Three years later, former WBT program director Andy Bickel was hired as consultant and took the station into an Adult contemporary format. The format was not competitive with the other stations in Charlotte established in this format, and was abandoned early in 1985.

Country music and WSOC-FM simulcasts

WSOC's owners then tried to find a place for AM 93 within the established bounds of Country Music that WSOC-FM had carved out in their then-16 years in the format. At times, AM-93 was programmed separately in midday and evening hours, and simulcast the FM during morning and afternoon drive times.

WSOC's AM station began an experimental Country Oldies format dubbed "Country Gold 93", once again with a separate staff from the FM except during overnight hours. Morning announcer during this time was Jim Wall. Though it showed promise for gaining a toehold with the country audience in Charlotte, the owners abandoned the format early in 1986, except for Janet King's midday show, when the AM's ratings began to weaken,^[2] and WSOC AM-93 permanently became the shadowed sister of WSOC-FM.

Baseball

WSOC aired the Major League Baseball Atlanta Braves prior to 1986, when the station added the Class AA Charlotte O's baseball team. The station would continue to air a CBS radio major league baseball game of the week, the All-Star Game, and post-season games.^[3] The O's changed their name to the Knights in the 1988 season^[4] and in 1989, in addition to the Knights, WSOC planned to air 99 Chicago Cubs games, plus 25 games each from the Braves, the Baltimore Orioles and the Minnesota Twins.^[5]

Time for a change?

By the end of the 1980s, the only separate programming on WSOC AM-93 was college football and basketball, minor league baseball, and Sunday morning religious programming. One interesting innovation attempted during this period was to play music on WSOC while NASCAR races were being aired on WSOC-FM.

In 1990, the owners Cox Communications began to court a buyer for the 930 frequency, and in late 1991, it was announced that 930 AM was to be sold to the Bible Broadcasting Network. Cox also sold WSOC-FM to EZ Communications (which, after a series of mergers in the mid-to-late 1990s, is now owned by Beasley Broadcasting), but still owns WSOC-TV to this day.

The format change came on March 16, 1992.^[6]

Call Letters: WYFQ

BBN Comes to Charlotte

The original construction permit for 93.5 FM was obtained by Risden Lyon and his son, Allen Lyon in 1989. Risden Lyon died on December 31, 1991, and Allen carried on with the licensing process for another four years, obtaining the final construction permit for WRPL FM (93.5) in 1995. He constructed the station in the summer of 1995, and sold it to the Bible Broadcasting Network in February 1996.

WYFQ-FM aired its first broadcasts on February 12, 1996. The station airs the complete national program and music schedule of BBN, plus locally produced public affairs programming and public service announcements.

Popular announcers on the BBN Network include Mike Dize, Hank Farrior and Vic Gregory

As a BBN station, no commercial advertisements are broadcast. Funding is raised from listener donations.

When BBN began a Spanish-Language radio network Red de Radiodifusión Bíblica, some of its programming was aired on WYFQ. Programming on the station later returned to full-time English broadcasts.

Three months after purchasing the station, the entire operation of BBN moved from Chesapeake, Virginia to Charlotte, making WYFQ the flagship station for the network.

The station now broadcasts from the BBN Studios at 11530 Carmel Commons Boulevard in Charlotte.

Its operation was combined with BBN's already established Charlotte AM station as WYFQ AM and FM. Today, the combined stations share a station manager and the entire technical staff of BBN's English broadcast contributes to their operation.

References

↑ "WSOC-AM to Present Only News," Winston-Salem Journal, July 9, 1976.
↑ Jeff Borden, "New Vice President Takes Helm at WSOC", The Charlotte Observer, November 13, 1986, p. 31A.
↑ Jeff Borden, "WSOC Drops the Braves to Broadcast Charlotte O's", The Charlotte Observer, January 31, 1986, p. 11A.
↑ Stan Olson, "Charlotte Players Primed to Begin Life As Knights", The Charlotte Observer, April 8, 1988, p. 1D.
↑ "WSOC Radio to Fill Airwaves with Baseball", The Charlotte Observer, March 16, 1989, p. 9D.
↑ Tim Funk, "Beginning April 18, Tune into WCNC for a Little Bit of Country", The Charlotte Observer, March 28, 1992, p. 8C.

External links

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