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WPMH (1270 AM) is a Christian talk radio station licensed to Newport News, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads. The station is owned and operated by Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation.
The station's religious format, branded as "The Lighthouse", is also carried by two FM translator stations: W261DI at 100.1 MHz in Norfolk, Virginia, and W245CK at 96.9 MHz in Suffolk, Virginia.
The Eastern Broadcasting Corporation, owners of WCNS in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, received in April 1947 a construction permit for a new daytime-only radio station on 1270 kHz in Newport News, with call sign WHYU. The new station went on air September 27, 1947 as an independent local station; a year later, the Elizabeth City-based ownership sold WHYU for $60,000, citing the fact that they could not devote the necessary time or attention to its operation. In 1951, WHYU opened a studio in Hilton Village. WHYU's main studios were located at 114 24th Street, a former annex of the Hotel Warwick.
Eastern's biggest venture in its ownership of the station, however, came in the early 1950s, when the station applied for UHF channel 33 in Newport News. WACH-TV signed on the air for the first time on October 13, 1953. WACH-TV temporarily suspended operations on March 27, 1954, at which time the radio station also took on the WACH call sign. WACH-TV resumed operations later in 1954 and went off the air for the second time in 1955. However, the damage was done. WACH radio suspended operations on February 1, 1956, and a bankruptcy receiver was appointed.
Out of bankruptcy, WACH and its accompanying TV permit (despite remaining dark) were sold to the United Broadcasting Company of Eastern Virginia, owned by Richard Eaton, for $54,500 in 1956. The radio station returned to air as WYOU after being granted the new call sign on July 30, 1956.
WYOU's rhythm and blues format was the first stop in a long and noteworthy radio career. Under the name "Daddy Jules", a young Wolfman Jack became the station's star personality; he invited local teens to dance and make requests, which drew lines of 100 or more youth outside the studios and sent the ratings soaring.
In 1960, Eaton sold WYOU, now under the new WTID call sign adopted on September 15, 1960, to Twelve Seventy, Inc., headed by Max Reznick, for $130,000. The new WTID was an easy listening station; the former "Daddy Jules" became "Roger Gordon", but the format was not a fit for Wolfman Jack, who in a 1994 interview called the new ownership a "jerk" for changing the format and would leave in 1962 for a station in Shreveport, Louisiana. In December 1963, Twelve Seventy declared bankruptcy, the second in station history. WTID's 1964 license renewal application would only cloud matters further. In May 1965, the Federal Communications Commission designated the application for hearing, refusing the court-appointed trustee's bid to grant the renewal petition to pay off debtors, and in October, an FCC hearing examiner recommended the renewal application be denied. Issues in the hearing included an undisclosed investor, the Mutual Security Savings and Loan Association, and an undisclosed 1963 transfer of control to George Dail.
However, in April 1966, the FCC granted the renewal and the assignment of the WTID license to Big T Corporation. The owners of Big T were advertising agency head Alvin Epstein, air personality Milton Q. Ford, and Charleston, South Carolina, radio station owner Barry Winton; the station was to continue with its country format. Within months, Epstein bought Winton's stake; between 1967 and 1971, Norman Berger and Hyman Tash acquired control. The Big T era was also notable for the 1967 launch of sister station WTID-FM 104.5, which continued WTID's country format after sunset. Big T changed its name in 1972 to Musicradio Broadcasting Corporation.
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WPMH
WPMH (1270 AM) is a Christian talk radio station licensed to Newport News, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads. The station is owned and operated by Chesapeake-Portsmouth Broadcasting Corporation.
The station's religious format, branded as "The Lighthouse", is also carried by two FM translator stations: W261DI at 100.1 MHz in Norfolk, Virginia, and W245CK at 96.9 MHz in Suffolk, Virginia.
The Eastern Broadcasting Corporation, owners of WCNS in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, received in April 1947 a construction permit for a new daytime-only radio station on 1270 kHz in Newport News, with call sign WHYU. The new station went on air September 27, 1947 as an independent local station; a year later, the Elizabeth City-based ownership sold WHYU for $60,000, citing the fact that they could not devote the necessary time or attention to its operation. In 1951, WHYU opened a studio in Hilton Village. WHYU's main studios were located at 114 24th Street, a former annex of the Hotel Warwick.
Eastern's biggest venture in its ownership of the station, however, came in the early 1950s, when the station applied for UHF channel 33 in Newport News. WACH-TV signed on the air for the first time on October 13, 1953. WACH-TV temporarily suspended operations on March 27, 1954, at which time the radio station also took on the WACH call sign. WACH-TV resumed operations later in 1954 and went off the air for the second time in 1955. However, the damage was done. WACH radio suspended operations on February 1, 1956, and a bankruptcy receiver was appointed.
Out of bankruptcy, WACH and its accompanying TV permit (despite remaining dark) were sold to the United Broadcasting Company of Eastern Virginia, owned by Richard Eaton, for $54,500 in 1956. The radio station returned to air as WYOU after being granted the new call sign on July 30, 1956.
WYOU's rhythm and blues format was the first stop in a long and noteworthy radio career. Under the name "Daddy Jules", a young Wolfman Jack became the station's star personality; he invited local teens to dance and make requests, which drew lines of 100 or more youth outside the studios and sent the ratings soaring.
In 1960, Eaton sold WYOU, now under the new WTID call sign adopted on September 15, 1960, to Twelve Seventy, Inc., headed by Max Reznick, for $130,000. The new WTID was an easy listening station; the former "Daddy Jules" became "Roger Gordon", but the format was not a fit for Wolfman Jack, who in a 1994 interview called the new ownership a "jerk" for changing the format and would leave in 1962 for a station in Shreveport, Louisiana. In December 1963, Twelve Seventy declared bankruptcy, the second in station history. WTID's 1964 license renewal application would only cloud matters further. In May 1965, the Federal Communications Commission designated the application for hearing, refusing the court-appointed trustee's bid to grant the renewal petition to pay off debtors, and in October, an FCC hearing examiner recommended the renewal application be denied. Issues in the hearing included an undisclosed investor, the Mutual Security Savings and Loan Association, and an undisclosed 1963 transfer of control to George Dail.
However, in April 1966, the FCC granted the renewal and the assignment of the WTID license to Big T Corporation. The owners of Big T were advertising agency head Alvin Epstein, air personality Milton Q. Ford, and Charleston, South Carolina, radio station owner Barry Winton; the station was to continue with its country format. Within months, Epstein bought Winton's stake; between 1967 and 1971, Norman Berger and Hyman Tash acquired control. The Big T era was also notable for the 1967 launch of sister station WTID-FM 104.5, which continued WTID's country format after sunset. Big T changed its name in 1972 to Musicradio Broadcasting Corporation.