WBZK
| City | York, South Carolina |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Charlotte/Metrolina |
| Branding | Praise 980 |
| Frequency | 980 kHz |
| First air date | April 19, 1956 |
| Format | Christian talk |
| Power | 3,000 watts (day) 167 watts (night) |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 74380 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°54′11″N 81°05′33″W / 34.90306°N 81.09250°W |
| Former callsigns | WYCL (1956–1978) WBZK (1978–2008) |
| Owner | Iglesia Nueva Vida of High Point |
WULR (980 AM) is an American radio station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to serve the community of York, South Carolina, USA. The station license is owned by Iglesia Nueva Vida of High Point.
WULR broadcasts various forms of religious programming, consisting largely of talk shows. Its programming is a simulcast of the programming broadcast by WCRU of Dallas, North Carolina.
Curtis Sigmon signed on WYCL at 1580 AM on April 19, 1956, with 250 watts. The station later moved to 980 AM, increased power to 1000 watts, and became WBZK. WDZK, at 99.3 FM in Chester, signed on in 1969.
For five years before the 1986-87 season, WDZK broadcast Winthrop University men's basketball.
On January 20, 1988, after 31 years as a day time-only station, WBZK broadcast at night for the first time, reducing its power after dark from 1000 watts to 290 watts. This meant better coverage of local government and sports, which included Clemson Tigers basketball and York Comprehensive High School football. The station continued to simulcast the adult contemporary music of its sister FM WDZK except for Sunday morning religious programming. York High games had been broadcast on the next day on tape; WDZK had broadcast Chester High School football for 20 years.
In 1990, WDZK moved from a tower three miles south of Chester to a 495-foot tower, the highest in the area, 10 miles north of Chester. WDZK increased its power from 3,000 to 6,000 watts. WBZK also moved to two new towers south of Rock Hill and increased power to 3,500 watts, giving the station six times as many listeners.
In 1993, WBZK and WDZK broadcast several Clemson women's basketball games, the first area stations to do so. In the same year, WDZK broadcast Charlotte Knights baseball.
In 1994, now-retired broadcaster and journalist Jon Mayhew worked the 9am to 5pm Monday through Friday airshifts. He also worked the weekends, producing a teen-oriented talk show on Saturday and overseeing the broadcast of Sunday morning religious programming. Mayhew left the station in mid-1994 for a stint at the Piedmont Superstations Radio Network, which was based at WOHS radio in Shelby. Mayhew, who lived in Mooresville, said the drive would be shorter to Shelby from Mooresville than from Mooresville to York, SC.
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