WGPR
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| City | Detroit, Michigan |
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| Broadcast area | Metro Detroit [1] |
| Branding | Hot 107.5 |
| Slogan | "Interactive Hip-Hop & R&B" |
| Frequency | 107.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | December 6, 1961 |
| Format | Mainstream Urban |
| Power | 50,000 watts |
| HAAT | 123.5 meters (405 ft) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 70512 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°21′28″N 83°03′55″W / 42.35778°N 83.06528°W |
| Callsign meaning | Grosse Pointe Radio |
| Owner |
International Free and Accepted Modern Masons, operated under LMA by Radio One (WGPR, Inc.) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | hothiphopdetroit.com |
WGPR is an FM radio station in Detroit, Michigan broadcasting a Mainstream Urban format. Owned by the International Free and Accepted Modern Masons and operated under local marketing agreement by Radio One, the station operates on 107.5 MHz. Its studios along with those of WCHB, WPZR and WDMK are on Detroit's lower eastside. Their transmitter is located on atop the Maccabees Building on the campus of Wayne State University.
WGPR was founded on December 6, 1961, by broadcaster Ross Mulholland, who had worked at WJR and several other area stations. The original construction permit for the station bore the call letters WQTI (similar to Mulholland's easy listening-formatted AM station, 560 WQTE (now WRDT)), but the station was never on the air with those calls. Initially, WGPR featured programming similar to that of WQTE. The station was purchased in 1964 by its current owner, the International Free and Accepted Modern Masons (d/b/a WGPR, Inc.), led by William V. Banks, who would serve as president and general manager of WGPR and its sister TV station (founded in 1975) until his death in 1985. Under the ownership of the Masons, WGPR would transition to chiefly African-American-oriented programming of urban contemporary, R&B, soul, and gospel music, with some ethnic programs in Spanish, Italian, Greek, and other languages, which would remain a part of the station's broadcast schedule into the 1990s.
It is reported that the station's callsign meant Where God's Presence Radiates, but the original meaning was Grosse Pointe Radio, as the station was originally based out of a studio on Mack Avenue in Grosse Pointe Woods when it went on the air in 1961 (the original building still stands and houses a real estate agent). The current studios are located on East Jefferson in Detroit.
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