WHRP
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| City | Gurley, Alabama |
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| Broadcast area | Huntsville, Alabama |
| Branding | 94.1 WHRP |
| Slogan | The Best Variety of R&B |
| Frequency | 94.1 MHz |
| First air date | 1996 (as WXQW) |
| Format | Urban Adult Contemporary |
| ERP | 710 watts |
| HAAT | 288 meters (946 feet) |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 22264 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°40′50″N 86°30′55″W / 34.68056°N 86.51528°W |
| Former callsigns | WDJU (3-11/1995) WXQW (1995-2007) |
| Owner |
Cumulus Media (Cumulus Licensing LLC) |
| Sister stations | WUMP, WVNN, WVNN-FM, WWFF-FM, WZYP |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | whrpfm.com |
WHRP (94.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Gurley, Alabama, USA. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and the license is held by Cumulus Licensing LLC. WHRP broadcasts an urban adult contemporary music format to the Huntsville, Alabama, market. Its transmitter is located southeast of downtown Huntsville, but its main studios are in Athens, Alabama.
Notable personalities on WHRP include local weekday hosts Toni Terrell with the "At Work Network" mid-days, Big O (a.k.a. The Mayor of Soul) Saturday mornings with Classic Soul on "The Time Tunnel", and Huntsville radio veteran Kevin "The Nighthawk" Williams weekends. Notable syndicated hosts include Tom Joyner of The Tom Joyner Morning Show, Michael Baisden of The Michael Baisden Show and Keith Sweat of The Keith Sweat Hotel.
Notable former on-air personnel include Bobby Wonder, Nia Noelle and Ronnie Rio.
Former WXQW mid-day host Chuck Boozer, apparently local, was actually the evening host at WWMG-FM in Charlotte, North Carolina. Boozer recorded his WXQW air shift in about forty minutes on a computer in Charlotte as digital voice tracks for later playback on the air in Huntsville. This use of "voice tracking" is a practice common to many Clear Channel-owned radio stations, as then-WXQW was at that time.
This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on January 19, 1995. The new station was assigned the call letters WDJU by the FCC on March 14, 1995.
In June 1995, control of permit holder Digesu Broadcasting, Inc., was transferred from Frank Digesu Sr. to R. Parker Griffith and Thomas H. Griffith. The transfer was approved by the FCC on August 9, 1995. In October 1995, Digesu Broadcasting, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station to Griffith Broadcasting, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on November 30, 1995, and the transaction was consummated on the same day. The new owners had the FCC change the callsign for the station, still under construction, to WXQW on November 10, 1995.
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