WPNS
| City | Evergreen, Alabama |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 1470 kHz |
| First air date | July 1, 1957 (as WBLO) |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 1,000 watts (day) 177 watts (night) |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 73372 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 31°26′29″N 86°56′08″W / 31.44139°N 86.93556°W |
| Former callsigns | WBLO (1957-1982) WEGN (1982-1988) WIJK (1988-2006) WPGG (2006-2011) WEVG (2011-2016) |
| Owner | Andala Enterprises, Inc. |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wpnsradio.com |
WPNS (1470 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Evergreen, Alabama, USA. The station, established in 1957, is currently owned by Andala Enterprises, Inc.
WPNS is currently broadcasting a news/talk format.
This station began broadcast operations on July 1, 1957, as 1,000 watt daytime-only AM station broadcasting at 1470 kHz. Licensed to Evergreen Broadcasting Corporation by the Federal Communications Commission to serve the community of Evergreen, Alabama, the new station was assigned the call letters WBLO. Evergreen Broadcasting Corporation was wholly owned by Clayton W. Mapoles. Ownership of WBLO changed to Haskew Radio Inc. in April 1962. Haskew Radio Inc. was owned 50/50 by George B. Haskew and Carl E. Jones.
WBLO was purchased in late 1969 by the Vogel-Moody Corporation, a division of Vogel Communications, for a reported sale price of $30,000. More than a decade of continuous ownership by the Vogel-Moody Corporation ended in March 1982 when Vogel Communications reached an agreement to sell this station to Stafford Broadcasting, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on May 6, 1982. The new owners had the station's callsign changed from WBLO to WEGN on August 2, 1982.
In December 1983, Stafford Broadcasting, Inc., contracted to sell WEGN to Davis Broadcasting, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on February 14, 1984, and the transaction was consummated on February 29, 1984. Davis Broadcasting encountered financial difficulties and the station fell into receivership in late 1986. The FCC accepted the application to name Wayne Stafford as receiver and transfer the station's broadcast license to him. The transfer was approved by the FCC on October 22, 1986. On October 28, 1986, receiver Wayne Stafford signed an agreement to sell WEGN to Wolff Broadcasting Corporation. The deal was approved by the FCC on December 10, 1986, and the transaction was consummated on December 31, 1986. After a transition period, the new owners applied for new call letters and the station was assigned WIJK on May 10, 1988.
More than a dozen years after acquiring it, Wolff Broadcasting Corp., reached an agreement to sell this station and its FM sister station to Gulf Broadcasting Company, Inc., in February 1999 for a reported combined sale price of $1.5 million. The deal was approved by the FCC on April 13, 1999, and the transaction was consummated on May 10, 1999. In June 2002, the station flipped to a sports talk format during the week and on Saturday with a black Gospel music format on Sundays.
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