WYPV
| City | Mackinaw City, Michigan |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area |
WYPV: [1] WHAK: Day [2] Night [3] WJNL: Day [4] Critical Hours [5] |
| Branding | Your Patriot Voice |
| Frequency |
WYPV: 94.5 MHz WHAK: 960 kHz WJNL: 1210 kHz |
| Translator(s) | W266CS 101.1 Traverse City |
| First air date | WYPV: September 6, 1989 WHAK: circa 1949 WJNL: April 17, 1947 |
| Format | Talk |
| Power |
WHAK: Day: 5,000 watts Night: 136 Watts WJNL: 50,000 watts (Daytime) WJNL: 2,500 watts (Critical Hours) W266CS: 250 watts |
| ERP | WYPV: 50,000 watts |
| HAAT | WYPV: 116 meters |
| Class |
WYPV: C2 WHAK: D |
| Facility ID |
WYPV: 53290 WHAK: 29289 |
| Callsign meaning |
WYPV: W Your Patriot Voice WHAK: W Harvey A. Klann (original owner) WJNL: Disambiguation of WJML calls (sister station) |
| Former callsigns |
WYPV: WSSW (10/8/86-7/19/93) WFGE (7/19/93-8/1/95) WLJZ (8/1/95-12/5/12) WOEZ (12/5/12-5/3/13) WJZJ (5/3/13-5/13/13) WJNL: WLDR (5/3/02-4/25/07) WWJR (1/24/02-5/3/02) WLDR (8/13/01-1/24/02) WJZZ (2/1/97-8/13/01) WKNX (1947-2/1/97) |
| Former frequencies | WYPV: 94.3 MHz (1989-1995) |
| Owner |
WYPV: Michigan Broadcasters, LLC WHAK: Edwards Communications WJNL: Mitten News LLC |
| Website | patriotvoice.net |
WYPV is an FM radio station at 94.5 MHz based in Mackinaw City, Michigan, which features a conservative talk radio format. Programming is simulcasted on WHAK-AM 960 licensed to Rogers City, Michigan, WJNL-AM 1210 licensed to Kingsley, Michigan, and FM translator W266CS 101.1 licensed to Traverse City, Michigan.
The license for what is now 94.5 FM was first issued in February 1985. The station's original call letters were WSSW (for the station's founder, Sonora S. Wray), which were first issued in October 1986. After a series of construction-related delays, WSSW first signed on at 94.3 in 1989 with an automated MOR format, but went dark not long after that. The station, while at 94.3, was initially assigned a Class A power output of 3,000 watts, which made the station all but unlistenable outside of the Mackinaw City-St. Ignace area, a seasonal, tourist-driven market barely able to sustain the competing radio stations that were already on the air and firmly established. WSSW's management thought that perhaps packing the station with tourist-related information for the local area would help reverse its fortunes. The station did improve, but not enough. Wray sold the station to Robert A. Naismith in February 1992.
Naismith returned the station to the air with a hot adult contemporary format as WFGE, known as "Fudgie 94" (as in Mackinac Island's famous fudge). Then in 1995, the station changed calls to WLJZ and changed its frequency to 94.5 with an increase in power, which increased its broadcast area substantially to include most of the northern tip of the lower peninsula, bringing a better signal to Petoskey, Gaylord, and Rogers City and reaching almost as far north as Sault Ste. Marie (though the station did, and still does, suffer from interference from co-channel WCEN-FM in the southern fringes of its listening area). WLJZ adopted Jones Radio Networks' satellite-fed smooth jazz format as "Coast FM," simulcasting with WAVC 93.9 FM in Mio and WJZJ 95.5.
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