| City of license | Lisman, Alabama |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Meridian, Mississippi |
| Branding | God's Country 107 |
| Frequency | 107.7 MHz |
| First air date | 1997 |
| Format | Christian Country |
| ERP | 6,000 watts |
| HAAT | 100 meters (328 feet) |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 82197 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°5′27.00″N 88°13′57.00″W / 32.09083°N 88.2325°W |
| Former callsigns | WPRN-FM (1997-2012) |
| Affiliations | ABC Radio God's Country Radio Network |
| Owner | Butler Broadcasting Corporation |
WHSL (107.7 FM, "God's Country 107") is a radio station licensed to serve Lisman, Alabama, USA. The station is owned by Butler Broadcasting Corporation.
WHSL broadcasts a Christian-oriented country music format to the greater Meridian, Mississippi, area and features select programming from ABC Radio.[1]
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History [link]
K. Darryl Jackson received the original construction permit for a new FM station from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 5, 1997.[2] The new station was assigned the call letters WPRN-FM by the FCC on June 9, 1997.[3] WPRN-FM received its license to cover from the FCC on January 9, 2003.[4]
In August 1999, K. Darryl Jackson applied to the FCC to transfer the broadcast license for WPRN-FM to Butler Broadcasting Corporation. The deal was approved by the FCC on November 5, 1999, and the transaction was consummated on November 30, 1999.[5] Butler Broadcasting Corporation is 100%-owned by Darryl Jackson. On February 27, 2012, the station changed its call sign to WHSL
Former on-air staff [link]
Myrtle Todd, grandmother of country music recording artist Ty Herndon, hosted a radio show on WPRN-FM and the now-defunct AM sister station WPRN (1330 AM, Butler, Alabama) for more than 40 years.[6] She played mostly Gospel music and discussed community events.[7] Herndon's mother, Peggy, also once hosted a show along with his aunts Lilly and Benny as "The Todd Sisters".[8] Herndon was born in Meridian, Mississippi, but grew just across the state line in Butler, Alabama, where the AM station was licensed.[9] The AM sister station's license was officially cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on October 6, 2003.[10] The FM station, established in 1997, carried Myrtle Todd's show through at least late-2006.[6]
References [link]
- ^ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. https://www.arbitron.com/radio_stations/station_information.htm.
- ^ "Application Search Details (BPH-19960606MD)". FCC Media Bureau. March 5, 1997. https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=227677.
- ^ "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database. https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=82197&Callsign=WHSL.
- ^ "Application Search Details (BLH-19971029KB)". FCC Media Bureau. January 9, 2003. https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=256195.
- ^ "Application Search Details (BAPH-19990830GU)". FCC Media Bureau. November 30, 1999. https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=316056.
- ^ a b "When Worst Is Best". Lancaster Sunday News. April 7, 2006. https://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LC&p_theme=lc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EEE7932674B5589&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. "Nashville recording artist Ty Herndon learned about addictions the hard way. [...] His grandmother Myrtle Todd is 82 and still going strong with her own radio program on WPRN in Butler, Ala"
- ^ "Country singer on comeback from personal problems". Augusta Chronicle. October 5, 2006. https://moreresults.factiva.com/results/index/index.aspx?ref=AGCR000020061018e2a50002h. "She had a radio show for 40-something years on WPRN in Butler. It was gospel music, and she talked about what was going on in the community."
- ^ Tarradell, Mario (April 19, 1995). "That Texas Touch: Country singer Ty Herndon has what it takes to make it, but he had to come to Dallas to do it". Dallas Morning News. https://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_theme=dm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED3D5BCE6EB1D50&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. "I remember my aunts Benny and Lilly and mother Peggy, who used to do their own radio show as the Todd Sisters."
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Ty Herndon biography". Allmusic. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p142392. Retrieved March 7, 2009.
- ^ "Station Search Details". FCC Media Bureau. October 6, 2003. https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_det.pl?Facility_id=7901.
External links [link]
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WHSL
- Radio-Locator information on WHSL
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WHSL
