Radio station in Luverne, Alabama
WHLW
(104.3
FM
) is a
radio station
licensed
to serve
Luverne, Alabama
, United States. The station is owned by
iHeartMedia, Inc.
and licensed to iHM Licenses, LLC, and is one-third of the all-urban Montgomery cluster, complementing urban AC's
WWMG
and mainstream urban's
WZHT
. The studios for the three stations are located in East Montgomery near
Eastdale Mall
, and WHLW has a transmitter site in
Grady, Alabama
.
It broadcasts an
urban contemporary gospel
format to the
Montgomery, Alabama
, market.
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Notable on-air personalities currently associated with the station include Connye B, Yvette Bullard-Dillard, and Donnie McKlurkin.
History
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This station received its original
construction permit
from the
Federal Communications Commission
on December 7,
1988
, for a new station to serve
Brantley, Alabama
.
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The new station was assigned the call letters
WDHT-FM
by the FCC on May 10, 1990.
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On April 18, 1997, the station had its callsign changed to
WMHS
.
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After nearly nine years of extensions, modifications (including a change in
community of license
to
Luverne, Alabama
), and construction, WMHS received its
license to cover
from the FCC on October 29, 1997.
[4]
In November 1997, Brantley Broadcast Associates reached an agreement to sell this station to Capital Communications. The deal was approved by the FCC on January 22, 1998, and the transaction was consummated on February 20, 1998.
[5]
Concurrently, Capital Communications reached a contingent agreement to sell this station to Southern Star Communications, Inc. The deal was also approved by the FCC on January 22, 1998, and this transaction was also consummated on February 20, 1998.
[6]
On March 20, 1998, the new owners had the FCC change the station's callsign to
WQLD
.
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On August 20, 2004, the station had its callsign changed to
WNTM
.
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The station was assigned the current
WHLW
call letters by the FCC on January 14,
2005
.
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