WQRP

Infobox Radio station
name = WQRP


city = Dayton, Ohio
area = Dayton
slogan =
branding = "Praise 89.5 FM"
frequency = 89.5 MHz
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format = Contemporary Christian
power =
erp = 6,000 watts
haat = 64.0 meters
class = B1
facility_id = 15884
coordinates = coord|39|45|28.00|N| 84|11|36.00|W|region:US_type:city
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns = WDPR (1985-1998)
WQRP-FM (1998-present)
owner = Educational Media Foundation
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webcast = [http://www.praise895.com listen live]
website = [http://www.praise895.com praise895.com]
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WQRP is a radio station owned by WQRP Family Broadcasting Incorporated. It is located at 917 East Central in West Carrollton, Ohio just south of Dayton, United States. Praise 89.5 FM broadcasts Christian praise and worship music and has a 35-year history in Dayton. It shares time with Dayton Public Schools-operated WDPS during school hours within the curricular school year. Additionally, the station broadcasts a program of German and Austrian music on Saturdays from 10 AM till 1 PM (current as of 4/07).

Brief history

WQRP began in the early 1980s as a simulcast of the former WCXL (now WDPR ) when it was owned by Dayton Broadcast Workshop Inc. and operated out of a former church on West Third Street in the Drexel neighborhood of West Dayton.Originally WQRP operated at 88.1 with WCXL at 89.5. This continued before WCXL was sold and became WDPR..hence the frequencies swapped to their current FM dial positions. Once a southern gospel music format with local ministers airing preaching and teaching programs in the beginning,WQRP switched to contemporary Christian music.

WQRP is being sold to EMF Broadcasting and was believed until recently that was to be the local affilliate of Air 1. However it has been announced that it will be an affiliate if K-Love.Praise 89.5 will continue to stream from its website as a Internet-only operation.fact|date=August 2008

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*FM station data|WQRP