WHIY

Infobox Radio station
name = WHIY


city = Huntsville, Alabama
area = Tennessee Valley
branding =
slogan = "Party Blues and Oldies"
airdate =
frequency = 1600 kHz
format = Urban oldies and Blues
power = 5000 watts (day) 500 watts (night)
class = B
facility_id = 28118
coordinates = coord|34|45|32|N|86|38|35|W
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns = WEUP
owner = Broadcast One
licensee = Hundley Batts, Sr. & Virginia Caples
sister_stations = WEUP (AM), WEUP-FM, WEUV, WEUZ
webcast =
website = http://www.weupam.com/
affiliations =

WHIY (1600 AM) is an Urban oldies and Blues music formatted radio station that serves Huntsville, Alabama, and the majority of the Tennessee Valley in north Alabama, United States.cite web |title=Station Information Profile |work=Arbitron |url=http://www.arbitron.com/]

The WHIY call letters were on the co-owned 1190 AM signal until a 2006 re-alignmentcite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=43896&Callsign=WEUV |title=1190 AM Call Sign History |work=FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database] with co-owned WEUV (originally 1700 AM)cite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=87141&Callsign=WEUP |title=1700 AM Call Sign History |work=FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database] and WEUP (originally 1600 AM)cite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=28118&Callsign=WHIY |title=1600 AM Call Sign History |work=FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database] .

In the 1980s, the station aired a country music format. For most of the 2000s, this station's programming had been a simulcast of sister station WEUP. WHIY returned to independent programming in December 2007.

Ownership

In 1987, the married couple of Hundley Batts, Sr. and Dr. Virginia Caples assumed the ownership and operation of WEUP. They also acquired another station, WEUZ-FM (92.1 FM), licensed to Minor Hill, Tennessee, and brought WEUP onto the FM broadcast airwaves. They operated WEUP & WEUZ-FM under the parent company name of Broadcast One. They continued to expand the station's audience by acquiring WHIY (1190 AM) and WEUP-FM (103.1), both licensed to Moulton, Alabama, in 1989. WEUV (1700 AM) was later added to the group of stations that are part of the WEUP broadcast family.

References

External links

* [http://www.weupam.com WEUP/WHIY official website]
* [http://www.partybluesandoldies.com/ Party Blues & Oldies]
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