WHOS

Infobox Radio station
name = WHOS


city = Decatur, Alabama
area = Huntsville, Alabama
branding = "The Big Talker - 800 & 1230"
slogan = "The Valley's Big Talker"
airdate =
frequency = 800 kHz
format = News/Talk
power = 1000 watts (day)
215 watts (night)
class = D
facility_id = 44023
coordinates = coord|34|35|55|N|87|00|24|W|
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns =
owner = Clear Channel Communications
licensee = Capstar TX Limited Partnership
sister_stations = WBHP (AM)
webcast =
website = http://www.wbhpam.com/
affiliations =

WHOS (800 AM) is a news/talk-formatted radio station licensed to Decatur, Alabama, that serves northwest Alabama and south-central Tennessee.cite web |title=Station Information Profile |work=Arbitron |url=http://www.arbitron.com/] The station was assigned the WHOS call letters by the Federal Communications Commission.cite web |title=Call Sign History |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=44023&Callsign=WHOS |work=FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database]

Programming

The station's current programming is a simulcast of Huntsville, Alabama, sister station WBHP (1230 AM), "The Valley's Big Talker." The studios for both stations are located in Madison, Alabama. The station is an affiliate of the Atlanta Braves radio network. [cite web |title=Affiliate Radio Stations |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/atl/schedule/affiliates.jsp |work=The Official Site of the Atlanta Braves]

History

In October 1988 the station, which had been airing a Gospel music format, briefly featured an all-Elvis Presley format using the advertising tagline "WHOS alive?". [cite news |work=Los Angeles Times |first=John |last=Voland |title=Radio |date=1988-10-05 |quote=Straight from the gospel to the Pelvis . . . such is the overnight odyssey of radio station WHOS in Decatur, Ala., which switched formats overnight from gospel music and religious programming to an all-Elvis format Monday morning... |accessdate=2007-12-29] In the 1990s it carried a simulcast of then co-owned WDRM and its country music format.

Notable former WHOS air personalities include George Rose who, along with his alter-ego "Cousin Josh" character, hosted "The Cousin Josh Jam-O-Ree" on several North Alabama radio stations in a career than began in 1948 and ended with his death in 2006. [cite news |title=George Rose, famous as radio's 'Cousin Josh,' dies at 78; funeral today. |work=The Decatur Daily |date=2006-12-09 |last=Bishop |first=Kristen |accessdate=2007-12-29]

References

External links

* [http://www.wbhpam.com/ WHOS official website]
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