WNUZ
Encyclopedia
WNUZ is a radio station
licensed
to serve Talladega, Alabama
, USA. The station, established in 1945, is owned by Birmingham Christian Radio, Inc. Due to transmitter damage caused by a lightning strike, WNUZ has been temporarily off the air since August 2008.
WNUZ normally broadcasts a Gospel music
format to the Anniston, Alabama
, area. The station airs a mix of local and syndicated programming.
s of power at 1230 kHz under the ownership of Voice of Talladega, Inc. That company, 80% owned by the Talladega Publishing Company which published the Talladega Daily Home and the weekly Talladega News, signed on WHTB-FM as a sister station in 1953.
WHTB was sold to Radio Alabama, Inc., on June 1, 1959. The new owners had the call letters changed to the current WNUZ shortly after they acquired the station. In 1968, the station upgraded its daytime signal to 1,000 watts.
After more than 37 years of continuous ownership, Radio Alabama, Inc., reached an agreement in March 1997 to sell this station to Birmingham Christian Radio, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on May 13, 1997, and the transaction was consummated on September 10, 1997.
On August 22, 2008, WNUZ "suffered direct lightning strikes" during Tropical Storm Fay
which resulted in "the complete destruction of the station's transmitter" and caused unspecified damage to other electrical broadcast equipment at the station. The station applied to the FCC for authority to stay silent while their engineers repaired or replaced the damaged gear and evaluated the station's other equipment. On December 24, 2008, WNUZ was granted permission to remain off the air until no later than June 22, 2009.
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
licensed
City of license
A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator....
to serve Talladega, Alabama
Talladega, Alabama
Talladega is a city in Talladega County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 15,143. The city is the county seat of Talladega County. Talladega is approximately 50 miles east of Birmingham, Alabama....
, USA. The station, established in 1945, is owned by Birmingham Christian Radio, Inc. Due to transmitter damage caused by a lightning strike, WNUZ has been temporarily off the air since August 2008.
WNUZ normally broadcasts a Gospel music
Gospel music
Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
format to the Anniston, Alabama
Anniston, Alabama
Anniston is a city in Calhoun County in the state of Alabama, United States.As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 24,276. According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 23,741...
, area. The station airs a mix of local and syndicated programming.
History
This station first signed on in 1945 as WHTB, broadcasting with 250 wattWatt
The watt is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units , named after the Scottish engineer James Watt . The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.-Definition:...
s of power at 1230 kHz under the ownership of Voice of Talladega, Inc. That company, 80% owned by the Talladega Publishing Company which published the Talladega Daily Home and the weekly Talladega News, signed on WHTB-FM as a sister station in 1953.
WHTB was sold to Radio Alabama, Inc., on June 1, 1959. The new owners had the call letters changed to the current WNUZ shortly after they acquired the station. In 1968, the station upgraded its daytime signal to 1,000 watts.
After more than 37 years of continuous ownership, Radio Alabama, Inc., reached an agreement in March 1997 to sell this station to Birmingham Christian Radio, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on May 13, 1997, and the transaction was consummated on September 10, 1997.
Silent
Beginning in October 2005, WNUZ began experiencing a series of technical issues that kept the station from broadcasting for months at a time in 2005 and 2006. The station fell silent again in July 2007 and stayed off the air for more than six months due to new technical issues with the transmitter.On August 22, 2008, WNUZ "suffered direct lightning strikes" during Tropical Storm Fay
Tropical Storm Fay (2008)
Tropical Storm Fay was a tropical storm and the sixth named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. Fay formed from a vigorous tropical wave on August 15 over the Dominican Republic...
which resulted in "the complete destruction of the station's transmitter" and caused unspecified damage to other electrical broadcast equipment at the station. The station applied to the FCC for authority to stay silent while their engineers repaired or replaced the damaged gear and evaluated the station's other equipment. On December 24, 2008, WNUZ was granted permission to remain off the air until no later than June 22, 2009.