WQRP is a radio station

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...

 owned by WQRP Family Broadcasting Incorporated. It is located at 917 East Central in West Carrollton, Ohio

West Carrollton, Ohio

West Carrollton is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. The population was 13,143 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area....

 just south of Dayton

Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...

, United States

United States

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. Praise 89.5 FM broadcasts Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 praise and worship music and has a 35-year history in Dayton. It shares time with Dayton Public Schools-operated WDPS

WDPS

WDPS is a radio station broadcasting a Jazz format. Licensed to Dayton, Ohio, USA, it serves the Dayton area. The station is currently owned by Dayton City Schools. Its programming is aired weekdays during school hours during the curricular school year...

 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

WDPR

WDPR is a radio station licensed to Dayton, Ohio, serving the greater Dayton area. The station, which plays classical music, is currently owned by Dayton Public Radio....

 ) 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

Southern Gospel

Southern Gospel music—at one time also known as "quartet music"—is music whose lyrics are written to express either personal or a communal faith regarding biblical teachings and Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music...

 music format with local ministers airing preaching and teaching programs in the beginning,WQRP switched to contemporary Christian music

Contemporary Christian music

Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith...

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WQRP is being sold to EMF Broadcasting and was believed until recently that was to be the local affiliate of Air 1

Air 1

Air1 is a Christian music radio network in the United States, operated by the non-profit organization EMF Broadcasting. Air 1 is essentially a Top-40 station with Christian Music - so many of the rules that commercial Top-40 stations use for musical rotation apply.-History:In 1986, KLRD began...

. However it has been announced that it will be an affiliate if K-Love

K-LOVE

K-LOVE is a Contemporary Christian music radio programming service in the United States operated by the Educational Media Foundation. As of January 2011, K-LOVE's programming is carried on over 440 FM stations and translators in 45 states. K-LOVE claims an audience of 250,000 people each week via...

.Praise 89.5 will continue to stream from its website as an Internet-only operation.