WWPC (91.7 FM) is a

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radio station

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to serve

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, United States. The station is owned by Word Radio Educational Foundation. WWPC broadcasts a

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format as a simulcast of WRKJ (88.5 FM) in

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History

This station received its original

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from the

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on August 9,

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

. The new station was assigned the WWPC

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by the FCC on August 23, 1991. WWPC filed an application for its license to cover from the FCC on January 5, 1993. The FCC accepted the application for filing, but did not issue the station its broadcast license until February 12, 2016.

References

External links

WWPC official website
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