WYDE-FM (92.5

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) is a

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, and serving Greater Birmingham. To compensate for its weak signal over the eastern and southern parts of the Birmingham metropolitan area, WYDE-FM

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s with

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WYDE

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(which is all-digital). The station is owned by

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with the licensed held by Kimtron, Inc. WYDE-AM-FM air a

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and

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.WYDEradio.com/program-guide
/REF> The offices and studios are on Summit Parkway at West Valley Avenue in Homewood. WYDE-FM is a Class A FM station with an

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(ERP) of 2,200

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s. The

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is along Alabama State Route 269, in southeastern Walker County near the border with Jefferson County, about northwest of downtown Birmingham.Radio-Locator.com/WYDE-FM
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History

Top 40 and Active Rock

The station

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the air in . It was a

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station with the call letters WZJT, calling itself ''“Party Radio Z-92.5.”'' It was put on the air by the owner and operator of a nightclub in Birmingham. At the time, there were no another Top 40 music stations on the Birmingham dial. But the location of the station’s transmitter and its weak signal proved to be a hindrance to successful

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. Within a few months of its debut, WZJT changed formats and became an

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station with the new on-air name of ''“Planet Rock 92-5”.'' The new format was no more successful in attracting listeners than its previous incarnation.

Catholic Radio and Country

In 2000, the station was sold and became an

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’s Catholic radio network. The station’s call letters were changed to WQOP-FM (''Q''ueen ''o''f ''P''eace, referring to the

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). EWTN is based in

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, outside Birmingham. In 2004, Crawford Broadcasting Company bought the station in order to establish an FM simulcast partner of what was then WDJC 850 AM. After the acquisition, the call letters of the AM and FM stations were changed to WXJC and WXJC-FM. The stations offered a combination of Southern gospel music and

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programs. In May 2006, WXJC-FM changed its call letters to WPHC. It flipped to a

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format. With other country stations such as

WDXB WDXB (102.5 FM broadcasting, FM) is a country music formatted radio station city of license, licensed to Pelham, Alabama, and serving the Birmingham metropolitan area, Alabama, Birmingham metropolitan area and north-central Alabama. The radi ...

and

WZZK-FM WZZK-FM (104.7 FM) is a commercial radio station in Birmingham that serves Northern and Central Alabama. It is the flagship station of the '' Rick and Bubba Morning Show''. The station is owned by SummitMedia alongside six other stations ...

already established in Birmingham and

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’s WTXT and

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serving its primary broadcast area, WPHC failed to attract significant listenership. The country sounds only lasted five months.

Christian talk

In October of the same year, WPHC returned to a format of Christian talk and teaching. WPHC changed its call letters back to WXJC-FM on July 9, 2007. On November 5, 2018, 92.5 FM switched its call sign to WYDE-FM. The previous WXJC-FM call letters were assigned to co-owned 101.1 FM in Cullman.Alabama Broadcast Media Page
/ref> That station, along with WXJC 850 AM, simulcast all Christian talk and teaching programs, while WYDE-FM 92.5 and WYDE 1260 AM simulcast a different format of

and Christian talk.

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