WYPZ (AM)

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WYPZ

City	Macon, Georgia
Broadcast area	Macon area
Frequency	900 kHz
Branding	Praise 99.5
Programming
Format	Urban gospel
Ownership
Owner	Christopher Murray (Georgia Radio Alliance, LLC.)
Sister stations	WRWR (FM)
History
First air date	1957
Former call signs	WBML (1957-2015)
Technical information
Facility ID	71216
Class	D
Power	2,000 watts day 145 watts night
Transmitter coordinates	32°50′58″N 83°36′6″W / 32.84944°N 83.60167°W / 32.84944; -83.60167Coordinates: 32°50′58″N 83°36′6″W / 32.84944°N 83.60167°W / 32.84944; -83.60167
Translator(s)	99.5 W258AP (Macon) 105.1 W286CE (Fort Valley)
Links
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	www.praise995.com

WYPZ (900 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an urban gospel format. Licensed to Macon, Georgia, US, the station serves the Macon area. Originally licensed to 1240 kc. on the AM dial, WYPZ signed on the mid-1940s as WBML. During the 1950s and 1960s, WBML established itself as the station to turn to for breaking news. Station management placed mobile units on the streets of Macon throughout most of the day and night. The air staff included Bob Saggese, a Connecticut native who was also Macon's first television producer and announcer, Gordon Price, Don King, Ken Wickham, Lee Mathis, Oscar Leverette, Sid Ingraham and later Bill Elder in the 1970s. In 1976, Prairieland Broadcasters of Decatur, Illinois sold the station to Jack Tyken, who changed the format from pop to country. That format change lasted only a few months before the station was sold again and moved from its signature "Peek-A-Blue" building on Macon's Riverside Drive to a location in east Macon. Jim Lee, a Macon city police officer and later a member of the City Council, was the station's News Director throughout much of the 1960s. The air staff included two of the city's most popular announcers, Bob Saggese and Don King. After years as a Christian station, WBML was sold to Sun Broadcasting in June 2011 and began programming a Classic/Mainstream Country Format in July 2011.

For a short period of time in 2015, WBML simulcasted WRWR/W286CE's R&B format before moving WYPZ 1350's callsign and Urban Gospel format to 900 AM later that year to make way for Classic Hits formatted "Fox FM" on 1350 AM. With this change, the now historic WBML callsign was moved to 1350 AM, where it resides to this day.

External links[]

• FCC History Cards for WYPZ
• WYPZ in the FCC AM station database
• WYPZ on Radio-Locator
• WYPZ in Nielsen Audio's AM station database

• W258AP in the FCC FM station database
• W286CE in the FCC FM station database

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