WHIY


WHIY is an Urban oldies and Blues music formatted radio station that serves Huntsville, Alabama, and the majority of the Tennessee Valley in north Alabama, United States. The station's studios and transmitter are both co-located along Jordan Lane in Northwest Huntsville.
The WHIY call letters were on the co-owned 1190 AM signal until a 2006 re-alignment with co-owned WEUV and WEUP.
In the 1980s, the station aired a country music format. For most of the 2000s, this station's programming had been a simulcast of sister station WEUP. WHIY returned to independent programming in December 2007.

Ownership

In August 1987, WEUP co-founder Viola Garrett's Garrett Broadcasting reached an agreement to sell WEUP to the married couple of Hundley Batts, Sr. and Dr. Virginia Caples. The deal was approved by the FCC on September 29, 1987, and the transaction was consummated on November 1, 1987. The couple also acquired another station, WEUZ-FM, licensed to Minor Hill, Tennessee, and brought WEUP onto the FM broadcast airwaves. They operated WEUP & WEUZ-FM under the parent company name of Broadcast One. They continued to expand the station's audience by acquiring WHIY and WEUP-FM, both licensed to Moulton, Alabama, in 1989. WEUV was later added to the group of stations that are part of the WEUP broadcast family.