Technical Profile: WEUZ

FM Technical Profile: WEUZ

Station Name:: 103-EUP
Frequency:: 92.1
Format:: Hip-Hop
Transmitter Location:: [map] Roughly halfway between Pulaski and Minor Hill in Tennessee, west of Minor Hill Road, near the intersection of Turkey Branch Road and Charlie Howell Road.
Power (ERP):: 2.6 kW
Antenna:: Omnidirectional
Antenna HAAT:: 479 feet
Other Information:: 60 dBu protected contour map, from the FCC.
More Information:: [FCC]; [FCCdata]; [Radio-Locator]; [Wikipedia]

[Studio] Google Photos images of the station's studio and signage.
[Studio] Street View imagery of the station's studios on Highway 53 in Huntsville.
Owner:: Broadcast One (Hundley Batts Sr. and Virginia Caples)
History:: This station dates back to an original construction permit issued to Roger Wright (d/b/a Prospect Communications) in August of 1983, for a class A station licensed to Minor Hill, Tennessee. The station began broadcasting as WLLX in late 1983 with a Diversified format, including Middle-of-the-Road (MOR) and Oldies music. The station started off at 1.2 kW from an antenna height of 460 feet above average terrain (HAAT) from a site northwest of Minor Hill along Charlie Howell Road near Turkey Branch Road. The studios were in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, at 1208 North Locust Street (US-43). By 1989 the station was listed in the Broadcasting Yearbook as having a Country music format.

In May 1991 the station was sold to Bill Moore for $199,584. Under his ownership the call letters changed to WYBM but the format remained Country. Of note is that the WLLX call letters would not stay gone from the south-central Tennessee region for long, as Radio 7 Media would later have them on a set of stations in the area, which operate from the North Locust Street studios to this day.

The station was sold again in September 1993, this time to Hometown Broadcasting, for $211,027.80. However this was not a true ownership change as the president of the company is the previous owner, Bill Moore. Around this time it appears the format flipped to Oldies.

Hundley Batts Sr. and Virginia Caples (as Broadcast One) acquired this station in December of 1993 for $310,000. The format flipped to Hip-Hop along with the WEUP-FM call sign in February 1992. This duo started off owning Huntsville's first black-owned station, WEUP 1600, and later acquired other AM and FM properties (along with some translators) all over the Tennessee Valley, with stations airing either Rhythm and Blues on AM or Hip-Hop on FM, creating a regional network of stations. In 1996, they were granted a boost in power to 2.6 kW at 479 feet HAAT. The permit initially expired unbuilt but they reapplied and were granted it again in February 1999. A license to cover for this facility was filed in April 1999.

In April 2000 the call sign changed to WEUZ, with the WEUP-FM call sign moving to another station of theirs in Moulton.

Caples passed away in 2019.

With Caples passed and Batts in hospice, their network of stations has struggled to remain on air and reports are that this station has been off the air regularly since at least 2021, despite never filing any silent STA (Special Temporary Authorizations) with the FCC.