Technical Profile: WNRP

AM Technical Profile: WNRP

Frequency:: 1620
Format:: Talk, News
Transmitter Location:: [map] [bird's eye] [street view] Near the corner of N Palafox and E Younge in Pensacola.
Power (ERP):: Day: 10 kW; Night: 1 kW
Antenna:: 1 tower
Other Information:: 0.5 mV/m Daytime Groundwave Service Contour from the FCC's Public Files

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[Studio] Street View imagery of the ADX Pensacola studios behind University Town Plaza in Pensacola.
[Image] RDS display image for translator W222BR Pensacola, from a Mazda OEM car stereo, from June 2018.
[Image] RDS display image for translator W222BR Pensacola, from a Hyundai OEM car stereo, from May 2023.
[Image] RDS display image for translator W237BE Pensacola, from a Hyundai OEM car stereo, from May 2023.

// W222BR Pensacola, FL
// W237BE Pensacola, FL (Gateswood, AL) (via WYCT-HD3)
// WYCT HD 3 Pensacola, FL

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PS-WNRP 1620 on FM 92.3
Time-[?]
Text-Call Northwest Florida's News Station - Newsradio 92.3/AM1620
PTY-News
PI-[?]; Owned by ADX Communications of Pensacola
History:: This station started off as WATM 1590 in Atmore. It was originally on 1580, then moved to 1590 to get a power increase. Sold in the 70's and became WSKR (Kicker). Then became a mere AM stepchild of it's class C FM that evolved as a major Mobile/Pensacola player, WIZD in the 80's. Then it spun off to a religious group who renamed it WGYJ (We Give You Jesus), then moved from 1590 into the expanded band (in stereo) to 1620 as WPHG (We Proclaim His Glory).; .; Around April 2002, the station went dark. While silent, it changed calls from WPHG to WPNS to WBUB.; .; The station returned to the air in the fall of 2004, simulcasting WYCT-FM (Cat Country 98.7) from Pensacola. The calls later changed to WNRP. The city of license was moved from Atmore, AL to Gulf Breeze, FL. Also, the transmitter site was moved to near the WDWR 1230 kHz site off Palafox. The station moved to a full-service local service with Country music, as well as news and traffic information. In October 2007 the station flipped to an all News/TAlk format with an emphasis on local personalities.

Translators:

In 2014 the station's owners acquired a translator, W222BR, moved in from Milton, which was heard on the air testing on 92.3 MHz in mid-July 2015, but off again after a lightning strike. It eventually returned to fulltime operation as the main FM outlet for the station in Pensacola-proper.

The station acquired a second translator in 2017 on 95.3 MHz, located north of the city near Atmore, Alabama. As of the summer of 2020, W237BE is transmitting from the WYCT tower in Baldwin County with a directional antenna aimed at the communities in Escambia County, Florida that are north of I-10. That translator was able to drop the directional antenna while raising antenna height in August of 2020. This translator's parent station is technically WYCT-HD3, which carries WNRP as a subchannel. In early July 2025 the translator was granted a permit to change antenna types to a Bext TFC2K single bay model.

In mid-August 2025, the station applied to move translator W222BR to a communications tower located at Englewood Park off West Leonard Street, about a mile northwest of the WDWR tower that it was previously on. That application was granted in early September 2025.