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Wwpw hd-2

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RoddyFreeman

Does anyone know anything about WWPW HD-2?

The format is Christian Contemporary with more serious Christmas songs mixed in. It sounds kind of strange. Before each song, the station voice says a number, and then the song starts. He'll say "5" and the song starts or "17" and the song starts. And that's all he ever says.

I don't think the number refers to a ranking on a chart or request line.

I'm wondering if this is an iHeart product or someone is leasing it for a translator somewhere. Probably the former.
 
Monitoring it now onlnie …

The iHeart page of TuneIn.com identifies the station as "96.1 Christian Hits."

The contemporary playlist sounds a lot like FISH.

A little harder rock sounding.

Have heardthe voice identify "7" "19" "1" "14" "20"

The majority of it souinds very contempotary Christian rock. Only have heard one Christmas "standard since I've ben listening.
 
Mike_Rafone said:
The iHeart page of TuneIn.com identifies the station as "96.1 Christian Hits."

The contemporary playlist sounds a lot like FISH.

A little harder rock sounding.

Have heardthe voice identify "7" "19" "1" "14" "20"

The majority of it souinds very contempotary Christian rock. Only have heard one Christmas "standard since I've ben listening.
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Thanks, Mike. Yes, that's how the RDS identifies the station, also. And you are correct that it is a little harder rocking than The Fish.

I don't know what to make of the numbers. Maybe it's a secret code to bookies. (Just kidding!)
 
RoddyFreeman said:
I don't know what to make of the numbers.
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Maybe its the number of soul won during the last music track?

The number of times the phone rang and no one answered it?

No, wait, I've got it! The number of listeners!!!!
 
I think it is an Emmanuel feed for a translator. I think it was originally for 92.3.(92.3 played CC for a while if I'm not mistaken.)
The first thing that I thought of was stations running the "bug" or numbers disguised as random numbers. There was a station in Atlanta that got busted for running numbers on air...I think it was the old WIGO on 1340 AM.
 
Numbers Stations Are Nothing New

They're all over on SW. They transmit coded messages to their operatives (spies) in the field.
 
wavo said:
I think it is an Emmanuel feed for a translator. I think it was originally for 92.3.(92.3 played CC for a while if I'm not mistaken.)
The first thing that I thought of was stations running the "bug" or numbers disguised as random numbers. There was a station in Atlanta that got busted for running numbers on air...I think it was the old WIGO on 1340 AM.
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WOOK-AM/1340 in Washington, DC lost their license for selling time to a preacher who quoted "verse numbers and pages" from the "Bible" that were really lottery numbers.
 
The iHeart WWPW-FM-HD2 station is indeed called 96.1 Christian Hits. However, the station is not affiliated with IBN (Immanuel Broadcasting Network) based out of Cartersville. The reason why you hear a number between each song is because the Christian songs you hear on 96.1 Christian Hits are on a top 20 chart. There are other iHeart stations that play the top 20 songs of a format. Here are those other stations:

All My Jams Top 20
The Alt Nation Top 20
The Beat Top 20
Hit Nation Top 20
iHeartCountry Radio Top 20
Mia Top 20 Radio (Spanish)
Rock Nation Top 20

They mention the number a song is currently at on each chart on each station. Anyway, that is all.
 
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