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WCPR-FM
WCPR-FM (97.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Wiggins, Mississippi. Its transmitter is located in Saucier, Mississippi, on a 466-foot tower at 50,000 watts of power. WCPR plays primarily rock and alternative music. The station's signal reaches far west to Covington, Louisiana, far east to Mobile, Alabama, and far north as Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
History.
History US98/97-9 CPR.
The station started out with a country music format as US98 from 1994-1995
, the SS Stevens, as a floating dormitory. The ship was removed in the 1970s due to the rising heating cost and student initiated prank that put the ship in motion up the Hudson River from which the Institute's radio station, WCPR: Castle Point Radio, was broadcast as far as the Florida Keys. The school lost its license to broadcast with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and has not regained it to date; WCPR may only broadcast internally and via the internet.
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