{{infobox radio station | name | WGPR
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| city Detroit, Michigan
| area
| branding The New 107-5 WGPR
| slogan All Your Favorites From The 80's, 90's & Beyond
| airdate December 6, 1961
| frequency 107.5 MHz
| repeater 94.3 W232CA (Detroit, relays WGPR-HD3)104.7 W284BQ (Detroit, relays WGPR-HD2)
| format Urban Adult ContemporaryHD2: Smooth JazzHD3: Modern Rock
| power 50,000 watts
| haat 123.5 meters
| class B
| facility_id 70512
| coordinates
| callsign_meaning Grosse Pointe Radio Where God's Presence Radiates | former_callsigns | affiliations | owner International Free and Accepted Modern Masons | licensee WGPR, Inc. | webcast Listen Live | website wgprdetroit.com1047theoasis.com (HD2)943thebone.com (HD3) }} |
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WGPR has a broadcasting range from the north to Flint and Lapeer, and as far west as Fowlerville (60 miles).
It is reported that the station's callsign meant, Where God's Presence Radiates, but the original meaning was Grosse Pointe Radio, as the station was originally based out of a studio on Mack Avenue in Grosse Pointe Woods when it went on the air in 1961 (the original building still stands and houses a real estate agent). The current studios are located on East Jefferson in Detroit.
The Electrifyin' Mojo was heard on WGPR-FM during the early 1980s.
Once a top-10-rated station in the Detroit market, WGPR is now the lowest-rated of Detroit's three urban AC stations, trailing WMXD and WDMK. Nevertheless, the station has a devoted audience, and its ratings were not largely adversely affected by Detroit's switching from Arbitron's diary system to the Portable People Meter PPM.
The station was co-owned with WGPR-TV channel 62, which the Freemason group established in 1975. On September 29, 1975, Amyre Porter, Doug Morrison and Sharon Crews became the nation's first African-American primetime news team. This station, which would adopt the CBS affiliation in 1994 following WJBK's switch from CBS to Fox, was sold to CBS in 1995 and re-called WWJ-TV.
Saturdays are "Old School" Saturdays, featuring a wide variety of R&B;, soul and dance-oriented oldies. Saturdays are called Old School Saturdays which is more ambiguous than the typical schedule. Genres played on OSS include disco, funk, 1980s electronic music, dance music, Motown Sound, urban oldies, and 1970s R&B;. This program has been prone to technical errors. These errors include skipping CDs, varying volume levels between tracks, a song ending midway through and sometimes accidental but simultaneous mix-in of multiple song tracks. Sundays are devoted mostly to gospel programming.
The New 107.5 WGPR currently ranks at #16 (3.2) in the Detroit market according to the November 2010 PPM Ratings release. The station has, uncharacteristically for urban-formatted stations, achieved higher ratings in the PPM system than under the old diary method, though part of that may be due to the popularity of John Mason's morning show.
The Oasis vs. WIOT
In March 2011, Martz filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to relocate the frequency of W284BQ, from 104.7 MHz to 93.9 MHz—if approved, the repeater will interfere with Windsor, Ontario station CIDR-FM in much of the Greater Detroit area, though the licensee contends that the transmitter will be directional, as to not interfere with CIDR-FM on the Canadian side of the border. While the repeater is currently rebroadcasting The Oasis, FCC documents show that Martz had intended to use W284BQ as a "fill-in" for WRCJ-FM; the translator did in fact rebroadcast WRCJ when it first went on the air.
In May 2011, Toledo station WIOT, which also broadcasts on 104.7 MHz, filed a complaint with the FCC, saying that W284BQ interferes with WIOT in the Michigan portion of their broadcast area. WIOT had also solicited comments and reception reports from listeners in the affected area.
Martz would soon after establish a website, http://www.savetheoasis.com/ , which explains the station's position on the issue, stating that WIOT should not get special treatment on the grounds that it is an Ohio radio station that serves no part of Detroit (though the statement is not exactly true as the station is interfering with listeners inside WIOT's protected signal contour) and that Clear Channel's motive was to try to remove competition, as Clear Channel owns two of the heritage adult-oriented radio stations in Detroit, WMXD and WNIC.
The Oasis' web site mentioned that they and Clear Channel planned to undergo mutual testing in order to alleviate the interference problems, but as of June 2011, The Oasis is now claiming that Clear Channel had broken the commitment to work together for a resolution. With the dispute still unresolved as of July 2011, the future of 104.7 The Oasis remains dubious.
Weekends/Fill-ins include DJ Base, Karen Dumas, Rene Hurts and Jeff Lowe.
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