{"id":300001,"date":"2026-02-15T22:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300001\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T22:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:31:12","slug":"wcxl-wzpr-return-with-conservative-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300001\/","title":{"rendered":"WCXL &#038; WZPR Return With Conservative Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-od-removed-loading=\"lazy\" data-od-replaced- data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@class='jeg_viewport']\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::P]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/wcxl-200x200-jpeg.webp.jpeg\" alt=\"Beach 104 104.1 WCXL Kill Devil Hills\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-339907\"  \/>After acquiring the licenses of 92.3 WZPR Nags Head and 104.1 WCXL Kill Devil Hills NC last year, East Carolina Radio Inc. officially relaunched both stations at the start of 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm1041wcxl.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">104.1 WCXL<\/a> assumed the Conservative Talk lineup that had been heard on 1240 WCNC Elizabeth City, while <a href=\"https:\/\/fm923wzpr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">92.3 WZPR<\/a> is running a separate lineup from Salem Media Network. WCXL\u2019s lineup features programming from Bloomberg in mornings from 5-9am followed by Premiere Networks\u2019 trio of Glenn Beck from 9am-12pm, Clay Travis &amp; Buck Sexton 12-3pm, and Sean Hannity 3-6pm. Westwood One\u2019s Mark Levin follows from 6-9pm, with Alex Jones and Coast to Coast with George Noory rounding out the weekday lineup.<\/p>\n<p>1240 WCNC is now carrying iHeartMedia\u2019s \u201cBlack Information Network\u201d despite its signal completely overlapping with their own <a href=\"https:\/\/norfolk.binnews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">92.1 WHBT-FM<\/a> Moyock NC\/Norfolk VA.<\/p>\n<p>East Carolina agreed to acquire WCXL and WZPR in late 2024 along with OBXToday.com as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/288138\/station-sales-week-of-11-29-jam-media-solutions-finds-new-buyer-for-eastern-nc-duo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bankruptcy liquidation<\/a> of JAM Media Solutions after a previous deal to sell all four of JAM\u2019s FMs in northeastern North Carolina and two in Iowa to Davis Media <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/267598\/davis-media-acquires-jam-media-solutions-properties-out-of-chapter-7-bankruptcy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failed to close<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WCXL previously operated as Hot AC \u201cBeach 104\u201d until the <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/268256\/beach-104-makes-temporary-move-to-wzpr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">end of April 2024<\/a> when it lost its tower lease in the bankruptcy proceeding and moved its programming to the former Rock \u201cZ92.3\u201c WZPR. That station would then go silent at the <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/276874\/jam-media-solutions-shutters-rest-of-kill-devil-hills-signals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">end of July 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After acquiring the licenses of 92.3 WZPR Nags Head and 104.1 WCXL Kill Devil Hills NC last year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-300001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}