WPMH

WPMH (1270 AM) is a Christian talk radio station licensed to Newport News, Virginia, serving Hampton Roads.

The Eastern Broadcasting Corporation, owners of WCNS in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, received in April 1947 a construction permit for a new daytime-only radio station on 1270 kHz in Newport News, with call sign WHYU.

[7] Out of bankruptcy, WACH and its accompanying TV permit (despite remaining dark) were sold to the United Broadcasting Company of Eastern Virginia, owned by Richard Eaton, for $54,500 in 1956.

Under the name "Daddy Jules", a young Wolfman Jack became the station's star personality; he invited local teens to dance and make requests, which drew lines of 100 or more youth outside the studios and sent the ratings soaring.

[12] In 1960, Eaton sold WYOU, now under the new WTID call sign adopted on September 15, 1960,[10] to Twelve Seventy, Inc., headed by Max Reznick, for $130,000.

[10] During this time, Bay Cities had pending an application to relocate the station's transmitter and add nighttime service with 1,000 watts, which was granted in 1980.

In addition to gospel music, the station carried National Black Network newscasts[25] and sponsored an NAACP membership drive in 1988.

[28] That date came and went without a change; in May, the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Temple stepped in to lease the station, retaining the gospel format—as well as the broadcasts of its church services, which had aired on 1270 AM since 1987.

[32] Responsibility for program origination of "The Lighthouse" religious format was assumed by WPMH after WHKT (1010 AM) went silent on December 15, 2021, "due to the loss of its transmitter site".

Former WTJZ logo, 2014