It was then purchased by Full Armor Ministries, who programmed a religious radio format on the renamed WEEP until a transmitter fire took the station silent in 2002.
[6] The station would join the NBC Radio Network,[3] along with WMFG, on January 1, 1942;[7] advertising could be purchased in a package with WEBC.
[3] The sale gained Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval on February 13, 2001;[13] on March 7, the station was assigned the WEEP call letters.
[14] The tower, lacking basic maintenance, was described as "rusting away" during an August 2005 visit by radio journalist Scott Fybush.
[16] Efforts to sell the station to the city of Virginia were complicated and ultimately thwarted by licensee Full Armor Ministries' failure to file a timely license renewal.