WHIE

Robert H. Thompson Sr., trading as Griffin Broadcasting System, obtained a construction permit for a 1,000-watt, daytime-only radio station in Griffin on August 13, 1952.[1] The station began broadcasting that December. In 1954, Thompson sold the station to Virginia Price Bowen; the transfer was part of a transaction by which Thompson became full owner of WWNS in Statesboro, which the two had jointly owned.[2] Price Bowen changed the call letters to WHIE on April 19, 1954.[1] WHIE was sold twice in the ensuing three years, to Gateway Broadcasters in 1956 and Telerad, Inc., in 1957; the Williams family acquired control of the station the next year and retained it until Fred L. Watkins became majority owner in 1975.[1]

Watkins sold the station to its last owner, Chappell Communications, in 1998 for $240,000.[3] The station ceased operations on April 1, 2020, in the wake of the death of owner Robert Chappell the year before.[4] Its license was cancelled on June 21, 2021.[5]