WHSL (107.7 FM, "Hot 107.7") is a radio stationlicensed to Lisman, Alabama, and serving the Butler radio market. Owned by Augustus Foundation, Inc., WHSL has a transmitter at its studios on Pushmataha Road in Butler.
In August 1999, K. Darryl Jackson applied to the FCC to transfer the broadcast license for WPRN-FM to Butler Broadcasting Corporation. The deal was approved by the FCC on November 5, 1999, and the transaction was consummated on November 30, 1999.[5] Butler Broadcasting Corporation is 100%-owned by Darryl Jackson. WPRN previously broadcast the Christian-oriented God's Country Radio Network as "God's Country 107" prior to the network's closure in November 2010. On February 27, 2012, the station changed its call sign to WHSL.
The station was donated to Joshua Coyle's Leap of Faith, LLC effective August 3, 2012.
On an unknown date, the station went silent.
WHSL returned to the air as of June 3, 2014. Effective December 15, 2014, Leap of Faith sold WHSL to WHSL, LLC, at a purchase price of $10,000.
In the spring of 2017, WHSL changed their format from country to urban adult contemporary, branded as "Hot 107.7".
Effective July 2, 2019, WHSL, LLC donated the station's license to Augustus Foundation Inc. in a transaction valued at $42,000.
On February 12, 2024, WHSL went silent due to lightning damage at its transmitter tower.[6]
Former on-air staff
Myrtle Todd, grandmother of country music recording artist Ty Herndon, hosted a radio show on WPRN-FM and the now-defunct AM sister station WPRN (1330 AM, Butler, Alabama) for more than 40 years.[7] She played mostly Gospel music and discussed community events.[8] Herndon's mother, Peggy, also once hosted a show along with his aunts Lilly and Benny as "The Todd Sisters".[9] Herndon was born in Meridian, Mississippi, but grew just across the state line in Butler, Alabama, where the AM station was licensed.[10] The AM sister station's license was officially cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on October 6, 2003.[11] The FM station, established in 1997, carried Myrtle Todd's show through at least late-2006.[7]
^ ab"When Worst Is Best". Lancaster Sunday News. April 7, 2006. Nashville recording artist Ty Herndon learned about addictions the hard way. [...] His grandmother Myrtle Todd is 82 and still going strong with her own radio program on WPRN in Butler, Ala
^"Country singer on comeback from personal problems". Augusta Chronicle. October 5, 2006. She had a radio show for 40-something years on WPRN in Butler. It was gospel music, and she talked about what was going on in the community.