 WRTG hit the local airwaves in 1969 as country station WKBQ.In 1987, the station became classic country WHEV under the ownership of Henry E. Veil.After going dark in the early 1990s, Veil gave the license to Durham-based Carolina Christian Communications, which signed 1000 AM back on the air in 1994 with a simulcast of contemporary Christian station WRTP, 1530 AM.