WWBC

WWBC (1510 AM), is a radio station licensed to Cocoa, Florida, United States. The station is currently owned by Astro Enterprises, Inc. and is leased out to John Harper, branded as "WMEL" and the "Talk To Me" Radio Network.
For most of its history, WWBC was a Christian radio station; it has been leased out since 2016.
History.
The Blue Crystal Broadcasting Corporation, owned by William Earman, received a construction permit on January 27, 1964, to build a new daytime-only radio station on 1510 kHz in Cocoa. The station signed on July 11, with the transmitter mounted in the water in the Indian River at the Island Point Marina, and studios on Forrest Avenue. The station broadcast a pop music format.
Two years after building the station, Earman sold WWBC in order to become general manager of the Cocoa chamber of commerce. The new owners, Astro Enterprises, mostly consisted of employees of another station in town. Under Astro, WWBC began broadcasting a modern country music format. Ownership in Astro Enterprises completely turned over in 1975, when the company was sold to a group headed by Raymond A. Kassis of Baltimore. The station had already carried some religious programs, but under Kassis, a born-again Christian, WWBC shifted to a primarily religious format, airing local and national fare, along with some country music.
Kassis announced in 1977 his intention to apply for television channel 52 for a station focused on family programming. His bid opened the door for other applicants to file; one, Good Life Broadcasting, proposing a similar service, prompted Kassis to claim that the competitor had "blundered" by "taking a brother to court". The two parties would settle in late 1980, with The Good Life winning a construction permit for WTGL. Kassis would later start the National Christian Network from facilities shared with WWBC in Cocoa, which were also rented for use as an uplink facility by Sheridan Broadcasting Networks.
Four years after the Kassis purchase, the station was approved to increase daytime power to 1,000 watts. On December 2, 1984, Kassis started WMIE-FM 91.5, a noncommercial station oriented to the Black community.
WWBC was required to relocate its transmitter from the Island Point site when it was sold to condominium developers in the early 2000s. The new transmitter location was the former location of defunct WKKO radio.
Kassis died in 2016. The intellectual unit of WMEL, which had moved among several stations in the Melbourne–Cocoa area, began broadcasting on WWBC and its translators on November 1, 2016, as John Harper leased out the station.