Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart constantly criticized the song on his television program when it was first released.
The station is owned by Mako Communications and leased to Sonlife Broadcasting Network (SBN), a Christian television network owned by Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.
Initially, it ran religious programs most of the broadcast day such as 700 Club, Richard Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart, PTL Club, and others.
Jimmy Swaggart, though his subsidiary Sonlife Radio bought the station in December 1978, and brought some of the first Contemporary Christian Music to the airwaves of Charlotte Radio.
The station was established in 1983 as "WJED", changed to "WSTN" in 1986, and since 2002 its broadcast license was held by Jimmy Swaggart's Family Worship Center Church, Inc.
WYRR is an affiliate of Jimmy Swaggart's SONLIFE Radio Network and is owned and operated by Family Worship Center Church, Inc.
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Though its population is under 4,000, Ferriday is the hometown of some half dozen well-known personalities, including the cousins Jimmy Swaggart and Jerry Lee Lewis, and the television news commentators Howard K. Smith and Campbell Brown.