WRTP-FM signed on back in the 1970s as Christian station WPGT based at a local Christian school in Roanoke Rapids. The station was on 90.1 FM at 760 watts without a stereo signal. In 1984, the station became WHGG and continued its traditional Christian format. Appalachian Educational Communications Corporation was the owner when, in 2000, WHGG was sold to Radio Training Network, which had just purchased contemporary Christian WRTP 1530 AM (now Spanish WLLQ) in Durham from Carolina Christian Communications, along with simulcast partners WRTG, 1000 AM in Garner and WGSB, 1060 AM in Mebane. Unlike commercial FM stations, non-commercial FMs are allowed by law to rebroadcast their programming on translators outside of their coverage areas (AM stations aren't allowed to rebroadcast on FM translator stations at all except under certain circumstances). Radio Training Network expanded the reach of WRTP by signing on translator stations across central and eastern North Carolina, with the first of these, Raleigh's W216BN, 91.1 FM, signing on in 1999. On April 27^th, 2000, WHGG officially became WRTP-FM. In 2004, Radio Training Network swapped frequencies with NPR station WZRU, at 88.5 FM. This took effect on the evening of May 1^st, 2005. That same day, one of the WRTP-FM translators, W257BH, 99.3 in Lizard Lick, NC, shifted frequencies to 98.9 FM as W255BR to clear the way for WZAX, Nashville, to move from 99.7 to 99.3. This was a part of Chase City, VA-licensed WFXQ's reallocation to Creedmoor, NC, where it would become country-formatted WCMC-FM that October. The WRTP radio network sold its three AM frequencies in 2004 and ceased broacasting on them in February of 2005. In the spring of 2006, WRTP completed an upgrade of their 88.5 facility, offering better coverage in areas north and east of the Triangle. Henderson translator W299AO, 107.7 FM, was rendered obsolete by the signal upgrade and was silenced. W255AL, 98.9 in Goldsboro was sold to Christian Listening Network, owners of WCLN, 107.3 FM in Clinton, NC. In the spring of 2007, WRTP relocated its studios from their longtime home at 3013 Guess Road in Durham to Falls of Neuse Road in northern Raleigh. In July of that year, Radio Training Network bought Campbell University's WCCE, 90.1 FM, in Buies Creek and began simulcating their signal there. In June of 2009, WRTP-FM moved its city of license to Franklinton, North Carolina, though with no facility change.

WRTP-FM Translators