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Encyclopedia > WBHK
WBHK
City of license Warrior/Birmingham
Broadcast area Central Alabama
Branding "98.7 Kiss FM"
Slogan Tom Joyner in the Morning and Smooth R&B and Classic Soul All Day
Frequency 98.7 (MHz)
Format Urban Adult Contemporary
ERP 39,000 watts
Callsign meaning W BirmingHam's Kiss
Owner Cox Broadcasting
Sister stations WAGG, WBHJ, WBHK, WBPT, WNCB, WPSB, WZZK
Website http://987kiss.com/

WBHK is an urban adult contemporary radio station owned by Cox Broadcasting that serves Birmingham, Alabama. It is currently ranked by the Arbitron rating system as the nation's highest rated urban adult contemporary. 98.7 Kiss FM is licensed to Warrior and broadcasts on the 98.7 megahertz (MHz) frequency at effecitve radiated power of 39 kilowatts (kW) from atop of Red Mountain. It is owned by Cox Radio Holdings along with six other stations. In the United States (and potentially elswhere), each radio station or TV station is assigned a city of license by the Federal Communications Commission that they must serve. While this has become far less meaningful over the decades, stations are still required to post their public file somewhere within the... Warrior is a city located in Jefferson County, Alabama. ... Nickname: Location in Jefferson County in the state of Alabama Coordinates: , Country State County Jefferson, Shelby Government  - Mayor Bernard Kincaid (D) Area  - City  151. ... Central Alabama is the region in the state of Alabama that stretches approximately 170 miles from the western border with Mississippi to eastern border with Georgia and 136 miles from the northern border of Cullman County to the Alabama River in southern Autauga County. ... Look up slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... FreQuency is a music video game developed by Harmonix and published by SCEI. It was released in November 2001. ... MegaHertz (MHz) is the name given to one million (106) Hertz, a measure of frequency. ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ... Urban Adult Contemporary is the name for a format of radio music, similar to an urban contemporary format. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Watt (disambiguation). ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded at Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. ... In broadcasting, sister stations are broadcast stations owned by the same company. ... WAGG is a radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, broadcasting at 610 AM. Its daytime power is 5,000 watts, and at nighttime, it broadcasts at 1,000 watts. ... WBHJ, known locally over the air as 95. ... WBPT is a classic hits FM radio station licensed to Homewood, Alabama that serves Birmingham and central Alabama. ... WNCB is an FM radio station licensed to Gardendale, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. ... WPSB is a radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, broadcasting at 1320 AM. Its daytime power is 5,000 watts, and at nighttime, it broadcasts at 111 watts. ... WZZK is a country music FM radio station licensed to Birmingham that serves northern and central Alabama. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded at Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. ... Nickname: Location in Jefferson County in the state of Alabama Coordinates: , Country State County Jefferson, Shelby Government  - Mayor Bernard Kincaid (D) Area  - City  151. ... Arbitron is a radio audience research company in the United States. ... Urban Adult Contemporary is the name for a format of radio music, similar to an urban contemporary format. ... In the United States (and potentially elswhere), each radio station or TV station is assigned a city of license by the Federal Communications Commission that they must serve. While this has become far less meaningful over the decades, stations are still required to post their public file somewhere within the... Warrior is a city located in Jefferson County, Alabama. ... MegaHertz (MHz) is the name given to one million (106) Hertz, a measure of frequency. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The kilowatt (symbol: kW) is a unit for measuring power, equal to one thousand watts. ... Red Mountain is a long ridge running southwest-northeast and dividing Jones Valley from Shades Valley south of Birmingham, Alabama,United States. ...


The station has a unusually strong signal that broadcasts on a class C1 that can be heard across the majority of North and Central Alabama and even in parts of eastern Mississippi and western Georgia. WBHK is sometimes mistaken for or confused with the New York urban AC with the same moniker, WRKS-FM, 98.7 Kiss FM. The similar musical format and dial position of both stations have allowed them to share on-air liners and even TV commercials--but neither station shares the same corporate ownership. In 2005, WBHK began broadcasting in IBOC digital radio, using the HD Radio system from iBiquity. This is the list of broadcast station classes. ... North Alabama is a region of the U.S. state of Alabama, generally thought to include these 11 counties: Cherokee, Colbert, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan, and Winston. ... Central Alabama is the region in the state of Alabama that stretches approximately 170 miles from the western border with Mississippi to eastern border with Georgia and 136 miles from the northern border of Cullman County to the Alabama River in southern Autauga County. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... WRKS-FM (98. ... In-band on-channel (IBOC) is a method of transmitting digital and analog radio broadcast signals simultaneously on the same frequency. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... HD Radio is an in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio system created by iBiquity for broadcasting via existing FM and AM radio stations. ... iBiquity is a company formed by the merger of USA Digital Radio and Lucent Digital Radio, with the goal of creating an in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio system for the United States. ...

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History

98.7 began as WLBI, "Great 98", a 6 kW rimshot hot adult contemporary station. It later changed to "Lite 98", with a playlist that consisted of a mix of soft AC, jazz, and Christian contemporary music. Its tower was on a hill off Arkadelphia Road west of Warrior, and they broadcasted from a small trailer also located in Warrior. In 1996, after many years as a low-rated AC, they became an urban AC with the moniker and slogan, "98.7 Kiss FM, Smooth R&B and Classic Soul". With the format change the ratings for the frequency increased. In 2002, the transmitter was upgraded and moved to Red Mountain after many years of broadcasting from a choppy signal.


Current Schedule

Weekdays

  • Tom Joyner Morning Show 5-9AM
  • Daryl Johnson 9AM-12PM
  • Isis Jones 12PM-3PM
  • Chris Coleman 3-7PM
  • The NightKiss with Kim "The Nightbird" Moore 7PM-Midnight
  • Roe Bonner Midnight-5AM

Saturdays Tom Joyner (born November 23, 1949) is an African American radio host. ...

  • Najee Owens Midnight-6AM
  • Walt "Baby" Love's Countdown 6-8AM
  • Tom Joyner's Right Back at Ya 8-10AM
  • Chris Coleman 10AM-3PM
  • Roe Bonner 3-8PM
  • Willis Prides Saturday Night 70's and 80's Grown & Sexy Houseparty with Willis Pride 8PM-Midnight

Sundays

  • Ron Marshall's Gospel Sounds 6-11AM
  • The Myriad Gospel Countdown 11AM-Noon
  • Roe Bonner 12-5PM
  • Isaiah Pettway 5-10PM
  • "Talkback Live"with Hollis Wormsby and James Williams 10PM-Midnight
  • Roe Bonner Midnight-5AM

Station Management

  • General Manager David Dubose
  • Operations Manager Jay Dixon
  • Program Director Daryl Johnson
  • Music Director Chris Coleman
  • News Director Reginald Greene
  • Public Affairs Director Hollis Wormsby

See also

A complete list of radio stations licensed to places in Alabama. ...

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