WIJD

WIJD

City	Prichard, Alabama
Broadcast area	Mobile, Alabama
Slogan	Radio That Changes The Way You Live
Frequency	1270 kHz
Translator(s)	95.7 W239AP (Mobile)
First air date	1950s (as WAIP)
Format	Christian Talk
Power	5,000 watts (day) 103 watts (night)
Class	D
Facility ID	53144
Transmitter coordinates	30°44′44″N 88°5′40″W / 30.74556°N 88.09444°W / 30.74556; -88.09444Coordinates: 30°44′44″N 88°5′40″W / 30.74556°N 88.09444°W / 30.74556; -88.09444
Former callsigns	WAIP (1950s-1960s) WSIM (1960s) WZAM (1960s-1965) ^[1] WKSJ (1965-1981) WLLF (1981)^[2]
Owner	Wilkins Communications Network, Inc. (Mobile Bay Corporation)
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	wilkinsradio.com

WIJD (1270 AM) is a radio station licensed to the community of Prichard, Alabama, USA, and serves the greater Mobile, Alabama, area. The station is owned by Wilkins Communications Network Inc. and the license is held by the Mobile Bay Corporation. It airs a Christian talk radio format.^[3]

History

This station signed on in the early 1950s as WAIP, a daytime-only station with a country music format.^[1] In the early 1960s, under the ownership of Holt Broadcasting, it flipped to an easy listening format with the call letters WSIM (for "Wonderful Sound In Mobile"). The station briefly flipped to Top 40 then changed callsigns to WZAM and resumed a country format. In 1965, Kenneth S. Johnson bought the station and changed the call letters to WKSJ as a complement to and simulcast of country formatted WKSJ-FM. In the late 1970s the station was briefly a Music of Your Life station known as WLLF before switching back to country music.^[1]

In the late 1990s, the station flipped to a syndicated talk radio format as "Impact 1270". The station changed callsigns again to WIJD on October 1, 2003.^[2] This corresponded with a brief experiment as a simulcast of the contemporary Christian music format of WGCX in Pensacola, Florida, before returning to talk.^[1] In Summer 2004, the station returned to religious broadcasting full-time.

In April 2006, Satellite Radio Network (Michael Glinter, president) reached an agreement to sell WIJD to Wilkins Communications Network Inc. (Robert Wilkins, president) for a reported sale price of $450,000.^[4] In 2012, Wilkins Radio started broadcasting on its FM translator (W239AP) at 95.7 in Mobile, Alabama. The programming on FM is a simulcast of WIJD AM 1270.

References

1 2 3 4 "AM Technical Profile: WIJD". Alabama Broadcast Media Page. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
1 2 "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Archived from the original on March 1, 2010.
↑ "Deals - 5/1/2006". Broadcasting & Cable. 2006-05-01.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WIJD

Radio-Locator Information on WIJD

Radio stations in the Mobile, Alabama area

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by FM frequency	88.5 89.5 91.3 92.1 92.9 94.1 94.9 96.1 97.5 98.3 98.7 99.9 100.7 101.5 102.1 102.7 104.1 105.5 106.5 107.3

NOAA Weather Radio	162.550

by call sign	KEC61 WABD WABF WAVH WBHY WBHY-FM WBLX-FM WDLT-FM WERM WGOK WHIL WIJD WJTQ WKSJ-FM WLPR WLVM WMEZ WMOB WMXC WNGL WNSP WNTM WPCS WQUA WRGV WRKH WTKX-FM WTOF WXBM WXQW WYCT WZEW

Alabama radio markets Birmingham Dothan Florence-Muscle Shoals Huntsville Mobile Montgomery Tuscaloosa Other Alabama radio regions Anniston Auburn Columbus, Georgia Gadsden Meridian, Mississippi See also List of radio stations in Alabama Pensacola Radio Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula Radio

Religious radio stations in the state of Alabama

Stations	WAKD – Sheffield WALN – Carrollton WAQG – Ozark WAQU – Selma WAXU – Troy WAYH – Harvest WBFR – Birmingham WBHY – Mobile WBSA – Boaz WBTG-FM – Sheffield WBXR – Hazel Green WDYF – Dothan WEBT – Langdale WELB – Elba WELL-FM – Dadeville WFBH-LP – Hamilton WGIB – Birmingham WGRW – Anniston WGTF – Dothan WIJD – Prichard WILF – Monroeville WIRB – Level Plains WJCK – Piedmont WJEC – Vernon WJIA – Guntersville WJIF – Opp WJIK – Fulton WJSD-LP – Henagar WKNG-FM – Heflin WKRE – Argo WKUA – Moundville WKWL – Florala WKZD - Priceville WLBF – Montgomery WLJR – Birmingham WLPR – Prichard WLVM – Chickasaw WMBV – Dixons Mills WMCJ – Cullman WMFT – Tuscaloosa WMGY – Montgomery WMMA – Irondale/Birmingham WMOB – Mobile WNGL – Mobile WPMR-LP – Russellville WQEM – Columbiana WQLS – Camden WRNF – Selma WRNK-LP – Lanett WSJL – Bessemer WSTF – Andalusia WTBB – Gadsden WTBJ – Oxford WTOF – Bay Minette WURY-LP – Phenix City WVMB-LP – Madison WVOB – Dothan WVPL – Dozier WWFC-LP – Bryant WXJC-FM – Cordova WYFD – Decatur

Defunct	WKOC-LP – Ider WUAC-LP – Tuscaloosa WZTQ – Centre

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Alabama See also Classical Jazz Religious Spanish Smooth Jazz Other

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