WBHJ

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WBHJ
City of license	Midfield/Birmingham
Broadcast area	Birmingham
Branding	"95.7 Jamz"
Slogan	Birmingham's #1 for Hip-Hop and R&B, Bangin' 95 Minutes of Music All the Time
First air date	1958
Frequency	95.7(MHz)
Format	Urban Contemporary Hit Radio
ERP	12,200 watts
Class	C1
Callsign meaning	W BirmingHam's Jamz
Owner	Cox Broadcasting
Website	http://957jamz.com/

WBHJ, known locally over the air as "95.7 Jamz", is an Urban-formatted radio station that serves Birmingham. In 2005, it also began broadcasting in IBOC digital radio, using the HD Radio system from iBiquity. It is owned by Cox Radio Holdings. Other stations in the Birmingham market owned by Cox are WBHK (98.7 FM), WZZK (104.7 FM), WBPT (106.9 FM), WNCB (97.3 FM), WAGG (610 AM), and WPSB (1320 AM). Its transmitter is located atop Red Mountain in Birmingham.

Contents 1 History 2 Station Line-Up 3 Station Management 4 External links

[edit] History

95.7 originally came on the air in 1958 as WTBC, a Tuscaloosa station that was a companion to WTBC-AM News/Talk 1230 with transmitter on 15th Street. As WTBC-FM, the station was just a placeholder for the AM station, playing a stack of MOR format LP's on a turntable. A contributor who worked at WTBC-AM notes that when the stack of records was finished, it just started playing over! Station IDs weren't done regularly because they were done by the often-forgetful AM jocks. The program director would go live for a few hours each night and was probably the only live person on the air daily. It later became WUOA (University of Alabama), an adult contemporary-formatted college radio station. Another change occurred with the calls to WFFX, 95.7 the Fox and the addition of modern rock.

It then moved into the Birmingham market in the 1990's, and was during that period the transmitter moved to a taller tower near Vance. In 1997, the calls were changed as well as the format of the station to WBHJ, "95.7 Jamz", an Urban-formatted radio station that disguises as a rhythmic.

In November 2004, after years of being plagued by an inadequate signal into its primary listening area of Birmingham, the station applied for a construction permit to FCC to move its transmitter from Vance to Red Mountain. In June 2005 the station completed a move to boost its signal in the Birmingham market by getting relicensed to the Birmingham suburb of Midfield and moving their transmitter site from rural Bibb County (near Vance) to the Red Mountain, where the other high-power Birmingham stations are located. Although they've had to reduce their power from 100 kilowatts to just 12.2 kilowatts, the move has provided a good signal to listeners in the immediate area market area. The move was made just in time; they now have competition from "Hot 107.7", formerly a rock station, with a much bigger signal in and out of the metro area.

[edit] Station Line-Up

Weekdays

• Buckewilde Morning Show with Ebony - 6-10AM
• Mid-Day Vibe with MaryK - 10AM-3PM
• B. Money - 3-7PM
• The House Party with Lil' Homie - 7PM-Midnight
• Overnight Situation with Young Dil - Midnight-6AM

Swing Shift Personalities

• Tarra Rose
• Civilocity
• Mz. Katt
• Woo
• Kennedi Stone
• Streetz
• Toya G
• Calvin
• Snipe

[edit] Station Management

• General Manager David Dubose
• Operations Manager Jay Dixon
• Program Director Mickey Johnson
• Assistant Program Director Mary K
• Music Director Jerome "Lil' Homie" Crumpton

[edit] External links

• Official Website of 95.7 Jamz
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WBHJ