WBML

WBML
City of license Macon, Georgia
Broadcast area Macon area
Slogan Real Country WBML
Frequency 900 kHz
Format Real Country
Power 2,000 watts day
145 watts night
Class D
Facility ID 71216
Affiliations parent company owns Houston Home Journal newspaper in Perry, GA
Owner Sun Broadcasting,Inc.
Sister stations WXKO-AM 1150, W290AQ 105.9

WBML (900 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Country radio format. Licensed to Macon, Georgia, USA, the station serves the Macon area. Originally licensed to 1240 kc. on the AM dial, WBML signed on the mid-1940s. During the 1950s and '60s WBML established itself as the station to turn to for breaking news. Station management placed mobile units on the streets of Macon throughout most of the day and night. In 1976 Prairieland Broadcasters of Decatur, Illinois sold the station to Jack Tyken who changed the format from pop to country. That format change lasted only a few months before the station was sold again and moved from its signature "Peek-A-Blue" building on Macon's Riverside Drive to a location in east Macon. Jim Lee, a Macon city police officer and later a member of the City Council was the station's News Director throughout much of the 1960s. The air staff included one of the city's most popular announcers, Don King, who would later work for WMAZ. After years as a Christian station, WBML was sold to Sun Broadcasting in June 2011 and began programming a Classic/Mainstream Country Format in July 2011.

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