WIRB

WIRB

City of license	Level Plains, Alabama
Broadcast area	Wiregrass Region
Branding	Gospel Radio WIRB
Frequency	1490 AM (kHz)
First air date	2006
Format	Christian Music
Power	1,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (night)
Class	C
Facility ID	129516
Transmitter coordinates	31°17′58″N 85°47′26″W / 31.29944°N 85.79056°W / 31.29944; -85.79056
Owner	Virgle Leon Strickland

WIRB (1490 AM, "Gospel Radio WIRB") is a radio station licensed to serve Level Plains, Alabama, USA, a suburb of Enterprise, Alabama. The station is owned by Virgle Leon Strickland.

This WIRB is unrelated to the WIRB formerly licensed to Enterprise that broadcast at 600 kHz from 1948 to 1988.^[1] That station changed its call letters to WLHQ on May 11, 1988, before going off the air for good. It was deleted from the FCC database on May 13, 1992.^[2] This radio station is also unrelated to the television station in Melbourne, Florida, that used the WIRB callsign from May 1, 1992, until February 13, 1998, when it became WOPX.^[3]

Programming

Gospel Radio WIRB broadcasts a Christian music format which is a blend of Southern Gospel, Contemporary Christian, Contemporary worship music aka Praise & Worship, and Urban Gospel music.

The Ultimate Drive at 5 is a one-hour live show, hosted by Sir Travis and Kyle St. Andrews, that is aired each weekday afternoon. The Ultimate Drive was first aired on May 5, 2008.

History

This station received its original its license to cover from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on December 11, 2006.^[4]

References

External links

• Gospel Radio WIRB at MySpace
• Ultimate Drive at MySpace
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WIRB
• Radio-Locator Information on WIRB
• Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WIRB