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| City of license | Warrior, Alabama |
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| 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 |
| HAAT | 408 meters |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 65227 |
| Callsign meaning | BirmingHam's Kiss[1] |
| Former callsigns | WLBI (1991-1996)[2] |
| Owner | Cox Broadcasting |
| Sister stations | WAGG, WBHJ, WBPT, WZNN, WENN, WZZK |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 987kiss.com |
WBHK (98.7 FM, "98.7 Kiss FM") is an urban adult contemporary music formatted 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 station. 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.[3]
The station has an 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.
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History [link]
98.7 began as WLBI, "Great 98", a 6 kW rimshot hot adult contemporary station licensed to Warrior. The station was assigned the WLBI call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on December 13, 1991.[2] Its tower was on a hill off Arkadelphia Road west of Warrior, and they broadcast from a small trailer also located in Warrior. The station was built by Terry Bentley Lowery and Danny Bentley, both with broadcasting interests in Oneonta, Alabama.
In 1994, the station became known as "98 Lite", and changed to a soft adult contemporary format. In 1995, the station began adding smooth jazz programming and eventually morphed into a smooth jazz format; the station continued to broadcast as "98 Lite".
In 1996, after many years as a low-rated AC, the station became an urban AC with the moniker and slogan, "98.7 Kiss FM, Smooth R&B and Classic Soul", changing to its current WBHK callsign on July 1, 1996.[2] 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.
Station management [link]
- General Manager: David Dubose
- Operations Manager: Kori White
- Program Director: Daryl Johnson
- Music Director: Chris Coleman
- News Director: Reginald Greene
- Public Affairs Director: Hollis Wormsby
References [link]
- ^ Nelson, Bob (2008-10-18). "Call Letter Origins". The Broadcast Archive. https://nelson.oldradio.com/origins.call-list.html. Retrieved 2008-10-31.
- ^ a b c "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database. https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=65227&Callsign=WBHK.
- ^ Ekman, Jennifer (September 1, 2006). "Cox rocks Birmingham". Birmingham Business Journal. https://baltimore.bizjournals.com/birmingham/stories/2006/09/04/focus1.html.
External links [link]
- 98.7 Kiss FM WBHK official website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WBHK
- Radio-Locator information on WBHK
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WBHK
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A Crooked Nigga Too (Raphael Saadiq Remix)
by: 2PacYo 'Pac yo, I heard you got beat up by the police
Got a big fat lawsuit and everything
Niggaz just wanna know
if you still gon' be on some crooked-ass sheeeit
[2Pac]
Please tell me what's a nigga to do, and it's true
Ain't nuttin new, so I do, what I can to get through
Now first they had me trapped and now I'm pissed
A loaded AK-47 lay under my head so I don't trip
One motherfucker from the Underground
And Big Stretch buckin niggaz if they fuck around
Yo why I got beef with police?
Ain't that a bitch that motherfuckers got a beef with me
They make it hard for me to sleep
I wake up at the slightest peep, and my sheets are 3 feet deep
I guess it's hard for you to see
But now I'm pointin the finger at police
instead of them motherfuckers blamin me
I got the right to bear a pistol
And when the punk motherfuckers get to trippin I got shit too
And maybe then you'll see the truth (hell yeah)
But until then, I gotta do what I do
and stay a crooked nigga too
[Chorus: Raphael Saadiq]
I've got to do, what I'm gon' do
I'm gon' say what I'm gon' say
I'm gon' live how I live - how else you want a nigga to live?
I'm gon' do, what I do
I'm gon' say, what I say
I'm gon' live how I live - how do you want a nigga to live?
[2Pac]
Y'know you really can't say that ya blame niggaz
Fuck bein tame, set aflame, time to aim triggers
2Pac'll spark a revolution, fuck the Constitution
I want my bucks for restitution
This time you got a bigger problem
Time to face the niggaz from South Central, Oakland, Brooklyn and Harlem
And we ain't shootin at each other
That's my motherfuckin brother, so Dave Duke, run for cover
And all the bitches from the Klan
Come feel the wrath of a black man that doesn't smoke crack and
I don't drink St. Ides (fuck that!)
Genuine Draft, ganja ganja, and my fuckin tec-9
They know they scared to see us sober
Stop drinkin King Cobra, and niggaz'll take the world over
It's all up to you (up to you)
Blame the Korean, blame the jew, or be a crooked nigga too
[Chorus]
[2Pac]
Aiyyo! Why me? Play like Jasmine Guy and try me
I'll be damned if I die, come look at the rage in my eyes G
They got my homies in a jail cell
And it's the Rebel and the Devil, and one of us is goin to Hell
I got the whole place covered, with loc'd out brothers
And nuttin but love for each other
So motherfucker make a motion
I give a fuck, slice you up, and throw your ass in the ocean
Temperatures drop; see it's cool to shoot a nigga
but they hate it when we pop the cops
That's when they gettin petrol
You better watch your step or you'll be left on death row
But I learn to look ahead of me
Stay strapped watch your back keep your eyes on the enemy
We blowin up precincts and OOOH
You can't fuck with the crew, of crooked nigga too
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[Raphael Saadiq]
It's the coldest town from here to Georgia
(I'm a crooked nigga too)
It's the coldest town from here to Georgia
It's the coldest town from here to Georgia
(I'm a crooked.. crooked nigga too)
It's the coldest town from here to Georgia
Y'all gon' stop fuckin with me
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