WIBM

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WIBM
City of license	Jackson, Michigan
Broadcast area	[1] (Daytime) [2] (Nighttime)
Branding	ESPN Radio 1450
Frequency	1450 kHz
Format	Sports
Power	810 watts
Class	C
Former callsigns	WCXI (3/29/94-12/8/95) WIBM (4/8/87-3/29/94) WXCM (6/25/80-4/8/87)
Affiliations	ESPN Radio
Owner	Jackson Radio Works
Website	http://www.espnradio1450.com/

WIBM is an ESPN Radio branded sports talk station in Jackson, Michigan. The station broadcasts at 1450 kHz on the AM dial. Jackson Radio Works owns the station along with news/talk WKHM-AM 970 and hot AC WKHM-FM "K105.3".

The WIBM call letters were assigned to Jackson, Michigan no later than 1930. Prior to that, the same call letters were assigned to a portable transmitter in Chicago (1926-28).

In the 1960s and 1970s, WIBM served as the Jackson area's Top 40 music station and was well-known locally for distributing record surveys that resembled an IBM keypunch card. In 1980, the station became WXCM with a country music format which continued until 1987, when the station went back to the heritage WIBM calls and became a simulcast of oldies-formatted WIBM-FM (94.1) (now WVIC).

The station took the WCXI calls (formerly used at AM 1130, now WDFN, and FM 92.3, now WMXD, in Detroit) in 1994 but reverted to the WIBM calls once again the following year. In 1997 the station picked up the soft AC/easy listening format from sister WKHM-FM after the FM changed to an adult CHR format as "K105.3." WIBM-AM was known as "Easy Relaxed 1450 AM" until adopting the current ESPN Radio sports format in March 1999.

[edit] Sources

• Michiguide.com - WIBM History

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for WIBM