FM Technical Profile: WBFR
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- Station Name:
- Family Radio
- Frequency:
- 89.5
- Format:
- Christian
Religious: Family Radio network affiliate
- Transmitter
Location:
- [map]
[street
view] [bird's
eye] Approximately 1/2 mile east of I-65 on Red Mountain, just
west of the "Pickle Fork" broadcast tower on Beacon Parkway East.
- Power (ERP):
- 95 watts
- Antenna:
- Omnidirectional
- Antenna HAAT:
- 705 feet
- Other
Information:
- 60 dBu protected
contour
map, from the FCC.
- More Information:
- [FCC]
- [FCCdata]
- [Radio-Locator]
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[Wikipedia]
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For this station
- Owner:
- Loam Media
- History:
- Signed on in
February 1989 and has always been a Family Radio affiliate.
The station briefly operated at lower than authorized power through
a Special Temporary Authority (STA) due to a problem with the
transmission system in February 2016. A few months later, the
station received its first ever construction permit for an upgrade
in July of 2016. The antenna height was to be lowered but with
a power increase and a horizontal component added. Tower
coordinates were also corrected, although it does not affect the
Transmitter Location links on this page. That permit expired,
unbuilt.
In April 2023, the station again applied for changes, this time
including an increase in antenna height, with a corresponding drop
in power from 100 watts vertical only to 95 watts horizontal and
vertical polarization. That permit was granted at the end of
May 2023, and a license to cover was filed in the middle of July
2023.
In October 2024 Family Radio, Inc. filed to change the name of the
parent corporation to Loam Media.