Technical Profile: WOAB

FM Technical Profile: WOAB

Station Name:: —
Frequency:: 104.9
Format:: Spanish
Transmitter Location:: [map] [street view] West of Ozark, north of AL-27 on Rebecca Lane. Co-located with WOZK.
Power (ERP):: 2.5 kW
Antenna:: Omni
Antenna HAAT:: 269 feet
Other Information:: 60 dBu protected contour map, from the FCC.; Mono

// WALQ Carrville
// WZGX Bessemer
// W274BG Montgomery
More Information:: [FCC]; [FCCdata]; [Radio-Locator]; [Wikipedia]

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Owner:: Autaugaville Radio
History:: Ozark Broadcasting Company put this station on the air in 1963 as the FM companion to WOZK AM. It signed on with 2.85 kW from a Jampro JA-5B 5-bay antenna mounted on the AM tower at 178 feet, fed by a CCA-FM-1000D transmitter. Two years after signing on, the station changed to a CCA-6811-4 4 bay FM antenna at 340 feet, with an ERP of 2.226 kW, fed by a CCA-FM-3000D. In the early days, the station simulcast the AM only part time; 100 hours of programming per week were dedicated to Country & Western music.

In 1971, the station changed to 2.25 kW at 335 feet HAAT, fed by a CCA FMC-LP 6-bay antenna. By the mid-70's, the station was a full time Country music station. It would retain this same format until well into the 21st Century, when it eventually began simulcasting the AM's Adult Standards format.

At some point between 2005-2010, the AM and FM simulcast transitioned to a Oldies/Classic Hits music format.

Station owned Julian "J.B." Brown passed away in March 2014.

It was announced that Dockins Communications would purchase the station and WOZK in May 2021, for $125,000. After the sale closed, the format flipped to Country as "Kickin' Country 104.9".

In mid-April 2024 it was announced the station and its sister AM WOZK were being acquired by Roscoe "Killer Diller" Miller's Autaugaville Radio for $160,000. While the AM flipped to Miller's "The Big K-D" urban format, this station flipped to Spanish programming, presumably simulcasting his other Spanish-language properties in Carrville and Bessemer.