FM Technical Profile: WQEM
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- Station Name:
- -
- Frequency:
- 101.5
- Format:
- Religious: Glen
Iris Baptist Church
- Transmitter
Location:
- [map]
In rural central Shelby County, between Alabaster and Columbiana on
CR-331, between the road and Bounds Lake, behind the water tower.
- Power (ERP):
- 1.8 kW
- Antenna:
- Omnidirectional
- Antenna HAAT:
- 607 feet
- Other
Information:
- 60 dBu protected
contour
map, from the FCC.
:
PS-WGIB-Where God Is Blessing - 205-323-1516
Time-[?]
Text-WGIB-WHERE GOD IS
BLESSING
PTY-Religious Music
PI-WGIB-FM
- More
Information:
- [FCC]
- [FCCdata]
- [Radio-Locator]
- [Wikipedia]
[Facebook]
For the Glen Iris Baptist School
[Twitter] For the
Glen Iris Baptist Church
- Owner:
- Glen Iris
Baptist School
- History:
- This station dates back
to an original construction permit issued in the fall of 1996 to a
company called Sharepoint Management, Inc. Eleven months after
getting the permit, they assigned ownership to a company called
Southern Star Communications. Eleven months after that
transfer, the license was transferred to Clear Channel
Communications, who was unable to get the station on the air before
the original permit expired. After getting the permit
re-instated, the station picked up the WQEM calls and was first was
heard on air in October 1999, relaying Clear Channel's CHR 103.7 WQEN
in mono.
- In January 2003
WQEM changed from a relay of WQEN-FM Gadsden to a relay of WGIB-FM
Birmingham. The deal occurred to allow Clear Channel's 102.5 WDXB to
relocate from the Tuscaloosa tall tower to a site in Birmingham on
Red Mountian. As part of the deal, Clear Channel sold this
station for $1,000 and access to WGIB's tower site on Red
Mountain. WGIB relocated to Double Oak Mountain at US-280 in
southeast Birmingham and picked up more power and a bigger coverage
area, as well as this relay. In the winter of 2005/2006 the
station received a permit to slightly increase power, from the
original 1.4 kW to 1.8 kW.
The station was reported off the air in the middle of December 2018,
and back in early January 2019.