WSBM

WSBM 97.9 FM 1340 AM Fox Sports Shoals

City	Florence, Alabama
Broadcast area	Florence-Muscle Shoals
Branding	Fox Sports Shoals
Slogan	Where Sports Beats Music
Frequency	1340 kHz
Translator(s)	97.9 FM W250BY (Florence)
First air date	March 29, 1946
Format	Sports
Power	1,000 watts unlimited
Class	C
Facility ID	5272
Transmitter coordinates	34°47′50.00″N 87°39′54.00″W / 34.7972222°N 87.6650000°W
Callsign meaning	Sports Beats Music
Former callsigns	WJOI (1946-1973) WXOR (1973-1984)
Owner	Big River Broadcasting Corporation
Sister stations	WQLT-FM, WXFL, WLVS-FM
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	wsbm.com

WSBM (1340 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports radio format.^[1] Licensed to Florence, Alabama, USA, the station serves the Florence-Muscle Shoals area. The station is currently owned by Big River Broadcasting Corporation.^[2]

Translators

WSBM AM 1340 is currently rebroadcast on translator W253AH 98.5 FM. This translator had previously broadcast on 98.3 FM until its frequency was changed in 2001. Incidentally, this was the same frequency as WJOI-FM which was on the air in the early- and mid-1950s. This was a 140-watt FM station (the first FM station in the Florence-Muscle Shoals market) which rebroadcast WJOI AM 1340. W253AH uses the old WJOI-FM antenna which was mounted on 1340's tower in the 1950s.^[3]

WJOI-FM went off the air sometime in the late 1950s, and should not be confused with the 1960s' WJOI-FM on 107.3 which later became WQLT.

Call sign	Frequency (MHz)	City of license	ERP W	Class	FCC info
W250BY	97.9	Florence, Alabama	24	D	FCC

References

1. "WSBM Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
2. "Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
3. "WJOI AM 1340 - FM 98.3". Shoals Area Radio History.

External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for WSBM
• Radio-Locator Information on WSBM
• Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WSBM