WERC ( AM ) - wikipedia WERC ( AM ) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( October 2008 ) WERC City Birmingham, Alabama Branding News Radio 105.5 WERC Frequency 960 kHz ( also on HD Radio ) First air date May 25, 1925 Format News / Talk Power 5,000 watts Class Facility ID 2112 Transmitter coordinates 33 ° 32 ′ 02 '' N 86 ° 51 ′ 07 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 33.53389 ° N 86.85194 ° W ﻿ / 33.53389 ; - 86.85194 Callsign meaning We 're the Bell Radio Company ( derived from WBRC calls ) Former callsigns 2011 : WVVB ( 149 days ) 1972 - 2011 : WERC 1925 - 1972 : WBRC Former frequencies 1210 kHz ( 1925 - 1927 ) 1230 kHz ( 1927 ) 1240 kHz ( 1927 - 1928 ) 990 kHz ( 1928 ) 930 kHz ( 1928 - 1941 ) Affiliations Fox News Radio Premiere Radio Networks WBRC - TV Owner iHeartMedia, Inc. ( Capstar TX LLC ) Sister stations WDXB, WERC - FM, WMJJ, WQEN Webcast Listen Live Website wercfm.com WERC ( 960 AM ) -- branded News Radio 105.5 WERC -- is a news / talk radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, and serving the Birmingham market as a complete simulcast of sister station WERC - FM. It operates unlimited hours with 5,000 watts. The station has studios at Beacon Ridge Tower in Birmingham ( near Red Mountain ) and its transmitter is northwest of downrown Birmingham. WERC originated the talk format currently heard on WERC - FM from 1982 until 2011, and was the first station in Birmingham to carry an all - talk format. The format - and the WERC calls - migrated to the 105.5 facility in 2010 before both returned to the AM station in July 2011. WERC is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc... Other stations in the Birmingham market owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. include WMJJ ( 96.5 FM ), WDXB ( 102.5 FM ), WQEN ( 103.7 FM ), and WERC - FM ( 105.5 FM ). iHeartMedia also programs W276BQ ( 103.1 ), a translator owned by Red Mountain Broadcasting, LLC. W276BQ rebroadcasts the programming of the HD2 channel of WQEN, branded as `` 103.1 The Vulcan '' ( and was also relayed on this facility from January to June 2011 under the WVVB calls ). Contents 1 Programming 2 History 3 References 4 External links Programming Like most Clear Channel talk stations, WERC airs several local programs, as well as nationally syndicated programs such as The Glenn Beck Program, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Schnitt Show, The Savage Nation and America Now with Andy Dean. In addition, WERC simulcasts the audio feed of WBRC - TV 's early morning and late night newscasts, along with breaking news / weather coverage ( in effect continuing the linkage between WERC and its onetime sister TV station ). Overnight, the station broadcasts the syndicated Coast to Coast AM hosted by George Noory. The station also broadcasts the syndicated Saturday night program Somewhere In Time, which consists of reruns of Art Bell - hosted editions of Coast to Coast AM. History The forerunner of WERC was the first radio station in Birmingham, and the second station in Alabama. It signed on in May 1925 as WBRC, owned by Birmingham doctor J.C. Bell ; the call letters stood for Bell Radio Corporation. It broadcast with 50 watts power at 1210 AM from a transmitter in Bell 's Fountain Heights home. In 1928, businessman M.D. Smith bought a controlling stake in the station from Bell for $2,000. Throughout the 1920s the station increased its broadcast power several times as well as its broadcast frequency. It also moved its studios several times, eventually moving to the Bankhead Hotel in downtown Birmingham by 1932. By 1935, the station was affiliated with the NBC network. In 1947, it advertised that it `` was the first radio station in the Deep South to subscribe to full day and night news wire service -- INS. '' Smith died in 1937, and his wife, Eloise, inherited the station. In 1940, she became full owner of WBRC. In 1946, WBRC introduced the first FM station in Birmingham. Due to the lack of FM radios in Birmingham, WBRC - FM was not very successful, and was taken off the air two years later. Undaunted, in 1949, Hanna launched the WBRC - TV, Alabama 's second television station, on channel 4. Hanna retired in 1953, and sold the stations to Storer Broadcasting in 1953. Four years later, the stations were sold to Taft Broadcasting. The advent of television in the 1950s caused network radio programming to decline. By the early 1960s, WBRC was one of two `` middle of the road '' music stations in Birmingham. It continued in that format until 1972, when Taft Broadcasting sold WBRC and a revived WBRC - FM ( 106.9 FM ) to Mooney Broadcasting. Taft retained ownership of WBRC - TV until 1987. As Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) regulations at that time prohibited non-commonly owned stations from sharing call letters, Mooney changed the call letters of the radio stations to WERC and WERC - FM -- a deliberate nod to the old call letters. WERC was christened `` 96 - ERC '', and launched an all - out assault on the market 's leading top 40 station, WSGN ( now WAGG ). For much of the 1970s, WERC and WSGN were two of the most listened - to stations in Birmingham. The beginning of WERC 's demise as a top 40 powerhouse came in 1977, when its own FM sister station was relaunched as top 40 station WKXX, `` Kicks 106 '' ( now WBPT ). By 1980, WERC modified its format to adult contemporary music and was known as '' News Plus 960, WERC ''. An afternoon drive sports call - in show hosted by future University of Alabama football announcer Eli Gold was launched in 1981. Competing unsuccessfully against WSGN and WAPI as an adult contemporary station, WERC dropped music in May, 1982 and changed to a news - talk format, which it continued with until January 2011. The station was an early affiliate for Rush Limbaugh 's radio network. For much of the 1990s the WERC line - up featured TC and John Ed as morning hosts, Paul Finebaum in the afternoons, and Russ and Dee Fine hosting evenings. During a 1993 snowstorm that paralyzed the Birmingham area, WERC became the primary source of information and assistance for hundreds of thousands of residents that were stranded by the weather without power ( in some cases, for weeks ). WERC began to transition its format to the FM dial on July 6, 2009, when a new incarnation of WERC - FM replaced modern rock station WVVB ( '' The Vulcan '' ) at 105.5 FM. 960 AM simulcast with 105.5 FM until January 7, 2011, when it began originating the programming being broadcast on a new FM translator, W276BQ, that began broadcasting on the 103.1 frequency. After stunting with several formats, ranging from oldies to classic country to adult album alternative to urban, the station settled on a permanent format on January 13, 2011, reviving the '' Vulcan '' branding with an active rock format. In addition to broadcasting on 960 AM and 103.1 FM, `` The Vulcan '' also broadcast on WQEN - HD2 103.7 - 2. The transition was completed on February 15, 2011, when the WERC call letters were replaced with 105.5 's former WVVB call letters. On June 23, 2011, WVVB began simulcasting WERC - FM 's news / talk format. On July 14, 2011 WVVB changed its call letters back to WERC. 103.1 continues to broadcast the active rock format from WQEN - HD2. References ^ Jump up to : `` Alabama Affiliates ''. Coast to Coast AM. Retrieved December 31, 2011. Jump up ^ Nelson, Bob ( 2008 - 10 - 18 ). `` Call Letter Origins ''. The Broadcast Archive. Retrieved 2008 - 10 - 31. Jump up ^ `` WBRC ad '' ( PDF ). Broadcasting. August 25, 1947. Retrieved 6 October 2014. External links Official website Query the FCC 's AM station database for WERC Radio - Locator Information on WERC Query Nielsen Audio 's AM station database for WERC Radio stations serving the Birmingham, Alabama market by FM frequency 88.1 88.1 88.5 89.5 89.9 90.3 91.1 91.9 92.3 92.5 92.7 ( Vestavia Hills ) 92.7 ( Leeds ) 93.3 ( Birmingham / WFYN - LP ) 93.3 ( Birmingham / WLVC - LP ) 93.3 ( Pelham ) 93.7 94.1 94.5 94.9 95.1 95.3 95.7 96.1 96.5 96.9 ( Bessemer ) 96.9 ( Birmingham ) 97.3 97.7 98.3 98.7 99.1 99.5 100.1 100.5 101.1 101.5 102.1 102.5 103.1 103.7 104.1 104.7 105.1 105.5 106.1 106.3 106.5 106.9 107.3 107.7 by AM frequency 610 690 760 850 900 960 1070 1220 1240 1260 1320 1360 1400 1430 1450 1480 1500 1540 1570 NOAA Weather Radio frequency 162.425 162.550 by call sign KIH54 K - Love W222BK W224CK W224CN W231DE W235BS W237EK W241AI W245CS W252BE W256CD W261BX W271BN W276BQ W281AB W286BK W291DC W292EI W293CM W297BF WAGG WAPI WATV WAY - FM Network WAYE WBFR WBHJ WBHK WBHM WBPT WCRL WDJC - FM WDXB WENN WERC WERC - FM WFHK WFYN - LP WGIB WHPH WIXI WJLD WJLX WJOX WJOX - FM WJQX WKDG WKRE WLJR WLVC - LP WMJJ WMMA WNG606 WPYA WQCR WQEM WQEN WSJL WSYP - LP WUHT WURL WVBC - LP WVSU - FM WVXV - LP WXJC WXJC - FM WYDE WYDE - FM WZGX WZRR WZZK - FM Defunct WCOC ( 1010 AM ) WBYE ( 1370 AM ) WJSR ( 91.1 FM ) Alabama radio markets Birmingham Dothan Florence - Muscle Shoals Huntsville Mobile Montgomery Tuscaloosa Other Alabama radio regions Anniston Auburn Columbus, Georgia Gadsden Meridian, Mississippi See also List of radio stations in Alabama News / Talk radio stations in the state of Alabama By frequency AM 570 660 710 770 960 1070 1230 1240 1260 1270 1300 1310 1340 1400 1400 1440 1450 1450 1450 1470 1480 1490 1490 1590 FM 92.5 95.9 99.5 101.1 103.9 105.5 105.9 106.5 By callsign WAAX WANI WAPI WAVH WBCF WBHP WDBT WDNG WDYG WEKI WERC WERC - FM WERM WFEB WFPA WGSV WHBB WHEP WLWI WNTM WPNS WQSI WRTR WTKI WTLS WVNA WVNN WVNN - FM WXQW WYDE WYDE - FM WZRR By city Anniston Athens Birmingham ( WAPI ) Birmingham ( WERC ) Birmingham ( WYDE ) Birmingham ( WZRR ) Brookwood Cullman Daphne Decatur Dothan Evergreen Fairhope Florence Foley Fort Payne Fort Rucker / Dothan Gadsden Guntersville Hoover Huntsville Huntsville Mobile ( WERM ) Mobile ( WNTM ) Montgomery Opelika Selma Sylacauga Tallassee Trinity Tuscumbia Tuskegee See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news / talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Alabama iHeartMedia Corporate officers Bob Pittman ( Chairman / CEO ) Board of directors Lowry Mays Irving Azoff B.J. `` Red '' McCombs J.C. Watts John H. Williams Radio stations List of radio stations owned by iHeartMedia Radio networks Fox Sports Radio Premiere Networks Premium Choice Total Traffic and Weather Network Miscellaneous Clear Channel Outdoor Clear Channel UK iHeartRadio List of programming syndicated by iHeartMedia Mediabase Radio Computing Services Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WERC_(AM)&oldid=780547927 '' Categories : HD Radio stations Radio stations in Birmingham, Alabama News and talk radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1925 Jefferson County, Alabama Taft Broadcasting IHeartMedia radio stations Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from October 2008 All articles needing additional references Pages using deprecated image syntax Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 15 May 2017, at 20 : 09. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. 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