Birach Broadcasting Corporation
{{Short description|American radio station company}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
Birach Broadcasting Corporation is a company based in Southfield, Michigan, USA, that owns several AM radio stations and, formerly, one low-power television (LPTV) station in the US.{{Cite web |title=Birach Broadcasting Corp - Company Profile and News |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0131351D:US |access-date=2024-02-24 |website=Bloomberg}} Many stations in the Birach portfolio run ethnic broadcasting. The company is wholly owned by its president and CEO Sima Birach.
Stations owned
=Radio stations=
| class="wikitable sortable" | |
| scope = "col" | Callsign
! scope = "col" | Frequency ! scope = "col" | Band ! scope = "col" | City ! scope = "col" | State ! scope = "col" | Format | |
|---|---|
| scope="row" | WWCS
| 540 || AM || Canonsburg || PA || Brokered (Overcomer Ministry) | |
| scope="row" | WGOP
| 540 || AM || Pocomoke City || MD || Silent{{efn|Operated by Bay Broadcasting Inc. (Michael Powell) under an LMA. Currently silent after the station's facilities were destroyed in a 2022 fire.}} | |
| scope="row" | WMFN
| 640 || AM || Peotone || IL || Black Information Network{{efn|Operated by iHeartMedia under a local marketing agreement.}} | |
| scope="row" rowspan="2" | WNZK{{Efn|WNZK broadcasts on {{frequency|690|kHz}} during the daytime and on {{frequency|680|kHz}} during the nighttime; it is the only mediumwave radio station in North America licensed to operate on two different frequencies with the same license, a privilege otherwise only granted to shortwave stations.}}
| 690 || AM | rowspan="2" | Dearborn Heights | rowspan="2" | MI | rowspan="2" | Ethnic, talk | |
| 680 | AM |
| scope="row" | WDMV
| 700 || AM || Walkersville || MD || Spanish | |
| scope="row" | WEW
| 770 || AM || St. Louis || MO || Brokered (Overcomer Ministry) | |
| scope="row" | WTOR
| 770 || AM || Youngstown || NY || Ethnic{{efn|Operated by Radio Saaz-o-Awaz in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, under a local marketing agreement. Birach holds the WTOR license due to regulations forbidding foreign ownership of stations.}} | |
| scope="row" | WIJR | |
| scope="row" | WNWI | |
| scope="row" | WCAR | |
| scope="row" | WCXI
| 1160 || AM || Fenton || MI || Brokered (Overcomer Ministry) | |
| scope="row" | WCXN
| 1170 || AM || Claremont || NC || Brokered (Overcomer Ministry) | |
| scope="row" | KJMU
| 1340 || AM || Sand Springs || OK || Spanish | |
| scope="row" | KOLE
| 1340 || AM || Port Arthur || TX || Brokered (Overcomer Ministry) | |
| scope="row" | WBRD
| 1420 || AM || Palmetto || FL || Brokered (Overcomer Ministry) | |
| scope="row" | WBVA
| 1450 || AM || Bayside || VA || Defunct, license deleted by FCC | |
| scope="row" | WPON
| 1460 || AM || Walled Lake || MI || Oldies | |
| scope="row" | KXLQ
| 1490 || AM || Indianola || IA || Regional Mexican | |
| scope="row" | WVAB
| 1550 || AM || Virginia Beach || VA || Defunct, license deleted by FCC |
{{notelist}}
=Television station=
| class="wikitable" |
| Station
! Channel ! Community of license ! Network ! Notes |
|---|
| scope="row" | KIJR-LP
| 47 || Lucerne Valley, California || | Defunct; license cancelled July 8, 2022 |
References
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External links
- [http://www.birach.com/ Official site]
{{Birach Broadcasting}}
Category:Radio broadcasting companies of the United States
Category:Television broadcasting companies of the United States