WIJD (1270 AM) is a

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licensed to the community of

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, United States, and serves the greater

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, area. The station is owned by Wilkins Communications Network Inc. and the license is held by the Mobile Bay Corporation. It airs a

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format.

History

This station signed on in the 1954 as WAIP, a daytime-only station with a

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format. In the early 1960s, under the ownership of Holt Broadcasting, it flipped to an

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format with the call letters WSIM (for "Wonderful Sound In Mobile"). The station briefly flipped to

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then changed callsigns to WZAM and resumed a country format. In 1965, Kenneth S. Johnson bought the station and changed the call letters to WKSJ as a complement to and simulcast of country formatted WKSJ-FM. In the late 1970s the station was briefly a

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station known as WLLF before switching back to country music. In the late 1990s, the station flipped to a syndicated

format as "Impact 1270". The station changed callsigns again to WIJD on October 1,

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. This corresponded with a brief experiment as a simulcast of the

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format of WGCX in

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, before returning to talk. In Summer 2004, the station returned to religious broadcasting full-time. In April 2006, Satellite Radio Network (Michael Glinter, president) reached an agreement to sell WIJD to Wilkins Communications Network Inc. (Robert Wilkins, president) for a reported sale price of $450,000. In 2012, Wilkins Radio started broadcasting on its FM translator (W239AP) at 95.7 in Mobile, Alabama. The programming on FM is a simulcast of WIJD AM 1270. The translation is operating as W250CB at 97.9 as of December 12, 2016.

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* * {{Religious Radio Stations in Alabama IJD IJD Talk radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1954 1954 establishments in Alabama