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WFER - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 46°03′55″N 88°38′17″W / 46.06528°N 88.63806°W

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WFER
Iron River, Michigan
Broadcast area	[1]
Frequency	1230 kHz
Branding	97.9 WFER
Programming
Format	Classic country
Affiliations	Compass Media Networks
Ownership
Owner	Morgan Murphy Media (Queen Bee's Knees LLC)
Sister stations	WIKB-FM
History
First air date	November 15, 1949 (1949-11-15) (as WIKB)
Former call signs	WIKB (1949–2010)
Technical information^[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	49684
Class	C
Power	1,000 watts unlimited
Translator(s)	97.9 W250CQ (Iron River)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	wferam.com

WFER (1230 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic country format. Licensed to Iron River, Michigan, it first began broadcasting in 1949. The station's format changed in early July 2015 to classic hits from talk. Some programming was derived from Westwood One's Classic Hits-Rock 24/7 format.

WIKB had previously been a simulcast of WIKB-FM 99.1's oldies format until the stations were sold to Heartland Communications. Heartland continued the oldies format on AM 1230 while changing FM 99.1 to adult contemporary as "The Breeze." WIKB soon dropped oldies in favor of adult standards.

In May 2010, former Armada Media CEO Jim Coursolle and his wife Diane closed on a purchase of a two-thirds interest in owner Heartland Communications from Granite Equity Partners. In early June, the Coursolles changed the format of WIKB-FM to country music, and announced plans to drop the America's Best Music adult standards format on AM 1230 (which had changed its calls to WFER in May) in favor of a conservative talk format featuring personalities such as Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Michael Savage. The new format is dubbed "Freedom Talk." A similar format has been installed on sister stations WATW in Ashland, Wisconsin, WNBI in Park Falls, Wisconsin, and WERL in Eagle River, Wisconsin; WATW and WERL formerly aired Dial Global's Adult Standards feed (as did WIKB/WFER) while WNBI was an ESPN Radio affiliate.

WFER was sold effective June 30, 2015 to Stephen Marks' Iron River Community Broadcasting Corporation, at a purchase price of $488,000. The sale included sister station WIKB-FM, as well as co-owned WCQM and WPFP. WFER changed its format to classic hits following the sale.

In September 2023, The Marks Group sold the Michigan broadcasting properties—WBKB-TV, WBKP, WBUP, and the Houghton and Iron River radio stations—for $13.375 million to Morgan Murphy Media.^[2] The deal was closed on December 4.^[3]

References

^ "Facility Technical Data for WFER". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
^ Venta, Lance (2023-09-14). "Morgan Murphy Media Acquires Northern Michigan TV/Radio Combo". RadioInsight. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
^ "Done Deal: Morgan Murphy Media Completes Purchase Of Marks Media Group Stations". Insideradio.com. 4 December 2023. Retrieved 10 December 2023.

Michiguide.com - WIKB History

External links

Facility details for Facility ID 49684 (WFER) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
WFER in Nielsen Audio's AM station database

Facility details for Facility ID 200556 (W250CQ) in the FCC Licensing and Management System

Radio stations in the Iron Mountain, Michigan, micropolitan area

By AM frequency

1230
1450

By FM frequency

Translators	95.3 105.9 107.5

By call sign

Radio stations in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan: Houghton; Iron Mountain; Marquette; Sault Ste. Marie–Newberry

Other nearby regions: Door County; Green Bay; Wausau–Stevens Point

See also: List of radio stations in Michigan

Country radio stations in the state of Michigan

Adrian
- WQTE
Alpena
- WATZ-FM
Ann Arbor
- WWWW-FM
Bad Axe
- WLEW
Big Rapids
- WWBR
Bridgman
- WYTZ
Caro
- WKYO
Constantine/South Bend IN
- WGNC-FM
Detroit
- WYCD
Escanaba
- WGMV
- WYKX
Flint
- WFBE
Gaylord
- WSRT
Gladwin
- WGDN-FM
Grand Rapids
- WBCT
- WCMM
- WTNR
- WYGR
Harbor Beach
- WCZE
Harrison
- WKKM-LP
Hastings
- WBCH-FM
Hillsdale
- WCSR
Houghton
- WHKB
Houghton Lake
- WTWS
Iron Mountain
- WJNR-FM
Iron River
- WFER
Ironwood
- WJMS
Ishpeming
- WJPD
- WUPG
Jackson
- WIBM
- WWDK
Kalamazoo/Battle Creek
- WKFR-HD2
- WNWN
L'Anse
- WCUP
Lansing
- WITL-FM
Luna Pier
- WMIM
Manistique
- WTIQ
Marlette
- WBGV
Marquette
- WFXD
Menominee/Marinette WI
- WLST
Mundy Township
- WMRP-LP
Muskegon
- WMUS
Newberry
- WNBY
Ontonagon
- WUPY
Otsego
- WAKV
Petoskey
- WMKC
Port Huron
- WSAQ
Rogers City
- WRGZ
Saginaw/Bay City
- WCEN-FM
- WKCQ
Saint Louis
- WMLM
Sandusky
- WMIC
Sault Ste. Marie
- WMKD
Scottville
- WKZC
Shepherd
- WMMI
Tawas City
- WKJC
Three Rivers
- WRCI
Traverse City
- WCCW
- WTCM-FM
West Branch
- WBMI
Whitehall
- WLAW
- WLAW-FM

See also: adult contemporary; classic hits; college; country; news/talk; NPR; oldies; religious; rock; sports; top 40; urban; other radio stations in Michigan

v t e Stations of The Marks Group
Radio stations	KDSR KDZN KGCX KIKC KIKC-FM KMTA KXDI KXGN KXWI KYUS WCCY WCQM WFER WHKB WIKB-FM WOLV WOWZ-FM WPFP
Television stations	KXGN (CBS/MTN, NBC) KYUS (NBC/KULR)¹ WBKB (CBS, NBC, Fox/MNTV, ABC) WBKP (The CW) WBUP (ABC, The CW)
¹ KYUS is operated by the Cowles Company via a time brokerage agreement.

46°03′55″N 88°38′17″W / 46.06528°N 88.63806°W / 46.06528; -88.63806

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