City | Urbana, Illinois |
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Broadcast area | Champaign, Illinois |
Slogan | The Soul Of The Twin Cities |
Frequency | 1580 kHz |
First air date | 1948 |
Format | Urban Adult Contemporary |
Power | 135 watts (day) 6 watts (night) |
Class | D |
Former callsigns | WJTX, WCCR, WKID |
Owner | P & C Enterprises Inc. |
Website | wbcp1580.com |
WBCP (1580 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an Urban Adult Contemporary music format. It is licensed to Urbana, Illinois and broadcasts to the Champaign, Illinois area. The 1580 frequency was established as a daytime only operation in 1948 as WKID. Call letters were later changed to WCCR in 1969, WJTX in 1984, and WBCP in 1990. The station is currently owned by P & C Enterprises, Inc. Despite its solid signal throughout the Champaign area, WBCP has the distinction of being the radio station with the lowest daytime power of any licensed AM station in the USA.
Coordinates: 40°07′35″N 88°17′25″W / 40.12639°N 88.29028°W