WMIB
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| City | Fort Lauderdale |
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| Broadcast area | South Florida |
| Branding | 103.5 The Beat |
| Slogan | Miami's New #1 For Hip Hop and R&B! |
| Frequency | 103.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | October 17, 1959 (as WWIL-FM) |
| Format | FM/HD1: Urban Contemporary HD2: Russian programming (DaNu Radio) |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 307 meters (1,007 ft) |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 67193 |
| Callsign meaning | MIami's Beat |
| Former callsigns | WWIL-FM (1959-1968) WSRF-FM (1968-1972) WSHE (1972-1996) WPLL (1996-1999) WMGE (1999-2003) WSHE-FM (2012-2013) |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia (Clear Channel Broadcasting Licenses, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WBGG-FM, WHYI-FM, WINZ, WIOD, WMIA-FM, WZTU |
| Webcast | Listen Live (via iHeartRadio) |
| Website | www |
WMIB (103.5 FM) is an Urban Contemporary radio station in South Florida. It is licensed to Fort Lauderdale, Florida but it also serves Miami and Miami-Dade County. The station is owned by iHeartMedia and the broadcast license is held by Clear Channel Broadcast Licenses, Inc. It has changed call signs and programming formats many times in the past 15 years with its call signs including WWIL-FM, WSRF-FM, WSHE, WPLL, WMGE, and WSHE-FM.
Its studios are located in Miramar and the transmitter site is in Miami Gardens.
WMIB is licensed by the FCC to broadcast in the HD Radio (hybrid) format.
The station started as WWIL-FM in 1959. Until 1972, and after a call letter change to WSRF-FM in 1968, the station carried a beautiful music format. In 1972, the station flipped to an album oriented rock (AOR) format, branded as WSHE. Following its purchase by Paxson Communications in April 1996, WSHE dismissed all airstaff and promoted a change at 1:03 PM on May 2. At that time, after playing "Changes" by David Bowie, the AOR format ended after 24 years in favor of a Modern AC format, first as "The New 103.5", then as "Planet Radio" with new callsign WPLL. Another format change by the station's next and current owner, iHeartMedia (then called Clear Channel Communications), this time to "Jammin' Oldies" format, resulted in another call letter/branding change to WMGE, "Mega 103.5", at midnight on June 30, 1999.
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