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| City | Birmingham, Alabama |
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| Broadcast area | Birmingham area |
| Branding | WBHM |
| Slogan | Listen Deeper |
| Frequency | 90.3 MHz |
| Translator(s) | 106.1 W291DC (Birmingham) |
| Repeater(s) | 91.5 WSGN (Gadsden) |
| First air date | December 5, 1976 |
| Format | Public radio; News Talk Information |
| ERP | 32,000 watts |
| HAAT | 370 meters |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 4240 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°29′19.00″N 86°47′58.00″W / 33.4886111°N 86.7994444°W |
| Callsign meaning | W BirmingHaM |
| Affiliations | American Public Media, National Public Radio, Public Radio International |
| Owner |
University of Alabama at Birmingham (Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wbhm.org |
WBHM (90.3 and 106.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format during the daytime and mostly classical music overnight. Licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, USA, the station serves the Birmingham area and through repeater WSGN also serves the Gadsden area. The station is licensed to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where it maintains its studios. WBHM features programing from American Public Media, National Public Radio and Public Radio International.
On a sub-carrier channel, WBHM operates the Alabama Radio Reading Service, which broadcasts readings from the Birmingham News and popular magazines for blind and visually impaired residents of the Birmingham area. The other public radio stations in Alabama also offer the service, provided through a grant by the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services.
Even though Huntsville beat Birmingham, the state's largest city (in population), in getting Alabama's first public radio station in October 1976 (the present WLRH), WBHM did not follow far behind, beginning operations on December 5. WBHM became Birmingham's first full-time classical station since the demise of a commercial FM outlet, WSFM, which gave way to the present WDJC-FM in 1967.
WBHM no longer has local hosts for classical music; for most of the 2000s, it exclusively relied on the Classical Public Radio Network (a joint production of KUSC-FM in Los Angeles and Colorado Public Radio) to provide programming in the middle of the day, evenings, and overnight.
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