WFER

WFER
City of license	Iron River, Michigan
Broadcast area
Branding	Solid Gold
Frequency	1230 kHz
First air date	November 15, 1949 (as WIKB)
Format	Classic hits
Power	1,000 watts
Class	C
Facility ID	49684
Callsign meaning	iron
Former callsigns	WIKB (1949-2010)
Owner	Stephen Marks (Iron River Community Broadcasting Corporation)
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	wferam.com

WFER (1230 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock 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.

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.

References

Michiguide.com - WIKB History

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WFER

Radio-Locator Information on WFER

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WFER

Radio stations in the Iron Mountain, Michigan area

By FM frequency	90.7 91.5 93.1 94.3 95.3 96.7 98.1 99.1 100.7 101.5 106.7

By AM frequency	1230 1450

By callsign	W237AW WEUL WFER WHTO WIKB-FM WIMK WJNR-FM WMIQ WMVM WOBE WVCM WZNL

Nearby radio markets Houghton Marquette Door County Green Bay Wausau–Stevens Point See also List of radio stations in Michigan

Classic hits radio stations in Michigan

By frequency	92.5 92.7 92.9 93.5 94.3 96.7 97.3 97.7 98.3 98.5 98.7 100.3 101.5 102.1 104.3 106.3 107.3 107.5 107.9

By callsign	WCCW-FM WCZW WFCX WFDX WFGR WHMI-FM WLCS WLEW-FM WLMI WMJO WMJT WMJZ WMXG WOLV WOMC WUPF WUPS WUPT WYVN

By city	Atlanta Bad Axe Charlevoix Detroit Escanaba Gaylord Grand Ledge Grand Rapids Gwinn Harrison Houghton Howell Leland Manistee Newberry North Muskegon Saugatuck Saginaw/Essexville Stephenson Three Rivers Traverse City

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

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

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