WBHK

WBHK

Warrior, Alabama
Broadcast area	Birmingham, Alabama
Frequency	98.7 MHz
Branding	98.7 Kiss FM
Programming
Format	Urban adult contemporary
Ownership
Owner	SummitMedia (SM-WBHK, LLC)
Sister stations	WAGG, WBHJ, WBPT, WENN, WPYA, WZZK-FM
History
First air date	1991 (33 years ago) (1991) (as WLBI)
Former call signs	WLBI (1991–1996)[1]
Call sign meaning	BirmingHam's Kiss[2]
Technical information[3]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	65227
Class	C1
ERP	39,000 watts
HAAT	408 meters
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen live
Website	987kiss.com

WBHK (98.7 FM) is an urban adult contemporary music formatted radio station owned by SummitMedia, LLC that serves Birmingham, Alabama. It is currently ranked by the Arbitron rating system as the nation's highest rated urban adult contemporary station. 98.7 Kiss FM is licensed to Warrior and broadcasts on the 98.7 Megahertz (MHz) frequency at effective radiated power of 39 kilowatts (kW) from atop Red Mountain. It is owned by SummitMedia along with six other stations, and all share studios in the Cahaba neighborhood in far southeast Birmingham.^[4]

The station has an unusually strong signal that broadcasts on a class C1 that can be heard across the majority of North and Central Alabama and even in parts of eastern Mississippi and western Georgia. WBHK is sometimes mistaken for or confused with the former New York City urban AC with the same moniker, WRKS-FM, 98.7 Kiss FM (now WEPN-FM with an ESPN sports format). The similar musical format and dial position of both stations have allowed them to share on-air liners and even TV commercials—but neither station shares the same corporate ownership. In 2005, WBHK began broadcasting in IBOC digital radio, using the HD Radio system from iBiquity.