Broadcast area | Grand Rapids metropolitan area |
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Frequency | 1530 kHz |
Branding | Jethro FM |
Programming | |
Format | Classic country |
Ownership | |
Owner | WYGR, LLC |
History | |
First air date | 1964 (as WERX) |
Former call signs | WYGR (12/19/86-Present) WTKG (10/1/84-12/19/86) WYGR (3/11/1968-10/1/84) WERX (7/1/1963-3/11/1968) WYOQ (CP)(9/27/1962-7/1/1963) |
Call sign meaning | WYoming-Grand Rapids |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 74248 |
Class | D |
Power | 500 watts (Daytime) 250 watts (Critical Hours) |
Translator(s) | 94.9 W235BN (Grand Rapids) 99.5 W258DF (Lowell) |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | jethro.fm |
WYGR (1530 AM, "Jethro FM") is a radio station broadcasting a classic country format, licensed to Wyoming, Michigan and serving the Grand Rapids area. The station operates with 500 watts during the day and 250 watts critical hours, but must sign off at night to protect 1530 WCKY in Cincinnati. WYGR programming is simulcast on FM translator W235BN at 94.9 FM, which can be heard in the immediate Grand Rapids area as far north as Cedar Springs and Allendale but gives way to co-channel WMMQ out of East Lansing east of Grand Rapids and fellow co-channel WKZC north and west of the Grand Rapids area. A second FM translator W258DF in Lowell was added in February 2019.