Birach Broadcasting Corporation

Birach Broadcasting Corporation is a company based in Southfield, Michigan, USA, that owns several AM radio stations and, formerly, one low-power television (LPTV) station in the US. Many stations in the Birach portfolio run ethnic broadcasting. The company is wholly owned by its president and CEO Sima Birach.

Stations owned

Radio stations
Callsign Frequency Band City State Format
KJMU 1340AMSand SpringsOKSpanish
KOLE 1340AMPort ArthurTXBrokered (Overcomer Ministry)
KXLQ 1490AMIndianolaIARegional Mexican
WBRD 1420AMPalmettoFLBrokered (Overcomer Ministry)
WBVA 1450AMBaysideVADefunct, license deleted by FCC
WCAR 1090AMLivoniaMIRegional Mexican
WCXI 1160AMFentonMIBrokered (Overcomer Ministry)
WCXN 1170AMClaremontNCBrokered (Overcomer Ministry)
WDMV 700AMWalkersvilleMDSpanish
WEW 770AMSt. LouisMOBrokered (Overcomer Ministry)
WGOP 540AMPocomoke CityMDSilent[lower-alpha 1]
WIJR 880AMHighlandILRegional Mexican
WMFN 640AMPeotoneILBlack Information Network[lower-alpha 2]
WNWI 1080AMOak LawnILEthnic
WNZK[lower-alpha 3] 690AM Dearborn Heights MI Ethnic, talk
680AM
WPON 1460AMWalled LakeMIOldies
WTOR 770AMYoungstownNYEthnic[lower-alpha 4]
WVAB 1550AMVirginia BeachVADefunct, license deleted by FCC
WWCS 540AMCanonsburgPABrokered (Overcomer Ministry)
  1. Operated by Bay Broadcasting Inc. (Michael Powell) under an LMA. Currently silent after the station's facilities were destroyed in a 2022 fire.
  2. Operated by iHeartMedia under a local marketing agreement.
  3. WNZK broadcasts on 690 kHz during the daytime and on 680 kHz during the nighttime; it is the only radio station in North America licensed to operate on two different frequencies.
  4. Operated by Radio Saaz-o-Awaz in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, under a local marketing agreement. Birach holds the WTOR license due to regulations forbidding foreign ownership of stations.

Television station
Station Channel Community of license Network Notes
KIJR-LP 47Lucerne Valley, California Defunct; license cancelled July 8, 2022
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