area champlain valley branding wbkm slogan burlington s kinda music frequency 107.1 mhz first air date june 2008 format adult album alternative erp 1 000 watts haat 84 meters class a facility id 164251 transmitter coordinates 44 43 15.80 n 73 44 10.50 w 44.7210556 n 73.7362500 w 44.7210556 ; 73.7362500 wbkm callsign meaning burlington s kinda music former callsigns wdyc 2008 welx 2008 2009 wnmr 2009 2016 owner radioactive llc sister stations wiry fm wzxp webcast listen live website wbkm.org wbkm 107.1 fm is a radio station broadcasting an adult album alternative format . licensed to dannemora new york it serves the champlain valley . the station is currently owned by radioactive llc controlled by randy michaels and operated under a local marketing agreement by music guild international a vermont corporation . history edit a construction permit for the station then allocated to saranac lake new york was granted to radioactive on june 6 2005 1 after having won it at auction in november 2004 ; 2 the allocation was later moved to dannemora . 3 initially assigned the call letters wdyc on february 15 2008 4 the station first signed on that june as welx a simulcast of wclx 102.9 fm which at that time had an album oriented rock format . 3 the wnmr call letters were introduced on april 6 2009 ; 4 within a week the wclx simulcast was discontinued 5 and the station temporarily went silent . 6 logo as news talk station 107.1 wnmr used from september 2009 until may 1 2010 . wnmr returned to the air that fall under a local marketing agreement with convergence entertainment and communications 7 with a news talk format . while most programming on wnmr was syndicated including the dan patrick show the michael smerconish show the dave ramsey show some programming from bloomberg radio free talk live the midnight trucking radio network lifestyle talk programming on weekends and some sporting news radio content on sundays 8 a local program corm and the coach aired in morning drive and was co hosted by steve cormier and tom brennan ; it had previously aired on wcpv until 2008 . 9 convergence had planned a television simulcast of the show on wgmu . 10 wnmr also carried hourly newscasts from abc news radio . 11 however the station struggled due to poor advertising revenues leading corm and the coach to go on hiatus after the april 7 2010 broadcast . 12 five days later it was announced that convergence had put wnmr s operations up for sale ; 13 on may 1 the station once again left the air . 14 logo as all sports station 107.1 the game used from june 2010 until march 11 2011 . after convergence formed a new broadcast subsidiary cec media group the station resumed broadcasting in late june with an all sports format ; most programming came from sporting news radio save for a local afternoon show hosted by rich delancey 8 and later mike o meara s one hour talk show . however automation problems forced wnmr off the air once more on march 11 2011 . 15 convergence ended its association with the station in july 2012 ; convergence s owner jeff loper said that the company had issues with finding people to run the thing successfully . 16 wnmr went back on air for a short amount of time when as 107.1 the fixx with an urban contemporary format . due to disagreements with the owner the station went off air ; when the fixx would continue as an internet radio station . while wnmr was off the air wrfk a classic hits station in barre could be heard in the champlain valley . 16 as of august 2014 the station was back on the air and broadcasting polka music ; a teaser ad stated that 107.1 would be the new home for the barrel . 16 wnmr subsequently broadcast a country music format as kickin country 107.1 . the station changed its call sign to the current wbkm on march 15 2016 . 4 the change came after radioactive leased the station to music guild international a vermont corporation ceo tony gallucci who program an adult album alternative format ; they had already operated wbkm as an internet radio station since 2008 . 17 references edit application search details . cdbs public access . federal communications commission . retrieved december 27 2009 . fybush scott november 29 2004 . new sounds for nova scotia and n.b. . northeast radio watch . retrieved december 27 2009 . a b fybush scott june 23 2008 . fire silences wrki . northeast radio watch . retrieved december 27 2009 . a b c call sign history . cdbs public access . federal communications commission . retrieved april 23 2016 . fybush scott april 13 2009 . no tv at 1 world trade center . northeast radio watch . retrieved december 27 2009 . homel benjamin l. may 11 2009 . notification of suspension of operations request for silent sta . cdbs public access . federal communications commission . retrieved december 27 2009 . homel benjamin l. ; loper jeff may 22 2009 . application for consent to assignment of broadcast station construction permit or license for wxmr 100.7 . cdbs public access . federal communications commission . retrieved december 27 2009 . in addition to its interest in the subject application assignee is also the programmer in a local programming and marketing agreement concerning fm station wnmr dannemora ny fac id 164251 . a b fybush scott june 28 2010 . tornado rips wicc webe . northeast radio watch . retrieved june 30 2010 . fybush scott august 31 2009 . waeb tower downed . northeast radio watch . retrieved december 27 2009 . corm and the coach come back . wcax.com . august 25 2009 . retrieved december 27 2009 . wnmr wgmu revised info pdf . starpoint enterprises . archived from the original pdf on december 8 2015 . retrieved december 27 2009 . corm and the coach radio show off the air . the burlington free press . april 10 2010 . retrieved april 10 2010 . dead link sale of vermont radio station might bring back corm and the coach . the burlington free press . april 13 2010 . p. b5 . retrieved april 13 2010 . dead link homel benjamin l. may 17 2010 . notification of suspension of operations . cdbs public access . federal communications commission . retrieved may 19 2010 . homel benjamin l. april 11 2011 . notification of suspension of operations . cdbs public access . federal communications commission . retrieved april 19 2011 . a b c bolles dan september 12 2014 . the case of the phantom polka station . seven days . retrieved april 23 2016 . venta lance march 16 2016 . burlington vt aaa webcaster makes move to fm . radioinsight . retrieved april 23 2016 . external links edit official website query the fcc s fm station database for wbkm radio locator information on wbkm query nielsen audio s fm station database for wbkm v t e radio stations in the burlington vermont plattsburgh new york market by am frequency 550 620 960 1070 1230 1340 1390 by fm frequency 88.1 88.7 89.7 90.1 90.5 90.9 91.1 91.5 91.9 92.1 92.9 93.7 93.9 94.9 95.5 96.7 97.5 97.9 98.9 99.9 100.7 101.3 101.7 102.3 102.9 103.3 103.9 104.3 104.7 105.1 105.9 106.3 106.7 107.1 107.3 107.9 noaa weather radio frequency 162.400 by callsign kig60 w235be wanc wbkm wbtz wcat wcel wclx wcpv wcvt wdev weav wezf wgly fm wify wiry wiry fm wixm wizn wjks wjoy wkol wkvj wmud lp wnbz fm wncs woko womm lp woxr wrmc fm wruv wtnn wtwk wvtk wvmt wvps wvtx wwmp wxlq wxlu wxxx wxzo wzxp defunct stations wips new york radio markets albany schenectady troy binghamton buffalo niagara falls elmira corning hudson valley nassau suffolk long island new york city olean plattsburgh poughkeepsie rochester syracuse utica rome watertown other new york radio regions ithaca jamestown dunkirk north country saratoga vermont radio markets burlington montpelier barre st. johnsbury rutland white river junction other vermont radio regions northeast kingdom see also list of radio stations in new york list of radio stations in vermont montreal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wbkm fm & oldid 739129876 categories radio stations in new yorkradio stations established in 20082008 establishments in new yorkhidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2010vague or ambiguous time from april 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 september 2016 at 23 09 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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