WFMH-FM (95.5 FM, "Big 95.5") is a

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licensed to serve

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, United States. The station is owned by TNT, Inc. It airs a

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format and features programming from The Paul Finebaum Radio Network.

History

The WFMH-FM call letters were originally used by 101.1 FM in

Cullman, Alabama Cullman is the largest city and county seat of Cullman County, Alabama, United States. It is located along Interstate 65, about north of Birmingham and about south of Huntsville. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 14,775, with an ...

when it first went on the air in March 1950. This station is now

WXJC-FM WXJC-FM (101.1 MHz, "The Truth") is a commercial Christian FM radio station licensed to Cullman, Alabama, serving the Birmingham metropolitan area and nearly all of north-central Alabama. The station is owned by Crawford Broadcasting Company, ...

101.1, the call letters having been changed by former owner Eddins Broadcasting Co. The call letters WFMH-FM were assigned to the current 95.5 FM in 1998. This station was granted its original

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by the

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on December 12, 1993. The new station was assigned call letters WCOC on May 20, 1994. The call letters were changed to WXXR-FM on August 9, 1996. After one extension, WXXR-FM received its license to cover from the FCC on September 3, 1996. The station was assigned the current WFMH-FM call letters by the FCC on November 22,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

. In May 2004, Voice of Cullman LLC (Clark P. Jones, member/manager) agreed to transfer the license for WFMH-FM and then-

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WFMH (AM) WFMH (1340 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Cullman, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Jimmy Dale Media. It airs a sports format. The station was assigned the WFMH call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on S ...

to Williams Communications (Walton E. Williams Jr., president/director). The two stations sold for a reported total of $2.45 million. In August 2004, the station received authorization to change its

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from

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, to Hackleburg, Alabama. At the time of the move, the station was a longtime affiliate of ABC Radio Networks "Real Country" Satellite format. The move began in June 2005, completed the move in August 2005, and the station received its latest license to cover in November 2005.

The future

On December 21, 2009, WFMH-FM was sold to TNT, Inc. for a reported sale of $150,000.

References

External links

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