WIKB AM 1230 Iron River 
Slogan/Positioner: Memories WIKB 1230 AM
Format: Adult Standards
Web site: www.wikbam.com
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Class: C
Power / # of Towers: 1,000 watts / 1 / omnidirectional
Unlimited operations
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Call Sign History: WIKB
Call Sign Origin: Iron Mountain Kingsford Brietung Twp.
On Air Date: November 15, 1949
Owner: Heartland Communications
Telephone: (906) 265-5104
Notes/History:
- 5/2006: Reported that WIKB AM has stopped its longtime simulcast of WIKB-FM and AM 1230 has taken on an adult standards format.
- 12/2005: Format change from "Solid Gold" Oldies to Adult Contemporary as "The Breeze"
- 5/2004: FCC approves sale
- 2004: Station is sold, along with WIKB-FM 99.1, for $1.25 million by Northland Advertising to Heartland Communications. Gene Halker, the owner of Northland, will end 50 years of radio ownership once the deal is approved by the FCC and then closed.
- Fall 1981: WIKB-FM begins operations
- 1/1965: Heartland Advertising purchases WIKB
- 11/15/1949: WIKB first signs on and is licensed to Iron Mountain. The station is owned by a group of local businessmen.
Center of antenna array/transmitter location:
Iron County
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