Birach Broadcasting Corporation

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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. [1] Many stations in the Birach portfolio run ethnic broadcasting. The company was wholly owned by its president and CEO Sima Birach, who died October 14, 2025. [2]

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Stations owned

Radio stations

CallsignFrequencyBandCityStateFormat
WWCS 540AM Canonsburg PA Brokered (Overcomer Ministry)
WGOP 540AM Pocomoke City MD Silent [a]
WMFN 640AM Peotone IL Black Information Network [b]
WNZK [c] 690AM Dearborn Heights MI Ethnic, talk
680AM
WDMV 700AM Walkersville MD Spanish
WEW 770AM St. Louis MO Brokered (Overcomer Ministry)
WTOR 770AM Youngstown NY Ethnic [d]
WIJR 880AM Highland IL Regional Mexican
WNWI 1080AM Oak Lawn IL Ethnic
WCAR 1090AM Livonia MI Regional Mexican
WCXI 1160AM Fenton MI Brokered (Overcomer Ministry)
WCXN 1170AM Claremont NC Brokered (Overcomer Ministry)
KJMU 1340AM Sand Springs OK Spanish
KOLE 1340AM Port Arthur TX Brokered (Overcomer Ministry)
WBRD 1420AM Palmetto FL Brokered (Overcomer Ministry)
WBVA 1450AM Bayside VA Defunct, license deleted by FCC
WPON 1460AM Walled Lake MI Oldies
KXLQ 1490AM Indianola IA Regional Mexican
WVAB 1550AM Virginia Beach VA Defunct, license deleted by FCC
  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 690kHz during the daytime and on 680kHz during the nighttime; it is the only mediumwave radio station in North America licensed to operate on two different frequencies with the same license, a privilege otherwise only granted to shortwave stations.
  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

StationChannelCommunity of licenseNetworkNotes
KIJR-LP 47 Lucerne Valley, California Defunct; license cancelled July 8, 2022

References

  1. ↑ "Birach Broadcasting Corp - Company Profile and News". Bloomberg . Retrieved February 24, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Sima Birach, Sr". Insideradio.com. October 28, 2025. Retrieved October 28, 2025.
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