City Elm Grove, Wisconsin Branding "1560 WGLB" Format Gospel music | Broadcast area Milwaukee, Wisconsin Frequency 1560 AM kHz | |
First air date December 6, 1963 (1963-12-06) | ||
WGLB (1560 AM) is a gospel music radio station licensed to Elm Grove, Wisconsin and serving the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The station is owned by Joel Kinlow, who used to own television station WJJA in Racine and FM radio station WGLB-FM in Port Washington, Wisconsin. It has been granted a FCC construction permit to increase day power to 2,500 watts and add critical hours service with 700 watts.
Licensed to Port Washington, Wisconsin, WGLB signed on the air in 1963, broadcasting with 250 watts daytime only. An FM sister station, WGLB-FM, was launched in 1969. In 2003, the FM station was sold to Starboard Broadcasting and switched its format to religious programming.
In August 2001, WGLB's city of license was changed to the Milwaukee suburb of Elm Grove, and the current transmitter site went into operation. The station also obtained authorization to begin nighttime broadcasting.