WERC

WERC — branded News Radio 105.5 WERC — is a news/talk radio station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, and serving the Birmingham market as a complete simulcast of sister station WERC-FM. It operates at unlimited hours with 5,000 watts. The station has studios at Beacon Ridge Tower in Birmingham and its transmitter is northwest of downtown. WERC originated the talk format currently heard on WERC-FM from 1982 until 2011, and was the first station in Birmingham to carry an all-talk format. The format - and the WERC calls - migrated to the 105.5 facility in 2010 before both returned to the AM station in July 2011. WERC is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.. Other stations in the Birmingham market owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. include WMJJ, WDXB, WQEN, and WERC-FM. iHeartMedia also programs W276BQ, a translator owned by Red Mountain Broadcasting, LLC. W276BQ rebroadcasts the programming of the HD2 channel of WQEN, branded as "103.1 The Vulcan".