WGLB
signed on the air on December 6, 1953. Its original
city of license was
Port Washington, Wisconsin. It broadcast with 250 watts, as a
daytime only station. In 1969, a
sister station, WGLB-FM, was launched on 100.1 MHz (now
WSJP-FM). At first, they mostly
simulcast their programming. In 1995, WGLB was purchased by Joel Kinlow, a Milwaukee area minister, out of bankruptcy for $311,900. Kinlow split the simulcast in 1996, replacing their
soft adult contemporary and
jazz programming with
black gospel on AM 1560 and
1970s oldies on WGLB-FM. In 2003, the FM station was sold to
Starboard Broadcasting, which flipped it to
Catholic religious programming. Kinlow also once owned television station
WJJA (channel 49) in
Racine, which aired programming from the
Home Shopping Network (HSN). 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. On April 20, 2015, WGLB was granted a
Federal Communications Commission construction permit to increase day power to 2,500 watts and add
critical hours service with 700 watts. Kinlow died on June 7, 2016, but his children continue to own and operate WGLB. ==Translator==