WCHB

WCHB (1340 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Royal Oak, Michigan, and serving the Detroit metropolitan area.

[10] The station carved out a niche with a local, block-programmed schedule, including country music aimed at men who migrated from the Southern United States who went to work in Detroit's automobile assembly plants.

A 1966 Billboard magazine poll showed WEXL as the most influential country station in the southeastern Michigan area by far.

However, the station got competition in late 1969 when WJBK 1500 (now WLQV) flipped from Top 40 to a Modern Country sound as WDEE.

Current owner Crawford Broadcasting acquired WEXL in 1997 and changed the station's format from a combination of Christian preaching and motivational talk to Urban Gospel.

In 2016, WEXL added an FM translator, fed by sister station WMUZ's HD Radio digital subchannel.

The signal is highly directional to the north, to protect the more powerful CHYR-FM in Leamington, Ontario, and WNUC-LP to the east, both of which are also on 96.7 MHz.