WGRM (1240 AM) was an American radio station licensed to serve Greenwood, Mississippi, United States.

[1] In the 1940s, the station aired live gospel performances by the Famous St. John's Quartet of Inverness, Mississippi, whose young guitarist would later find fame as B.B.

[2] The station, broadcasting at 1240 kilohertz with 250 watts of power, was assigned the call sign "WGRM" by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

[3] In 1939, the station relocated to the second floor of a building at 222 Howard Street in Greenwood, Mississippi, where it would remain for a decade.

[5] The next year, with the sale of the Blue Network, WGRM switched affiliations to remain with NBC and Shelton Morgan became the program director.

[7] In the early twentieth century, the voices of African Americans were rarely heard on the radio in the Southern United States.

[8] In the 1940s, WGRM aired live performances by gospel groups on Sunday afternoons, including the Famous St. John's Quartet of Inverness, Mississippi.

[9] Some sources place the first appearance of the quartet on WGRM in 1940[10][11] and some in 1943,[2][9] but all agree that the group featured young Riley King on guitar in his broadcast debut.

[8] After several years, Riley King moved to Memphis where he took on the nickname "Beale Street Blues Boy" which was in turn shortened to B.B.

[19] In 1979, the music shifted back to just middle of the road, retaining the classic and farm specialty programs, and Thomas E. Ewing took on new responsibilities as president of the corporation.

The FCC accepted this application on December 1, 1988, approved the transfer on January 13, 1989, and the transaction was formally consummated on February 20, 1989.

[35] In December 1998, after six decades of Ewing-family ownership, Clay Ewing and Twelve-Forty, Inc., reached an agreement to sell WGRM and sister station WGRM-FM to Willis Broadcasting Corporation, based in Norfolk, Virginia.

[36] When Willis Broadcasting Corporation acquired WGRM and WGRM-FM, it owned only one other radio station: WIZK in Bay Springs, Mississippi.

[37] Although it would later sell WIZK, by mid-2005 the company held the broadcast licenses for eight radio stations across Louisiana and Mississippi.

[44] In December 2007, WGRM was announced as one of five nominees in the "Radio Station of the Year, Small Markets" category for the 2008 Stellar Gospel Music Awards.