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WABD
WABD (97.5 FM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Mobile, Alabama. The station, established in 1973 as WABB-FM, is owned and operated by Cumulus Media. Its studios are on Dauphin Avenue in Midtown Mobile, and its transmitter is near Spanish Fort, Alabama.
This station began broadcasting a contemporary hit radio music branded as "97-5 WABD" on July 15, 2012. The shift from the previous "K-LOVE" branded Christian radio format was
building's role in the first television broadcasts of Allen B. DuMont experimental television station W2XWV in 1938. The station became commercially licensed as WABD—named for DuMont's initials—in 1944, WNEW-TV in 1958, and is now WNYW. The station was one of the few television channels that continued to broadcast through World War II.
After the war, the network and WABD moved to bigger studios - first at the John Wanamaker's store at Ninth Street and Broadway in Greenwich Village, then the Adelphi Theatre,