WIBR
former radio station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
WIBR (1300 AM) was an ESPN Radio affiliated sports talk radio station licensed to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The station broadcast with power of 5,000 watts day, 1,000 watts night and was owned by Citadel Broadcasting Corporation. Its studios were located downtown and the transmitter tower was in Port Allen, Louisiana.
History
WIBR signed on the air in 1948 as a locally owned Middle of the Road (MOR)/Full service outlet. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the station was known by its jingles as "WIBR, The Voice of Baton Rouge - We're Playing Your Song". Another jingle stated "The Shack by the Track in Baton Rouge". WIBR will forever be the radio station that connected to the music of the time.
After changing hands and formats in the 1980s and 1990s (including a period broadcasting Sports), the station switched to a news/talk format in 2002.
The talk format ended on November 15, 2005 and was briefly replaced with urban music, until WIBR debuted an African-American oriented "urban talk" format. The station featured a lineup of syndicated talk shows mostly produced by Radio One, including a program hosted by Rev.
The public source identifies “WIBR” as former radio station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around WIBR, former and radio.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7950576. Authority coordinates are 30.474, -91.226. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1300, 1948, 2002 and 2005.
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This entry incorporates text from “WIBR” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.