WBHM 90.3 FM is the NPR member station for Birmingham and central Alabama, a listener-supported public radio service of the University of Alabama at Birmingham on the air since 1976.
WBHM 90.3 FM is a noncommercial public radio station in Birmingham, Alabama, and the NPR member station for the Birmingham metropolitan area and central Alabama. It is a listener-supported service of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), licensed to UAB and governed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama. The station signed on December 5, 1976, as the first full-service public radio station in north central Alabama and the second NPR member station in the state.
WBHM carries news and talk programming from NPR, American Public Media and PRX, with local news in Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and classical music in the evening and overnight hours. Its transmitter sits in Vulcan Park, and the station broadcasts in HD Radio, with 106.1 The Hub, an arts, culture and community service, on its HD2 channel and FM translator W291DC. In 2020 WBHM led the creation of the Gulf States Newsroom, a regional news collaboration with Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WWNO in New Orleans and WRKF in Baton Rouge.
A small staff runs the station's news, business and fundraising operations. WBHM hires for news, programming, engineering, marketing, business and fundraising roles, and runs the paid Reflect Alabama Fellowship for students, adult learners and community members. Station staff are UAB employees, and applications for staff openings are submitted through UAB's careers site.
