I will note that the programming on WENN and WBHM-HD3 are not identical. The HD3 doesn't make any mention of the AM and while they use the AI Casey Kasem voice, the HD3 uses other non-Kasem voices as well.
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Birmingham Something afoot at Birmingham's WENN-AM and 92.3 W222BK?
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The online broadcast for WENN/W222BK at BeautifulMusic.us is now exclusively airing liners with WBHM HD3 in them and is no longer mentioning AM 1320 or 92.3 FM. The website now has the words "Alabama's Beautiful" and "WBHM HD3", with all references to WENN-AM and W222BK removed. The audio airing on WBHM HD3 is NOT matching that of the station's website, however.
Both WENN and W222BK appear to be off the air.
Sounds as if WBHM HD3 might carry the beautiful music programming going forward, with WENN and W222BK going in a different direction/format.
Wait...HOLD the PHONE! It gets MORE bizarre, y'all! lol The TOH ID for the station that's airing on BeautifulMusic.us now mentions WIEZ and W234DN, Decatur. Can anyone in/near Decatur confirm the beautiful music programming is airing on WIEZ and W234DN?
Both WENN and W222BK appear to be off the air.
Sounds as if WBHM HD3 might carry the beautiful music programming going forward, with WENN and W222BK going in a different direction/format.
Wait...HOLD the PHONE! It gets MORE bizarre, y'all! lol The TOH ID for the station that's airing on BeautifulMusic.us now mentions WIEZ and W234DN, Decatur. Can anyone in/near Decatur confirm the beautiful music programming is airing on WIEZ and W234DN?
Sounds like they’re bewitched, bothered and bewildered!
Guess the deal's done with Summit. 1320 back to silent-world for a year.
W222BK has returned to the air with recordings on repeat directing listeners to WBHM HD3 and online at BeautifulMusic.us, as well as announcing that something new is coming soon to AM 1320 and FM 92.3.
WENN and W222BK are still running the recordings in a loop instructing listeners to tune into 90.3 HD3 or listen online at BeautifulMusic.us. A few days ago, the audio online finally matched what was airing on WBHM HD3. Today, however, the online broadcast at the WENN website is airing the audio from WENN/W222BK in a loop. So listeners tuned into AM 1320 or FM 92.3 are being told to listen at BeautifulMusic.us, but once the listeners go to the website, they're hearing the same audio they just heard on the AM and FM (is that like being stuck in a loop within a loop?) 
So if WENN/W222BK listeners don't have access to an HD radio (or even know what HD radio is), there's no way for them to listen to the beautiful music programming at this point. There are, nor ever have been TMK, any mobile apps where WENN was listed. The WBHM app also does not mention anything regarding WBHM HD3 (just their main signal and HD2 station), presumably bc WBHM is just airing the programming and not responsible for it (HD3 channel is being leased).
As far as WIEZ, the website at WIEZradio.com is either pointing to or using the same template as the BeautifulMusic.us site with the 90.3 HD3 graphic. The audio that had been airing on WIEZradio.com was that of WBHM HD3, but it, too, is now airing the WENN/W222BK audio loop. It's questionable if WIEZ/W234DN is even airing beautiful music bc someone in a B/EZ group on Yahoo I'm a member of who lives 27 miles from the W234DN transmitter stated that, even though WIEZ and W234DN had been airing beautiful music, the FM translator was airing some music by the Village People a few days ago, lol.
This chaos ranks up there with the "New FunStar 101" twenty years ago. IYKYK
lol
So if WENN/W222BK listeners don't have access to an HD radio (or even know what HD radio is), there's no way for them to listen to the beautiful music programming at this point. There are, nor ever have been TMK, any mobile apps where WENN was listed. The WBHM app also does not mention anything regarding WBHM HD3 (just their main signal and HD2 station), presumably bc WBHM is just airing the programming and not responsible for it (HD3 channel is being leased).As far as WIEZ, the website at WIEZradio.com is either pointing to or using the same template as the BeautifulMusic.us site with the 90.3 HD3 graphic. The audio that had been airing on WIEZradio.com was that of WBHM HD3, but it, too, is now airing the WENN/W222BK audio loop. It's questionable if WIEZ/W234DN is even airing beautiful music bc someone in a B/EZ group on Yahoo I'm a member of who lives 27 miles from the W234DN transmitter stated that, even though WIEZ and W234DN had been airing beautiful music, the FM translator was airing some music by the Village People a few days ago, lol.
This chaos ranks up there with the "New FunStar 101" twenty years ago. IYKYK
lol
There's no chaos. Simply radio in 2025 with a handful of people doing what larger teams used to.
The WIEZ domain was from before the station was leased then kept as a webcaster and is now redirecting to the Beautiful one. I built both sites as simple placeholders for the owner (And they're hosted on the same server as this site!). Things are in motion and when I get instructed to update the stream link it will be done.
Did anyone listen to 1320 and 92.3 this afternoon? More chaos! What the hell is happening?!?
"More chaos" doesn't tell us anything. Why don't you say exactly what you heard?
Stunting it seems. Lot of different music genres being played, interspersed with more messages about something new coming to 1320 and 92.3.
Caught 92.3 in Saginaw. Funny RDS.
That is VERY clever use of the RDS while stunting.
Assuming that was also on 1320. Could'nt pick it up where I was