B97.5 WBBA Radio

B97.5 WBBA Radio WBBA-FM is Regional Radio Serving The Bi-State for Over 70 Years! We Play Today's Best Mix of Hits and Local News, Sports, Weather, Ag Reports, and More!

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07/06/2025

Did you know that although we will always be Pittsfield and Pike County's Radio Station you can take us along when you head to the city or out of town? Listen to us in Hannibal and Quincy and along Hwy 61 all the way to Wentzville, MO and well up into Cass and Schuyler County, IL and over towards the Mark Twain Lake area. We took a drive of the northern part of our signal for the first time yesterday around Beardstown, Rushville, and Mount Sterling and the Cards game was booming in. Take us with you wherever you go!

Let Freedom Ring! Happy Independence Day from B97.5 WBBA Radio!
07/03/2025

Let Freedom Ring! Happy Independence Day from B97.5 WBBA Radio!

I'm on vacation this week... Rebuilding WBBA has been a lot of work!  News will resume after the Independence Day Weeken...
06/30/2025

I'm on vacation this week... Rebuilding WBBA has been a lot of work! News will resume after the Independence Day Weekend. If there is breaking news, I'll report if necessary. The joy of modern technology is I can be out fishing with my niece and be able to do really anything I need to do in the function of the radio station if need be. A full week of St. Louis Cardinals baseball...

This afternoon at 4:45 its the pregame and 5:40 first pitch, the Cards take on Pittsburgh, and again Tuesday, at the same time, Wednesday pregame starts at 10L40AM with first pitch at 11:35... Then its a weekend series at the Cards take on the Cubs, Friday the 4th of July, Saturday and Sunday each day with pregame at 12:25PM and first pitch at 1:20PM.

Join John Rooney and Rick Horton live with all the action right here on B97.5 WBBA Radio! Happy 4th of July!

Shouting out to our friends in Mount Sterling and the rest of Brown County... We are proud to cover Brown County News an...
06/26/2025

Shouting out to our friends in Mount Sterling and the rest of Brown County... We are proud to cover Brown County News and Obits on our station... Our daily news and chapel report with obitauaries are focused on the Twin Pikes, but also on Brown, Greene, Scott, and Eastern Morgan County, IL as well as Eastern Ralls County including New London, and Northern Lincoln County in MO including the Silex and Elsberry areas, You won't hear a lot of news from Hannibal, Quincy, and St. Louis unless it is of significance to our region or is major statewide news. We want our news to be about the communities we serve.... Call or Text 217-461-4970 when you see local news happen! Send your local events and press releases to me at [email protected]!

We'd like to point out to you these excellent businesses in the area who are supporting us here on WBBA!  Smoke Signals ...
06/26/2025

We'd like to point out to you these excellent businesses in the area who are supporting us here on WBBA! Smoke Signals V**e Shop, Pike County Collectibles, Flowers and More, and Beard Implement Company. If you would like to add your business to this growing list of some of the best companies in our area, give me a call at 217-461-4970, or drop us a private message. We are here to serve you in our local business community. With top notch programming including the St Louis Cardinals, The TJ Show, local news, sports, weather, agricultural reports, obituaries, and other local information along with a professionally presented music format featuring the very best music of the 1990s to today specifically targeted to the adults who are 25 to 54 years old, with a little bit of a lean towards a female listener, but we don't want to run the guys off either. Overall are music appeals to the people who have been proven by research to be the biggest consumers and spenders of money, women over 25 up to age 54. Also like another station in the area, you will never hear your spot buried between 5 minutes or more of commercials, and you also have the expertise of our owner Jim Fishback being one of the best production voices and talents available in the industry Nationwide. His credits include even doing commercials for well-known national brands, and doing national television programming. We want your product or business to sound every bit is legitimate as the big guys do in the big cities. We don't cut any corners on what we do because our area is small in population and rural. We believe people in our area deserve radio that is every bit as good as radio in St Louis, Quincy, Springfield, or wherever. But we understand because we are the only station licensed to our County we have a unique responsibility to serve our community with a wide variety of different programming. Be a part of full service radio in the Twin Pikes and West Central Illinois!

More St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs action tomorrow night.  Pregame starts tonight at 5:50 on B97.5!
06/24/2025

More St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs action tomorrow night. Pregame starts tonight at 5:50 on B97.5!

Legacy... We like to say a little more than some other stations on our chapel report with obits every day.  Overall, we ...
06/23/2025

Legacy... We like to say a little more than some other stations on our chapel report with obits every day. Overall, we try our best to show our respect for your loved ones and friends who have passed. We think its important to let people know the impact these people left on their community. Perhaps you may not remember the person's full name, but when you hear what church they went to, their career, and where they attended school if we know about it. We want to share the legacy there people left behind with the local community. We want to do more than give you the basic service details. Listen to the chapel report on B97.5 every day at 6,7,8, Noon, and 5PM. If you have a local business that serves the bereaved, its an excellent opportunity to have a lot of ears in the Twin Pikes and surrounding counties. Generally our chapel report constitutes obituaries from both sides of the river as well as in Scott and Greene County.

06/21/2025

WBBA has been around a long, long time. We'll celebrate 71 years in December. Our history is important to us! I am looking for old photographs from the station over the years, particularly of the old building south of town when the station was still operating thee in the 50s-80s, and any other studio pics and pics of the folks who have made this station go for 70 years, There is a long list of broadcasters over the years who have been a part of our station and we'd love to know who as many of them were as possible. As a young kid when I first got started in the radio business in the middle 90s, I met a man named Russ Knepfler who had worked at WBBA in the 1970s who told me quite a few stories of the station and working for Mr. Meyer who owned the station a good many years. As we have told the people of our acquisition of the station about half a dozen people I knew let me know they had worked there in some point and time from the 70s to the 90s when the station was owned by Gary Brown, a well known DJ on St. Louis radio. To know where you are going - you need to know and respect where you came from. Our station has had a very long and very colorful to say the least history, The station was put on the air by a preacher who defaulted on the note, and it ended up in the hands of Mr. Meyer via the bank. It changed hands a few times in the 80s. No matter who has owned the station, the commitment to serving Pittsfield, the Twin Pikes and the surrounding area has always been there!

06/20/2025

Attention Local Businesses!!!
Here's your chance to show off your best Saukee Spirit with a fun Saukee Spirit Showcase!! Cheerleaders will be around town this week, dropping off flyers, but it is hard to get to every single business! Good news - you can register NOW! We appreciate all the businesses in our hometown and want to connect more with our great community!

You get to decorate your storefront by August 15th and be entered to win the 2025 Saukee Spirit Showcase! The winner will be announced at the Sports Drink Scrimmage on August 22nd! See other details in the flyer!! We hope to make this an annual tradition to help kick off our football seasons going forward!

There is no charge to participate, but registrations will be due by July 1st!
Here's the link to go ahead and get registered: https://forms.gle/RSbirGBUHNwawXTq9

Best of luck, and as always... GO SAUKEES!

A full day of St. Louis Cardinals baseball kicks off on B97.5 as the Cards take on the Chicago White Sox in interleague ...
06/19/2025

A full day of St. Louis Cardinals baseball kicks off on B97.5 as the Cards take on the Chicago White Sox in interleague play. Its a doubleheader; pregame starts at 12:15; first pitch at 1:10 for game one, and the second game will start roughly 45 minutes after the first game. Here all the action today on your Bi-State Voice of the Cardinals - B97.5!

We are hearing that there was a tornado reported between Louisiana and Pittsfield somewhere near Atlas sometime around 1...
06/18/2025

We are hearing that there was a tornado reported between Louisiana and Pittsfield somewhere near Atlas sometime around 11:30 if you have any reports of damage or any other information please give us a call 217-461-4970.

Every day, here at WBBA News, we strive to give you the REAL NEWS every day.  Its not just fluff and community interest ...
06/17/2025

Every day, here at WBBA News, we strive to give you the REAL NEWS every day. Its not just fluff and community interest pieces its the real news that effects Pike County and the counties that surround it. When you see news happening in the Bi-State, call the B line at 217-461-4970. Yes we play great music, yes we have the Cards and Illini, but more important than that is being the station to go to when you need to know in the Bi-State. From Hannibal to Jacksonville, from Quincy to Jerseyville - we are here to be your station of record with fresh news every day Monday-Friday. You don't have to watch the TV news and hear stories about far off places in Iowa or way up north that aren't relevant to you. I try to keep very little fluff in our news and keep it to the news that matte4rs most to the people in our listening area! And we are only doing more to expand that news presence as time goes on....

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