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WBEK

WBEZ public radio station in Kankakee, Illinois
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WBEK

Summary

WBEK is a radio station[1]. WBEK ranks in the top 2% of radio_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • WBEK is located in Kankakee[3].
  • WBEK is in the country of United States[4].
  • WBEK's instance of is recorded as radio station[5].
  • WBEK's owned by is recorded as Chicago Public Media[6].
  • +1992-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of WBEK[7].
  • WBEK's coordinate location is recorded as {'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'altitude': None, 'latitude': 41.1608, 'longitude': -87.875, 'precision': 0.011931950900877}[8].
  • WBEK's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0nbv4jm[9].
  • WBEK's official website is recorded as http://www.wbez.org/[10].
  • WBEK's FCC Facility ID is recorded as 33327[11].
  • WBEK's licensed to broadcast to is recorded as Kankakee[12].

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Founding

+1992-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of WBEK[7].

Ownership

WBEK's owned by is recorded as Chicago Public Media[6].

Why It Matters

WBEK ranks in the top 2% of radio_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4 views/month).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). WBEK. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/wbek
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_wbek_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{WBEK}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/wbek}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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