WIL-FM
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| City of license | St. Louis, Missouri |
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| Broadcast area | Greater St. Louis |
| Branding | New Country |
| Slogan | "#1 for Today's Country Music" |
| Frequency |
92.3 MHz FM (HD Radio) 92.3-2 FM "New Country" |
| Format | Country |
| ERP | 99,000 watts |
| HAAT | 300 meters |
| Class | C0 |
| Facility ID | 72390 |
| Callsign meaning | Watch It Lead |
| Owner | Hubbard Broadcasting |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | http://www.wil92.com |
WIL-FM (92.3 FM) is a 99 kilowatt radio station in St. Louis, Missouri. The station serves the St. Louis metropolitan area. Hubbard Broadcasting is the station licensee, authorized by the Federal Communications Commission.[1] Its transmitter is located in St. Louis. WIL-FM was heard in Salt Lake City, Utah via a radio phenomenon known as sporadic E-skip. The E-skip event occurred June 16, 2009 and a station ID was recorded. Salt Lake City is roughly 1,155 miles (1,859 km) from St. Louis, Missouri.[2]
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[edit] Format
WIL-FM plays a variety of country music in St. Louis.[3] WIL-FM personalities include Cornbread and Pat James, Bo Matthews, and Derrick Keith. It is the top rated Country station in St. Louis and was nominated for a CMA Award in the Fall of 2006. WIL-FM is programmed by Greg Mozingo. Danny Montana is the Music Director.
[edit] History
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WIL radio was incarnated on January 31, 1925 at 1430 on the AM dial, during radio's infancy. Radio was starting to become more common, as the St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis University, Stix, Baer & Fuller and Concordia Seminary all owned radio stations in the city.
The St. Louis Star, which is no longer in print, wanted to own a radio station. They struck some kind of deal with WIL's original owner, Benson Broadcasting. While no details of the agreement have been found to date, copies of the Star from that time period refer to WIL as "The St. Louis Star Station." Its center of operations was the Star Building at 12th and Locust. The call letters had just been changed from the original WEB, and the owners, the Benson family, used their relationship with the Star to gain a lot of promotional print.
In the early-1970s, WIL-FM first went on the air, and by the middle of the decade, country music was being heard on that station.
Bonneville International announced the sale of WIL-FM, as well as 16 other stations, to Hubbard Broadcasting on January 19, 2011.[4] The sale was completed on April 29, 2011.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ "WIL-FM Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WIL-FM. Retrieved 2009-12-22.
- ^ SLC Tropo/Eskip/Etc. Logs - Ubstudios DXers
- ^ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Summer 2009. http://www1.arbitron.com/sip/sip.do#access. Retrieved 2009-12-22.
- ^ "$505M sale: Bonneville sells Chicago, D.C., St. Louis and Cincinnati to Hubbard". Radio-Info.com. January 19, 2011. http://www.radio-info.com/news/505m-sale-bonneville-sells-chicago-dc-st-louis-and-cincinnati-to-hubbard. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
- ^ "Hubbard deal to purchase Bonneville stations closes". Radio Ink. May 2, 2011. http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2174844&spid=24698. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
[edit] External links
- WIL official website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WIL
- Radio-Locator information on WIL
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WIL
- STLRadio.com - Historic information about St. Louis radio broadcasting
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