WIL-FM
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WIL-FM (92.3 MHz) is a commercial radio station in St. Louis, Missouri. It airs a country music format and is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting.[1] The studios are on Olive Boulevard, near Interstate 270 in Creve Coeur (with a St. Louis address).
WIL-FM is a Class C station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for most stations.[2] The transmitter is on Butler Hill Road near Keller Road in St. Louis, amid the towers for other local FM and TV stations.[3] WIL-FM uses HD Radio technology. Its HD2 subchannel plays Americana music, known as "Second Fiddle." The HD3 subchannel plays oldies and feeds FM translator W232CR at 94.3 MHz.
Format
WIL-FM plays a variety of country music, concentrating on the hits from the current charts and the last 25 years.[4] WIL-FM personalities include Kasey and Marty Brooks. WIL-FM is programmed by Tommy Mattern and the music director is Marty Brooks. WIL-FM primarily competes with iHeartMedia's KSD-FM for country listeners in St. Louis.
History
WIL-FM signed on the air on July 15, 1962Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., as the FM sister station to WIL (1430 AM).[5] In its first decade, it mostly simulcast the AM station, which aired a Top 40 format, and were owned by WIL, Inc., a subsidiary of Balaban Stations. At the time, their studios were in Broadcasting House in St. Louis. WIL-FM was only powered at 30,000 watts, a fraction of its current output.
WIL-FM took the call sign KFMS on March 30, 1973. After a year, it returned to WIL-FM, effective September 1, 1974.[6] In the 1970s, WIL had switched to a personality country format, while the FM aired a more music-intensive country format, with less chatter and fewer commercials.[7]
Over time, as more people tuned to the FM band for music listening, WIL-FM became the dominant station. Eventually, the AM station changed its call letters to KZQZ and is now dark. WIL-FM was later acquired by Salt Lake City-based Bonneville International.
Bonneville announced its sale of WIL-FM (and 16 other stations) to Hubbard Broadcasting on January 19, 2011.[8] The sale was completed on April 29, 2011.[9]
On January 30, 2017, WIL-FM re-branded as "New Country 92.3".[10] On October 6, 2020, the station dropped the "New Country 92.3" branding and returned to using its call letters in its branding as "92.3 WIL".[11]
HD Radio
Starting in 2012, WIL-FM's HD2 digital subchannel began airing Americana music, calling itself "Second Fiddle". Previously, WIL-FM-HD2 was branded as "Kerosene Country", and largely had the same playlist as WIL-FM.
On February 18, 2020, WIL-FM signed on a third subchannel, and began airing an oldies format, branded as "My Mix 94.3." The subchannel feeds FM translator W232CR at 94.3 MHz in Alton, Illinois.[12]
See also
References
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- ↑ FCC.gov/WIL-FM
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- ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1965 page B-91. Retrieved June 2, 2024.
- ↑ FCC’s history cards for WIL-FM; retrieved April 28, 2021.
- ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-124. Retrieved June 2, 2024.
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- ↑ WIL Rebrands as New Country 92.3 Radioinsight - January 30, 2017
- ↑ WIL Rebrands Back To Its Call Letters Radioinsight - October 6, 2020
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External links
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- WIL Radio Collection finding aid at the St. Louis Public Library
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- Template:Show by date&band=fm&callLetter=WIL-FM WIL-FM in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
- STLRadio.com - Historic information about St. Louis radio broadcasting
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- W232CR at FCCdata.org
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