City | Charleston, South Carolina |
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Broadcast area | South Carolina Lowcountry |
Branding | HIS Radio 100.5 |
Slogan | "Family Friendly" |
Frequency | 100.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
First air date | April 4, 1990 |
Format | Christian Contemporary |
ERP | 13,500 watts |
HAAT | 136.6 meters |
Class | C3 |
Facility ID | 72377 |
Callsign meaning | "Alice" (the name of the station when it was Modern AC) |
Former callsigns | WSUY (1990-1997) |
Owner | Radio Training Group |
Sister stations | WRTP, WALC, WLFJ (AM), and WLFJ-FM |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | HIS Radio 100.5 |
WALC is a radio station located in Charleston, South Carolina. The station is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to broadcast with 13.5 kW on 100.5 FM. It is owned by the Radio Training Network and broadcasts a Contemporary Christian format under the name HIS Radio 100.5.
Programming includes music by such artists as MercyMe, Chasen, Newsboys, Chris Tomlin, Steven Curtis Chapman, Jeremy Camp, Avalon, Toby Mac, and Mark Schultz, as well a few family ministries such as those of Dr. James Dobson and Charles Stanley. However, the station focuses primarily on music programming.
100.5 signed on as WSUY on April 4, 1990, adopting a light Adult Contemporary format as "Sunny 100.5". This lasted until late 1997 when the station shifted toward Modern AC as "Alice @ 100.5 under the WLLC call letters.
Alice became a big success by Spring 1998 with its "Lilith Fair-type programming", though program director Todd Haller admitted a lot of people did not even know about the station.
The station was purchased by Clear Channel Communications. It became WALC with the same format less than a year later. By 2001, the station had shifted toward more of a traditional Hot Adult Contemporary outlet.