WFIL
 |
|
| City | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Delaware Valley |
| Branding | Philadelphia's Christian Radio |
| Frequency | 560 kHz |
| First air date | March 18, 1922 |
| Format | Christian radio |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 52193 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°05′42.00″N 75°16′38.00″W / 40.0950000°N 75.2772222°W |
| Callsign meaning | combination of predecessor stations WFI and WLIT |
| Owner |
Salem Media Group (Pennsylvania Media Associates, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WNTP |
| Webcast | Listen LivePLS Link |
| Website | www |
|
WFIL Studio
|
|
 |
|
 
|
|
| Location | 4548 Market St. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 39°57′28.56″N 75°12′47.08″W / 39.9579333°N 75.2130778°WCoordinates: 39°57′28.56″N 75°12′47.08″W / 39.9579333°N 75.2130778°W |
| Built | 1948 |
| Architect | Savery, Scheetz & Gilmour; Levy,Abraham |
| Architectural style | Moderne, Other |
| NRHP Reference # | 86002092 |
| Added to NRHP | July 28, 1986 |
WFIL (560 AM) is an AM radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, owned by Salem Media Group and broadcasting with a Christian radio format consisting of teaching and talk programs. The station's studios and transmitter facilities are shared with co-owned WNTP (990 AM) in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania. The station's daytime coverage includes Philadelphia and portions of the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, as well as parts of New Jersey and Delaware.
WFIL is immediately adjacent to sister station WMCA (at 570) in New York City, and the two stations have similar histories: both were Top 40 stations in the 1960s, both underwent a format evolution as AM radio faded as a music medium, and both have a Christian/religious format today. WFIL and WMCA are both 5,000 watt radio stations, but each one puts less than 5 kW of power in the specific direction of the other, because they are located next to each other on the dial, and are not allowed, by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to interfere with each other. Both stations also maintained Call For Action telephone help lines, being among the first radio stations in the United States to do so. The telephone number of WFIL's Call For Action line was GReenwood 7-5312. (Under the present-day North American Numbering Plan, the primary telephone numbering plan in the United States, this number would have corresponded to (215) 477-5312.)
...
Wikipedia