WLIT
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| City | Chicago, Illinois |
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| Broadcast area | Chicago market |
| Branding | 93.9 My FM |
| Slogan | "The Best Variety from the 80's to Now" (General) "Chicago’s Christmas Music Station" (Nov. - Dec.) |
| Frequency | 93.9 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | April 7, 1962 (as WEBH) |
| Format | FM/HD1: Mainstream AC Christmas (Nov. - Dec.) HD2: Soft AC "Delilah Radio" |
| Audience share | 13.7 (Holiday 2016, Nielsen Audio[1]) |
| ERP | 4,000 watts |
| HAAT | 482 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 70042 |
| Callsign meaning | LITe FM (previous branding) |
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| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (AMFM Broadcasting Licenses, LLC) |
| Sister stations | |
| Webcast | Listen Live (via iHeartRadio) |
| Website | www |
WLIT-FM 93.9 FM, ("93.9 My FM") is a radio station licensed to Chicago, Illinois, featuring a format of Mainstream AC music. The station is currently owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications until September 2014). WLIT has studios located at the Illinois Center complex on Michigan Avenue in Downtown Chicago, and it broadcasts from a 4kw transmitter and antenna based atop Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower). WLIT broadcasts with the maximum authorized power for a Class B FM station at the specified antenna height.
93.9 FM in Chicago began operation April 7, 1958, with the call sign WEBH (which stood for the Edgewater Beach Hotel, the location of its original studios), under the ownership of Buddy Black Broadcasting Co. Broadcasting Yearbook 1958 (Retrieved August 26, 2016) In 1969 the station was sold to Rich Communications Corp., a group owner of Stations WAMO AM-FM, Pittsburgh (25%); WILD(AM), Boston; WLTO(AM), Miami; and WUFO(AM), Amherst, N.Y. The new owner changed the WEBH call sign to WWEL in January 1970. The station broadcast "beautiful music", an easy listening format with mostly instrumentals and a couple of soft vocal songs per hour.
WWEL was "WW-EL" from mid 1970 to 1972, to describe the easy listening format that was broadcast. In 1971 WWEL was sold to Sudbrink Broadcasting, a group owner of Stations WAVO AM-FM, Decatur, Ga.; WZIP(AM) and WWEZ-FM, Cincinnati; WRMS(AM), Beardstown, Ill.; WRIZ(AM), Coral Gables, Fla.; KYND-FM, Pasadena, Tex.; WLYF-FM, Miami; WTOW(AM), Towson, Md.; WLIF-FM, Baltimore; and WEZW-FM, Wauwatosa, Wisc. In March 1972, the WWEL call sign was changed to WLAK. WLAK adopted the beautiful music format produced and distributed by Stereo Radio Productions, as did the other Sudbrink FM stations.
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