WNGL
| City | Mobile, Alabama |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 1410 kHz |
| First air date | February 7, 1930 |
| Format | Catholic |
| Power | 5,000 watts (day) 4,600 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 854 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°42′24″N 88°3′43″W / 30.70667°N 88.06194°W |
| Callsign meaning | ANGEL |
| Former callsigns | WODX (1930-1933) WALA (1933-1963) WUNI (1963-1984) WMML (1984-1991) WLVV (1991-2009) |
| Owner | Archangel Communications, Inc. |
| Website | wngl1410am.com |
WNGL (1410 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Mobile, Alabama, USA. Since September 2009, the station has been owned by Fairhope-based Archangel Communications, Inc.
WNGL broadcasts a Catholic radio format to the Mobile metropolitan area. The station primarily airs programming from EWTN Global Catholic Radio and also broadcasts a local Live Hour program weekdays at 7AM, along with McGill-Toolen High School Football games.
The oldest radio station in Mobile, WODX first broadcast from the Battle House Hotel in downtown Mobile on February 7, 1930. Owned by W.O. Pape's Pape Broadcasting Company, the station changed its call sign to WALA in 1933. The book Alabama's First Broadcast Stations by Harry Butler says the calls WALA once stood for "We Are Loyal Alabamians".
January 1953 saw the launch of co-owned NBC-affiliated television station WALA-TV (channel 10) in Mobile and the start of a new era for the AM radio station. A shift by the Pape family in January 1956 saw WALA transferred to a new company called Pape Television Company.
In 1963 the ownership of the radio and television stations was split and the AM station's callsign was changed to WUNI. The callsign was intended to sound out the phrase "You and I". The re-christened radio station was acquired by a new company called WUNI Inc. on December 3, 1964. It was with this ownership change that WUNI became the first full-time country music radio station in Mobile. The station was sold again, this time to the similarly named Radio Station WUNI Inc. on August 1, 1976.
In October 1983, Radio Station WUNI, Inc., agreed to sell the station to country music legend Mel Tillis through his Tillis Communications, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on December 2, 1983. Tillis had the Federal Communications Commission assign new call letters WMML on January 3, 1984. As with sister station KMML in Amarillo, Texas, the new callsign stood for "M-M-Mel Tillis" as a play on Mel's famous stutter. WMML continued to air the country music format it had adopted back in 1964.
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