WPPN
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| City | Des Plaines, Illinois |
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| Broadcast area | Chicago, Illinois |
| Branding | Amor 106.7 |
| Frequency | 106.7 MHz |
| First air date | 1971 (as WYEN) (WPPN since November 1, 2004) |
| Format | Spanish AC |
| Audience share | 1.9 (Holiday 2016, Nielsen Audio[1]) |
| ERP | 50,000 watts |
| HAAT | 129 meters (423 ft) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 25053 |
| Former callsigns | WYEN (1971-1980s) WZRC (1980s-1987) WTWV (1987-1989) WYLL (1989-2000) WZFS (2000-2004) |
| Owner |
Univision Radio (Univision Radio License Corporation) |
| Sister stations |
WOJO, WRTO-AM, WVIV, WVIX Also part of the Univision Cluster: TV Stations WXFT and WGBO |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | amor1067.univision.com |
WPPN is an FM radio station licensed to Des Plaines, Illinois that targets the Chicago metropolitan area. WPPN broadcasts on 106.7 MHz with a Spanish AC format.
Due to WPPN's 50,000 watt transmitter and Northern Suburb location, it can be heard through much of the Rockford and Southern Wisconsin area.
The Des Plaines-licensed 106.7 signed on as locally owned WYEN in 1971. Initially, the station aired a Beautiful music format, before becoming "Request Radio" in late 1972, playing music requested by listeners. WYEN's format evolved to an Adult Contemporary format and was branded Y-107. In September 1986, the station took on the syndicated Z-Rock format and the call letters WZRC. In 1987, the station took on a smooth jazz format as WTWV, "The Wave", until it was sold to Salem Media, an ancestor of today's Salem Communications, in 1989.
Upon acquiring the station, Salem flipped the station to a Christian Contemporary Music format, using the WYLL call letters. However, the format was short lived, as Salem began selling half of the day to Christian ministries in 1990. By 1991, music was heard only in afternoons, and in 1992 the remaining music was eliminated entirely, other than a short block on Saturday afternoons.
In 1993, local Christian talk shows was added during middays and afternoons. By this point, the format had entirely become what the radio industry would consider "Christian Talk and Teaching". They also ran 3-4 hour blocks of satellite Contemporary Christian music overnights.
The religious talk format continued on WYLL until February 2001. In 2000, Salem acquired WXRT-AM 1160, a powerful signal formerly known as WJJD, which had been used by former owner Infinity to simulcast 93.1 WXRT following the move of WSCR to 670 AM. In February 2001, Salem moved the Christian talk programming of WYLL to WXRT-AM, which soon received the WYLL call letters, which remain to this day.
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