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On October 31, 1940, the first fifteen construction permits for commercial FM stations were issued, including one to Zenith for a station in Chicago at 45.1 MHz, [11] which was issued the call sign W51C. [12] It was one of the first FM stations in the United States, and is the country's oldest FM station still in operation.
WZIM (99.5 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Lexington, Illinois, and serving the Bloomington-Normal radio market. The station is owned and operated by Pilot Media, and calls itself "Magic 99.5." It broadcasts an adult contemporary radio format, but for much of November and December, it switches to Christmas music.
WERV-FM (95.9 MHz "95.9 The River") is a commercial radio station, licensed to Aurora, Illinois, and serving the western suburbs of Chicago. It is owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. [5] WERV-FM has a classic alternative radio format. WERV-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 2,850 watts.
WCHI-FM (95.5 MHz) is a mainstream rock formatted radio station located in Chicago, Illinois, owned and operated by iHeartMedia. WCHI-FM has studios located at the Illinois Center complex on Michigan Avenue in Downtown Chicago , and it broadcasts from a 5.3 kW transmitter based atop John Hancock Center .
In 1948, the 99.5 FM frequency was used by WCAR-FM in Pontiac, Michigan. It was the FM sister station of WCAR (now WDFN). In 1956, WCAR moved from Pontiac to Detroit. But few people owned FM radios in that era, so the FM signal was dropped, leaving 99.5 FM open in Detroit. (In 1964, WCAR bought WLIN-FM 92.3 and rename that station WCAR-FM.
The 99.5 FM broadcast license began broadcasting October 6, 1948, as WLLH-FM, [10] the FM counterpart to WLLH, programming a full-service format to the Merrimack Valley. During the 1970s, 99.5 became WSSH (for Wish 99.5 ), which programmed a format of chiefly soft instrumental renditions of pop tunes with a few vocalists an hour, consisting of ...
WEPN-FM, a radio station (98.7 FM) licensed to New York, New York, United States, which was branded 99X under the callsign WXLO during the 1970s WMMS-HD2 and W256BT , an HD Radio digital subchannel (100.7-2 FM) and its low-power analog translator (99.1 FM) – both licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States – which were branded 99X from 2012 ...