WYEC

For the Cambridge, Illinois radio station that held the call sign WYEC at 93.9 FM from 2003 to 2016, see KQCJ.
WYEC
City Macomb, Illinois
Slogan Macomb's First Radio Station
Frequency 1510 kHz
Format Talk
Power 1,000 watts (daytime)
250 watts (critical hours)
Class D
Former callsigns WKAI (?–1984)
WLRB (1984-2016)
Owner Fletcher Ford
(Virden Broadcasting Corp.)
Sister stations WJEQ, WKAI, WLMD, WMQZ, WNLF[1]
Website wlrbam.com

WYEC is a daytimer radio station licensed to Macomb, Illinois on 1510 kHz. It broadcasts a Talk format.

Because WYEC shares the same frequency as clear-channel station WLAC in Nashville, Tennessee, WYEC broadcasts only during the daytime.

For a time, the then-WLRB was running a Music of Your Life radio network, but Jones Radio Networks divested it in favor of its own Jones Standards format. As Dial Global acquired Jones, the "Jones Standards" network was dissolved and "America's Best Music" took its place. WLRB later switched to talk programming.

WLRB was owned by Prairie Radio Communications/WPW Broadcasting, Inc. until January 2009, when was bought by Nancy Foster's Colchester Radio, Inc. to become part of Prestige Communications.[2][3]

Effective November 30, 2015, WLRB and five sister stations were sold to Fletcher Ford's Virden Broadcasting Corp. at a purchase price of $725,000.

The station changed its call sign to the current WYEC on August 31, 2016.

References

  1. ↑ Colchester Radio, Inc. (2009-02-04). "FCC Form 323: Ownership Report for Commercial Broadcast Stations (File No. BOS-20090209ADM)". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
  2. ↑ Ford, Bill (2009-07-17). "Local radio stations sold". Macomb Journal. Macomb, Illinois: Gatehouse Media.
  3. ↑ Colchester Radio, Inc. (2009-01-06). "Consummation Notice (FCC File No. BALH-20080717ABN)". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved 2009-07-25.

Coordinates: 40°29′50″N 90°40′30″W / 40.49722°N 90.67500°W / 40.49722; -90.67500


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