KWUL-FM

KWUL-FM
Elsberry, Missouri ;
Frequency	101.7 MHz
Branding	K-Wulf
Programming
Format	Americana
Ownership
Owner	Louis Eckelkamp; (East Central Broadcasting, LLC);
Sister stations	KRTE-FM, KRTK, KVMO, KWUL, KXEN
History
First air date	1966 (as KLPW-FM)
Former call signs	KLPW-FM (1966–2010); KXQX (2010–2016); KWUL (2016–2023)
Call sign meaning	"K-Wulf"
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	70301
Class	A
ERP	3,100 watts
HAAT	142 meters (466 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	39°06′9.00″N90°49′23.00″W / 39.1025000°N 90.8230556°W
Repeater(s)	920 KWUL (St. Louis)
Links
Public license information	Public file ; LMS ;
Website	kwulf.com

Last updated July 20, 2024

KWUL-FM (101.7 MHz) is a radio station licensed to Elsberry, Missouri, serving a wide area of the Metro West suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri.^[2]

The station plays a format that is a mixture of Rock and Americana music dubbed "Rock 'N Americana," and has since Spring 2018. Previous to that the station had played for nearly a year a variety of Adult Alternative rock music since returning to the air after being off the air for several years after the station was repossessed from its former owner Randy Wachter into the court ordered receivership of Dennis Wallace, a Maryland based TV and Radio engineer.

The station was originally KLPW-FM licensed to Union, Missouri. It went on the air in 1966 and for its first couple of years was a classical music station broadcasting with 1,000 watts of power. In 1968, the format was changed to country music, and it would remain as such four the next 42 years. In 2008, the 101.7 FM frequency was relocated from Union, Missouri in Franklin County, over 50 miles to the Northeast to a site high atop the Mississippi River bluffs near Elsberry, Missouri, where it better serves the St. Louis Metro West area. In 2010, the station changed its call sign to KXQX, and would broadcast Alternative Rock music as "101.7 FMX" until the poor health and financial situation of Randy Wachter, who had owned the station since 2008 took it off the air in 2014. It was able to maintain its license by broadcasting once a year until the radio station was forced into receivership in 2016.

The station returned to the air in July 2017 under the receiver with the new call sign KWUL, with an Adult album alternative rock format. KWUL would later start calling itself "K-Wulf 101.7" using the positioner "Rock N Americana."

Effective May 3, 2021, KWUL and two sister stations were sold to Louis Eckelkamp's East Central Broadcasting, LLC for $2,500 and forgiveness of the outstanding debt. On March 17, 2023, the station changed its call sign to KWUL-FM.

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References

↑ "Facility Technical Data for KWUL-FM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
↑ "101.7 K-WULF KWUL FM Radio Station Information". Radio Lineup. Retrieved February 16, 2024.

External links

Facility details for Facility ID 70301 (KWUL-FM) in the FCC Licensing and Management System

KWUL-FM in Nielsen Audio's FM station database

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[1] "Facility Technical Data for KWUL-FM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.

[2] "101.7 K-WULF KWUL FM Radio Station Information". Radio Lineup. Retrieved February 16, 2024.

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