WHYL

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WHYL
Broadcast area Harrisburg metropolitan area
Frequency 960 kHz
BrandingGood Time Oldies 102.9 WHYL
Programming
Format Oldies
Affiliations Baltimore Orioles Radio Network
Ownership
Owner
  • Harold Z. Swidler
  • (WHYL, Inc.)
WCAT-FM, WIOO, WRDD
History
First air date
February 25, 1949;75 years ago (1949-02-25) (as WLXW)
Former call signs
WLXW (19451952)
Former frequencies
  • 1380 kHz (19451947)
  • 1340 kHz (19471952)
Call sign meaning
Harrisburg, York, Lancaster
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 74556
Class D
Power 5,000 watts days
22 watts nights
Transmitter coordinates
40°11′34.32″N77°10′2″W / 40.1928667°N 77.16722°W / 40.1928667; -77.16722 (WHYL)
Translator(s) See § Translator
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live (via TuneIn)
Website 1029whyl.com

WHYL (960 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Carlisle, Pennsylvania and serving the Harrisburg metropolitan area. The station is owned by Harold Z. Swidler, with the license held by WHYL, Inc. It broadcasts an oldies radio format. It also carries Baltimore Orioles baseball games. The radio studios and offices are on North Hanover Street in Carlisle.

Contents

By day, WHYL is powered at 5,000 watts non-directional. To protect other stations on 960 AM from interference at night, it drops its power to 22 watts. The transmitter is on East Baltimore Street in Carlisle, near Interstate 81. [2] WHYL programming is simulcast around the clock on 160 watt FM translator W275CJ at 102.9 MHz. The translator tower is on Blue Mountain northeast of Carlisle. [3] [4] It uses the FM translator's dial position in its slogan "Good Time Oldies 102.9 WHYL".

History

Promotional publication, dated August 19, 1967 (page 1) WHYL Channel 96 Fabulous Fifty Part 1.jpg
Promotional publication, dated August 19, 1967 (page 1)
Promotional publication, dated August 19, 1967 (page 2) WHYL Channel 96 Fabulous Fifty Part 2.jpg
Promotional publication, dated August 19, 1967 (page 2)

The station's was first license was granted on February 25, 1949, according to records from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Its original call sign was WLXW. By the 1950s, Richard Field Lewis Jr. (1907–1957) had added WLXW (AM) to the Richard Field Lewis Jr. Stations (later Mid Atlantic Network Inc.). [5] [6] [7]

Note that the newspaper article Dated December 6, 1948, refutes the information from Fabulous Fifty web site dated 1967 which is the basis for most of the other information here. See the clips attached. According to them the station went on the air as WLXW on December 4, 1948, and one of its first broadcasts was Santa coming to Carlisle. The station operated out of the building just south of town along Rt 34. The directional array tower system that was used formed a dual lobe pattern extending East-West from around Morgantown to around Everett. [8] The owner was Col. Phillip Matthews, State Democratic (sic) chairman, and was placed in operation Saturday Morning. The 1000-watt station is operating daily from sunrise to sunset on a frequency of 1380 kHz. Jerry McDevitt, formerly of Altoona, was the manager of the station. The Rev. Harry Lee, Carlisle and Vincent Shafmeister, Camp Hill, a student at Dickinson College, were full-time announcers. Dave Taylor, also a Dickinson student was a part-time announcer. The station was located on the Mt. Holly Pike, one-fourth mile south of town. It was contained in a one-story structure, which has two studios, control room, newsroom with teletype, a record library and five offices. The 187-foot tower is at the same location.

The station's original frequency and call sign was WLXW/1380 which was moved to WHYL/960 in the early fifties, approximately 1952 or 53.

As of January 1, 2014, the station was off the air and no carrier signal was being broadcast. The station had filed for bankruptcy in 2012. Longtime morning host Ben Barber left the station in late 2013, at which time other programs, including the John Tesh syndicated midday show, were also discontinued. The station broadcasts were fully automated after this, and there were some periods during which a carrier signal was broadcast without any programming. In June 2014, Harold Z. Swidler purchased the station, planning to return it to the air at partial power and eventually at full power.

On March 7, 2015, WHYL returned to the air with an oldies format, branded as "Good Time Oldies 960". [16]

In 2015 and 2016, WHYL used a single element temporary antenna located on the tower with WCAT-FM "Red 102.3". The station was operating on an FCC Special Temporary Authorization (STA) requested on December 19, 2014, and granted on March 10, 2015. The STA was extended on April 13, 2016, and expired on October 13, 2016. [17] This allowed operation at the station's daytime nondirectional (omnidirectional antenna) power of 1.3 kilowatts and a nighttime power of 22 watts. The request was for 27 watts and reduced by the FCC to 22. [18]

In mid-2016, WHYL began simulcasting on translator W275CJ and was rebranded as "Good Time Oldies 102.9 WHYL".

Translator

WHYL programming is broadcast on the following translator:

Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) HAAT Class Transmitter coordinatesFCC info
W275CJ102.9 FM Carlisle, Pennsylvania 14166116095  m (312  ft)D 40°17′23.3″N77°8′8.9″W / 40.289806°N 77.135806°W / 40.289806; -77.135806 (W275CJ) LMS

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