WSNL (600 AM ) is a commercial radio station licensed to Flint, Michigan . It is owned by the Christian Broadcasting System and broadcasts a Christian talk and teaching radio format . The studios and offices are on Saginaw Street in Flint.
16-491: WSIS may refer to: WSIS (FM) , a radio station (88.7 FM) licensed to Riverside, Michigan, United States World Summit on the Information Society Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title WSIS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
32-495: A Top 40 contemporary station during the 1960s and 1970s. But by the 1980s, most listeners to contemporary music had switched to FM stations. WTAC flipped to a full service , country music format in 1981. The country sound lasted more than a decade, but again, country listeners began to tune to FM stations for their music. During the early and mid-1990s, WTAC operated as a Contemporary Christian music station. The WTAC call letters are now used on Smile FM 's 89.7 FM signal in
48-558: A few short breaks for weather, news, announcements, and features. Smile FM has also pioneered the use of new technology to help distribute and customize its programming, including developing an emergency weather notification system that is faster and more reliable than the required EAS system (which they also operate). The licenses for the stations are split between four subsidiaries: Superior Communications, Michigan Community Radio, Northland Community Broadcasters and Smile FM. In January 2008, Smile FM established WWKM (now WDTR) Imlay City as
64-505: A younger audience. In June 2004, the two networks were combined to form Smile FM in a "wedding ceremony" conducted at Oldsmobile Park in Lansing. The new name eliminated confusion since many other unrelated stations used The Light and Joy FM names. The network is notable for putting stations on the air at a low cost. They lease existing towers and manufacture some of their own equipment. Unlike many Christian stations, they play music with only
80-509: Is reduced to 250 watts. It uses a directional antenna with a three- tower array . The transmitter is on Morrish Road at Grand Blanc Road in Swartz Creek, Michigan . Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator W293CA at 106.5 MHz in Flint. The two stations are collectively known as Christian Talk AM 600 and 106.5 FM. WSNL carries brokered programming , where hosts buy time on
96-557: The " Golden Age of Radio ." The call sign changed to WTAC October 13, 1948. It was still under Trendle and Campbell's ownership. WTAC popularly stood for " T he A uto C ity", referring to Chevrolet and Buick plants formerly located in Flint, but the call letters actually stood for Trendle and Campbell. Trendle and Campbell sold WTAC to a Hawaii -based group in 1954. Under the ownership of Radio Hawaii, Inc., WTAC shed its NBC affiliation to become one of Michigan's first Top 40 music stations in 1956. Its original program director
112-880: The Alpena area, WSFP, once bore the calls of WWKM's sister station WKKM, which is now WTWS in Houghton Lake). Others were named for the original formats of the stations. WLGH and WTLI were The Light. All of the stations beginning with WJ were in or scheduled to be in the Joy FM network. All call letters beginning with WDT (WDTE, WDTP, and WDTR) serve portions of the Detroit metropolitan area. The combined footprint of Smile FM's stations covers most of Michigan's densely populated area (though much of West Michigan relies on translators). Stations owned and operated by Smile FM include: Translators rebroadcasting Smile FM include: On October 6, 2022, it
128-505: The air on April 26, 1946 ; 78 years ago ( 1946-04-26 ) . The original call sign was WFLM , standing for FL int, M ichigan. The station was purchased in December 1946 by George W. Trendle and H. Allen Campbell, who changed the call letters to WTCB and made the station into Flint's NBC Red Network affiliate . WTCB carried NBC's dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas , game shows and big band broadcasts during
144-526: The flagship of an experimental Smile FM Praise network playing Christian contemporary worship music . Previously, the station had broadcast traditional Christian music and hymns. The Smile FM Praise experiment was ended in 2009 and plans made to move that station to the northern suburbs of Detroit. The owners have often recycled the call letters of famous Michigan stations of the past for their stations. WDTR (now WRCJ ), WHYT (now WDVD ), and WVMV (now WDZH ) were once used by Detroit stations. WTAC (now WSNL )
160-464: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WSIS&oldid=881454353 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WSIS (FM) Smile FM is a network of non-commercial , contemporary Christian radio stations in
176-871: The state of Michigan owned by Superior Communications, a nonprofit organization. Most programming originates from studios in Williamston (just east of Lansing ) and is relayed (with local inserts) by an expanding number of stations throughout the state. The network also has studios in Imlay City, Michigan . Smile FM was originally two separate networks. The first, The Light, was founded in December 1996, when WLGH in Leroy Township , serving Lansing, signed on. The second, Joy FM, began on December 12, 2000, with WHYT (renamed as WWKM and again as WDTR) in Imlay City. While both played contemporary Christian music, The Light aimed for
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#1732859170884192-524: The station and may use their programs to seek donations to their ministries. National religious leaders heard on WSNL include David Jeremiah , Charles Stanley , Jim Daly , Joyce Meyer and John MacArthur . On weekday afternoons, WSNL carries the family finances program The Ramsey Show with Dave Ramsey . Weekday evenings, it airs conservative political talk from Bill O'Reilly . Some hours on weekends, WSNL plays Christian contemporary music and Southern Gospel music. The station first signed on
208-467: The station in 1961 to a Philadelphia group that included Gene Milner who became manager of the station. During WTAC run as a Top 40 rock station, WTAC's engineer was Robert "Bob" Garner, who said he hated rock music except for Chuck Berry 's "My Ding-a-Ling." In its final years as a Top 40, WTAC helped introduce the Australian heavy metal band AC/DC to American audiences. "The Big 600" flourished as
224-534: Was Mike Joseph , who would launch the legendary WKNR "Keener 13" in Detroit in 1963 and later went on to create the Hot Hits format in the early 1970s. J.P. McCarthy , later an institution in morning drive time radio for decades at 760 WJR Detroit , was WTAC's original Top 40 nighttime disc jockey in 1956. The station was also owned for a time by the Chess brothers, who owned and operated Chess Records . Chess sold
240-539: Was announced that Smile FM has filed a $ 60,000 deal to purchase WGVU (1480 AM) in Grand Rapids from Grand Valley State University . The station, along with WGVS (850 AM) in Muskegon, originally carried an oldies radio format until January 7, 2022, when both stations closed down. Smile FM had already acquired WGVS effective June 28, 2022, for $ 25,000. WSNL By day, WSNL is powered at 440 watts . At night, power
256-565: Was the leading top 40 station in Flint during the 1960s (and, ironically, a pioneering contemporary Christian station during the 1980s). WKPK was used by a popular top 40 station of the 1980s and 1990s in northern Michigan (now WSRT ). WAIR was an oldies station in northern Michigan (now WFDX ) and the calls were also used for a construction permit for a station in Honor (now WSRJ). WWKM was a now-defunct station in Harrison (and Smile FM's 88.5 FM station in
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