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Broadcast area | Southeastern Connecticut |
Frequency | 100.9 MHz |
Branding | 100.9 K-Hits |
Programming | |
Format | Classic hits |
Ownership | |
Owner | Hall Communications, Inc. |
WCTY, WICH, WILI, WILI-FM, WNLC | |
History | |
First air date | January 1, 1970 |
Former call signs | WTYD (1970–2000) [1] |
Call sign meaning | "Kool New London" |
Technical information [2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 48547 |
Class | A |
ERP | 6,000 watts |
HAAT | 99 meters (325 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°26′27.3″N 72°8′27.2″W / 41.440917°N 72.140889°W |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen live |
Website |
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WKNL (100.9 FM, "100.9 K-Hits") is a radio station licensed to serve New London, Connecticut. The station is owned by Hall Communications, Inc., which owns a number of stations in medium-sized markets along the eastern seaboard from Vermont to Florida. [3] It airs a classic hits music format. [4]
WKNL signed on January 1, 1970, as WTYD, a beautiful music station branded as "Tide 101". [5] At the outset, the station was owned by Thames Broadcasting Corporation, which also owned WNLC (1510 AM). [6] Thames Broadcasting sold the stations to Mercury Broadcasting Corporation in 1976; [7] in 1984, Mercury sold them to Drubner Broadcasting, [8] which then sold WTYD and WNLC to Andross Communications in 1989. [9] In 1990, WTYD shifted to an adult contemporary format. [5]
Hall Communications purchased WTYD and WNLC in 1995. [10] On March 10, 2000, Hall changed the station's format to oldies as "Kool 101", in response to WVVE (102.3 FM, now WMOS) dropping the format in December 1999; [5] the WKNL call letters had been assigned on February 25, 2000. [1] The oldies format (which subsequently shifted to classic hits) was dropped at midnight on December 17, 2012, when it changed to hot adult contemporary, branded as "100.9 Roxy FM"; at the time, sister station WNLC (98.7 FM) also programmed a classic hits format. [11] The last song on "Kool 101" was " Last Dance" by Donna Summer with the first song on "100.9 Roxy FM" being " Some Nights" by Fun. [11] On March 1, 2017, at 5:00 pm, WKNL flipped back to classic hits, branded as "100.9 K-Hits". The airstaff from Roxy remained on the station with the change. [11]