WHYT

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WHYT

City of license	Goodland Township, Michigan
Broadcast area	[1]
Branding	Smile FM
Slogan	Michigan's Positive Hits
First air date	October, 2003
Frequency	88.1 MHz
Format	Religious; Contemporary Christian
Power	400 watts
Class	A
Former callsigns	WWKM (12/26/02-8/9/04)
Affiliations	Smile FM
Owner	Superior Communications
Webcast	http://www.smile.fm/streaming/
Website	http://www.smile.fm/

WHYT is a non-commercial, contemporary Christian FM radio station licensed to serve Goodland Township and Imlay City, Michigan. The transmitter is located between Imlay City and Marlette, Michigan. The station broadcasts on 88.1 with .4kw and is owned by Superior Communications (aka Michigan Community Radio and Northland Community Broadcasters) which is owned by Jennifer and Edward Czelada.

WHYT began broadcasting in October of 2003 as Joy FM with the callsign WWKM. In June of 2004 it merged with the other The Light and Joy FM stations owned by Superior Communications to form Smile FM and took the WHYT callsign from its sister station on 89.1 which switched to a different format. Programming with local inserts originates from WLGH in Lansing.

Smile FM Internet streaming originates from WHYT and includes the WHYT/WTAC/WCZE ID at the top of each hour.

1 Repeaters
2 Call Letters
3 Sources
4 External links

[edit] Repeaters

WHYT has two repeater stations in Flint and the Thumb area which share the same local inserts, WTAC and WCZE.

[edit] Call Letters

The WHYT call letters were used for many years by 96.3 Detroit (now WDVD) and were also used by what is now WHLX in Marine City after 96.3 FM dropped the calls. The call letters WTAC were used by AM 600 in Flint when it was a popular top 40 station during the 1960's and 1970's, and subsequently through country and contemporary Christian formats. That station is now WSNL. WCZE is based on the first three letters of the owners' last name.