WEXL

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WEXL

City of license	Royal Oak, Michigan
Broadcast area	Detroit area
Branding	Glory 1340
Frequency	1340 kHz (also on HD Radio)
Format	Gospel
Power	1,000 watts day 1,000 watts night
Class	C
Facility ID	61679
Transmitter coordinates	42°28′10.00″N 83°6′54.00″W / 42.4694444°N 83.1150000°W / 42.4694444; -83.1150000
Callsign meaning	We EXceL
Owner	Crawford Broadcasting (WMUZ Radio, Inc.)
Sister stations	WMUZ, WRDT
Website	wexl1340.com

WEXL is an Urban Gospel station at 1340 AM licensed to Royal Oak, Michigan and broadcasting in the Detroit area. It's known as Glory 1340 and owned by Crawford Broadcasting with WMUZ 103.5 FM and WRDT 560 AM.

History

What is now WEXL took to the air August 19, 1926 with the calls WAGM. The WEXL ("We Excel") calls were adopted in 1931. The station carved out a niche with local, block-programmed variety programming, including country music aimed at men who migrated from the southern United States to work in Detroit's automobile assembly plants. After a brief period as a Top 40 station with limited success, WEXL expanded its country music programming to a 24-hour format in 1963, the first station in metro Detroit to do so. The station was successful for a number of years; a 1966 Billboard magazine poll showed WEXL as the most influential country station in the southeastern Michigan area by far(). However, the station got competition in 1970 when WJBK-AM 1500 flipped from Top 40 to hit-based country as WDEE (now WLQV), and in 1974 WEXL dropped country music in favor of religious programming. Current owner Crawford Broadcasting acquired WEXL in 1997 and changed the station's format from a combination of Christian and motivational talk to Urban Gospel.

Sources

Michiguide.com - WEXL History

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WEXL

v t e Radio stations in the Detroit, Michigan market (excluding Canadian stations)

By FM frequency	88.1 88.1 88.1 88.1 88.3 88.3 88.3 89.1 89.3 89.3 89.5 89.5 89.5 89.5 90.9 91.5 92.3 92.7 93.1 93.5 93.5/98.3/105.5/106.3/107.1¹ 94.3 94.7 95.5 96.3 97.1 97.5 97.9 98.7 99.5 99.9 100.3 101.1 101.9 102.7 103.5 104.3 105.1 105.9 106.7 107.5

By AM frequency	560 680/690 760 910 950 1030 1090 1130 1200 1270 1310 1340 1400 1440 1460 1500 1590

NOAA Weather Radio frequencies	162.425 162.450 162.550

Digital radio	560 950 1130 1200 1270 1340 92.3-2 93.1-1 93.1-2 94.7-1 94.7-2 95.5-1 95.5-2 96.3-1 96.3-2 97.1-1 97.1-2 97.1-3 97.9-1 97.9-2 98.3-1 98.7-1 98.7-2 99.5-1 99.5-2 99.5-3 100.3-1 100.3-2 101.1-1 101.1-2 102.7-1 103.5-1 103.5-2 103.5-3 104.3-1 104.3-2 104.3-3 105.1-1 105.1-2 105.9-1 105.9-2 106.7-1 106.7-2 107.5-1

By callsign	KEC63 KKJA W208BB W224CC W232CA W252BX W260CB W288BK W292DK W296CG WAHS WBFH WBLD WCAR WCHB WCSX WDET-FM WDFN WDMK WDRJ WDRQ WDTE WDTK WDTP WDTW WDTW-FM WDVD WDZH WEXL WFDF WGPR WHFR WHMI-FM WHPR-FM WJLB WJR WKQI WLQV WMGC-FM WMUZ WMXD WNIC WNZK WOMC WOVI WPHS WPON WPZR WRCJ-FM WRDT WRIF WSMF WSDP WSHJ WUFL WVMV WWJ WXOU WXYT WXYT-FM WYCD WYDM

Defunct	WBRB 1430

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v t e Crawford Broadcasting

AM Radio Stations	KBRT KCBC KLDC KLTT KLVZ KLZ KSTL KKPZ WDCD WDCX WEXL WRDT WXJC WYDE

FM Radio Stations	WDAC WDCD-FM WDCX-FM WDJC-FM WLGZ-FM WMUZ WPWX WSRB WXJC-FM WYCA WYDE-FM WYRB

Website crawfordbroadcasting.com

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