WILY

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This article is about the radio station in Illinois. For other uses, see Wily (disambiguation).

WILY

City of license	Centralia, Illinois
Branding	The Big 1210
Slogan	"Good Times, Great Oldies"
Frequency	1210 kHz
First air date	1946^[1]
Format	Oldies
Language(s)	English
Power	10,000 watts (day) 1,100 watts (critical hours) 3 watts (night)
Class	D
Facility ID	26624
Transmitter coordinates	38°28′55″N 89°08′56″W / 38.48194°N 89.14889°W / 38.48194; -89.14889
Former callsigns	WCNT (1946-1967)^[2]
Owner	Withers Broadcasting (W. Russell Withers, Jr.)
Sister stations	WRXX (95.3 FM)
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	mywithersradio.com/centralia

WILY (1210 AM, "The Big 1210") is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Centralia, Illinois. The station is owned by Withers Broadcasting and the broadcast license is held by W. Russell Withers, Jr. The station, established in 1946 as "WCNT", was assigned the call sign "WILY" by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1967.^[1]^[2]

Programming

WILY broadcasts an oldies music format featuring the "Good Time Oldies" programming from Dial Global.^[3] As of January 2012, WILY's on-air personalities include Bruce Chandler in morning drive, JJ McKay on mid-days, Brad Pierce in afternoon drive, Peter McLaine on evenings, and Mike Shaw overnight. WILY also broadcasts a one-hour talk show hosted by Tootie Cooksey each weekday. On Mondays, this is called Talk Time USA and called Hotline on Tuesday through Friday.^[4]

Translators

WILY programming is also carried on a broadcast translator station to extend or improve the coverage area of the station.

Call sign	Frequency MHz	City of license	ERP W	Class	FCC info
W254BE	98.7 FM	Centralia, Illinois	250	D	FCC

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Directory of AM and FM Stations and Market Data for the United States". 1955 Broadcasting Yearbook-Marketbook. Washington, DC: Broadcasting Publications, Inc. 1955. p. 127.
↑ 2.0 2.1 "Call Sign History". CDBS Public Access Database. FCC Media Bureau. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
↑ "Air Staff". Withers Radio Centralia. Retrieved January 25, 2012.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WILY

Radio-Locator Information on WILY

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WILY

v t e Oldies radio stations in the state of Illinois

By frequency	1180 1210 1290 1460 1570 92.7 93.9 95.1 95.7 98.3 104.1 106.1 106.3 106.7 107.3 107.7

By Callsign:	WDKR WFAV WFRL WILY WIRL WLLT WMQZ WPWQ WQRL WRAN WROY WSEY WSQR WVLI WYEC WYYS

By city	Benton Carmi Centralia Colchester Freeport Glasford Kankakee Kankakee Kewanee Maroa Mount Sterling Oregon Peoria Polo Streator Sycamore Tower Hill

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Illinois See also Oldies Classic Hits

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