WHYT

WHYT

City of license	Goodland Township, Michigan
Broadcast area
Branding	Smile FM
Slogan	Michigan's Positive Hits
Frequency	88.1 MHz
First air date	October, 2003
Format	Religious; Contemporary Christian
ERP	400 watts
HAAT	177 meters
Class	A
Former callsigns	WWKM (12/26/02-8/9/04)
Affiliations	Smile FM
Owner	Superior Communications (Smile FM)
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 .4 kW 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 2003 as Joy FM with the callsign WWKM. In June 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.

WHYT was granted a Construction Permit on March 24, 2009, to increase power to 12.5 kW.

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

Repeaters

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

Call Letters

The WHYT call letters were first used at a small market daytime AM station in Noblesville, Indiana (now silent and defunct),then 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 1960s and 1970s, 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.

Sources

Michiguide.com - WHYT History

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WHYT

Radio-Locator information on WHYT

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WHYT

Radio stations in the Thumb area of east-central Michigan

By FM frequency	88.1 88.3 89.1 89.3 90.7 91.3 91.9 92.1 92.5 96.9 97.7 99.9 102.1 102.3 103.1 103.7 103.9 105.5 106.3 107.1

By AM frequency	660 1070 1230 1340 1360 1380 1450 1530 1590 1610

By callsign	CFGX CHOK CHKS W288BT WBGV WBTI WCZE WDTR WGRT WHLS WHLX WHYT WIDL WKYO WLCO WLEW WLEW-FM WMIC WMPC WNFA WNFR WORW WPHM WPLS727 WQUS WSAQ WSGR-FM WSMB WTGV-FM

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Radio stations in the Flint, Michigan market

By FM frequency	88.9 89.7 91.1 92.7 93.7 94.3 95.1 96.1 98.9 101.5 102.5 103.1 103.9 104.7 105.5 107.9

By AM frequency	600 760 910 950 1080 1160 1230 1330 1420 1470 1530 1570

By callsign	WAKL WCRZ WCXI WDZZ-FM WFBE WFDF WFLT WFNT WFUM WHNN WJR WIOG WKUF-LP WLCO WMPC WMRP-LP WOAP WOWE WQUS WRCL WRSR WSNL WTAC WTRX WWBN WWJ WWCK WWCK-FM

Michigan radio markets Battle Creek Detroit Flint Grand Rapids Kalamazoo Lansing-East Lansing Muskegon Traverse City-Petoskey Other Michigan radio regions Alpena Ann Arbor Benton Harbor-St. Joseph Central Michigan Houghton Iron Mountain Jackson Marquette Saginaw-Bay City-Midland Sault Ste. Marie South Central Michigan The Thumb Area See also List of radio stations in Michigan

Coordinates: 43°10′30″N 83°04′01″W / 43.175°N 83.067°W / 43.175; -83.067