WJLS (AM)

WJLS

City of license	Beckley, West Virginia
Broadcast area	Southeastern West Virginia
Branding	"AM 560"
Slogan	"Your Family's Guiding Light"
Frequency	560 kHz
First air date	1939
Format	Southern Gospel
Power	4,500 Watts daytime 470 Watts nighttime
Class	B
Facility ID	52335
Transmitter coordinates	37°45′32.0″N 81°11′12.0″W / 37.758889°N 81.186667°W / 37.758889; -81.186667
Callsign meaning	W Joe L. Smith father of owner Joe L. Smith Jr.
Owner	West Virginia Radio Company of Raleigh, LLC
Sister stations	WJLS-FM
Website	WJLS Online

WJLS is a Southern Gospel formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Beckley, West Virginia, serving Southeastern West Virginia. WJLS is owned and operated by West Virginia Radio Company of Raleigh, LLC. The station began broadcasting in 1939, the first radio station in Beckley. From 1943 to 1990 WJLS(AM) was a CBS affiliate. The station had a country music format in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1990 it swapped formats with WJLS-FM.

External links

AM 560 Online

Query the FCC's AM station database for WJLS

Radio-Locator Information on WJLS

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WJLS

Radio stations in the Beckley, West Virginia market

By FM frequency	88.1 88.7 89.7 90.1 91.1 91.7 94.1 96.7 97.9 98.5 99.5 101.5 102.3 103.7 104.5 105.9 106.9

By AM frequency	560 620 860 1070 1380

By callsign	W244BF W268AZ WAXS WBKW WCIR-FM WHAJ WJJJ WJLS WJLS-FM WMTD WMTD-FM WNUX WOAY WPIB WQAZ-LP WQTZ-LP WPWV WTNJ WVBY WVPP-LP WWNR

West Virginia radio markets Beckley Bluefield Charleston Huntington Morgantown–Clarksburg–Fairmont Parkersburg Wheeling Other West Virginia radio regions Cumberland, MD East-Central Eastern Panhandle Elkins–Buckhannon–Weston Kingwood Southern West-Central Winchester, VA See also List of radio stations in West Virginia

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