WLIL

WLIL
City	Lenoir City, Tennessee
Broadcast area	Knoxville, Tennessee
Branding	The Legendary AM 730
Slogan	East Tennessee's Country Classics
Frequency	730 kHz
First air date	May 27, 1950
Format	Classic country
ERP	1,000 watts day 214 watts night
Class	D
Facility ID	73211
Transmitter coordinates	35°46′12.00″N 84°16′47.00″W / 35.7700000°N 84.2797222°W / 35.7700000; -84.2797222
Owner	Fowlers Holdings Lllp
Sister stations	WFIA
Website	http://wlilcountry.com

WLIL "The Legendary AM 730" is a radio station broadcasting "East Tennessee's Country Classics." Licensed to Lenoir City, Tennessee, it serves the Knoxville, Tennessee area.

History

WLIL has been "serving east Tennessee since 1950." Arthur Wilkerson, who worked in construction, traveled a lot. One day, he was working in Louisville, Kentucky and could see inside a radio station from where he was working. Finding that interesting, he went to the station after work and sat in the audience of live broadcasts. Wilkerson pondered whether his home town of Lenoir City, Tennessee could support a radio station. In 1949, he applied for a license, and WLIL-AM went on the air at 730, a clear channel, on May 27, 1950, with 1000 watts during the day.

Although few people had FM radios, Wilkerson also applied for an FM station at 100.3. In 1956, WSM in Nashville, Tennessee closed its FM station, and Wilkerson did the same, believing that if such a big station couldn't succeed, he had no chance.

Knoxville got its first FM station in 1966, and Wilkerson realized he may have made a mistake. WLIL-FM signed on at 93.5 in 1967.

In addition to his radio station, Wilkerson owned a lumber mill and built custom homes. He served as president of the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters. He was also a pilot and he ran a restaurant.

After Wilkerson died in 1998, BP Broadcasters purchased the station.^[1]

In 2006, Progressive Media, owner of WIFA, purchased WLIL from BP Broadcasters LLC.^[2] BP kept the FM station, which had simulcast the AM through its entire history. Dwight Wilkerson, son of Arthur, kept WLIK in Newport, Tennessee.

Fowlers Holdings Lllp now owns WLIL. Don Fowler owns furniture stores in Tennessee and Georgia.^[1]

References

1 2 http://wlilcountry.com, Retrieved on 2009-05-14.
↑ "Deals," Broadcasting and Cable, August 14, 2006.

External links

WLIL official website

Query the FCC's AM station database for WLIL

Radio-Locator Information on WLIL

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WLIL

Knoxville, Tennessee radio stations

By AM frequency	620 730 760 850 900 990 1040 1120 1180 1240 1340 1380 1400 1490 1580

By FM frequency	88.3 88.7 89.1 89.9 90.3 91.1 91.9 92.7 93.1 93.5 94.3 95.3 95.7 96.3 96.7 97.5 98.7 99.1 99.3 99.7 100.3 101.1 102.1 103.5 104.5 105.3 106.1 106.7 107.3 107.7

By callsign	WCYQ WDKW WDVX WETR WFGW WFIV-FM WGAP WIAM-LP WIFA WIJV WIMZ-FM WITA WIVK-FM WJBE WJBZ-FM WJRV WJXB-FM WKCE WKCS WKGN WKHT WKVL WKXV WKZX-FM WLIL WMYL WNFZ WNML WNML-FM WNOX WNPZ WNRX WOFM WOKI WRJZ WUOT WUTK-FM WVLZ WWQK WWST WYFC WYLV WYSH

Defunct	WATO 1290 AM WMTY 670 AM

Tennessee radio markets Chattanooga Jackson Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol Knoxville Memphis Nashville Other Tennessee radio regions Clarksville Cookeville See also List of radio stations in Tennessee

Country radio stations in the state of Tennessee

Stations	KYTN – Union City WAKM – Franklin WANT – Lebanon WAXO – Lewisburg WBEJ – Elizabethton WBRY – Woodbury WCOR – Lebanon WCYQ – Oak Ridge WDEB-FM – Jamestown WDEF - Chattanooga WDKN – Dickson WDKW – Maryville WDXE – Lawrenceburg WDYE - Dyer WECO-FM – Wartburg WEIO – Huntingdon WEKR – Fayetteville WEMB – Erwin WEPG – South Pittsburg WEYE – Surgoinsville WFWL – Camden WGAP – Maryville WGKX – Memphis WGOC – Kingsport WGSQ – Cookeville WHIN – Gallatin WIKQ – Tusculum WIVK-FM – Knoxville WJDT – Rogersville WJJM-FM – Lewisburg WJLE – Smithville WJLE-FM – Smithville WJSQ – Athens WKBQ – Covington WKDF – Nashville WKJQ-FM – Parsons WKOS – Kingsport WKSR – Pulaski WKVL - Knoxville WKWX – Savannah WKXD-FM – Monterey WLAR – Athens WLCT – Lafayette WLFP – Germantown/Memphis WLIL – Lenoir City WLIV – Livingston WLIV-FM – Monterey WLLX – Lawrenceburg WLNQ – White Pine WLNT-LP – Loudon WLOD – Loudon WLVS-FM – Clifton WLXA - Loretto WMCP – Columbia WMCT – Mountain City WMOD – Bolivar WMTN – Morristown WMUF – Henry WMYL – Halls Crossroads WNCK - Cookeville WNKX-FM – Centerville WNOX – Karns WNPC – Newport WOGT – East Ridge WOGY – Jackson WOOP-LP – Cleveland WORM-FM – Savannah WOWF – Crossville WPFT – Pigeon Forge WRGS – Rogersville WSBI – Static WSDQ – Dunlap WSIX-FM – Nashville WSM – Nashville WSM-FM – Nashville WTNK – Hartsville WTNV – Tiptonville WTNX – Lawrenceburg WTRB – Ripley WUCZ – Carthage WUSY – Cleveland WVFB – Celina WWLX – Lawrenceburg WWYN – Mckenzie WXOQ – Selmer WYSH – Clinton WYTM-FM – Fayetteville WZLT – Lexington

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

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