WUSW (FM)

WUSW

City	Taylorville, Illinois
Broadcast area	Springfield, Illinois
Branding	US 92.7
Slogan	20 in a Row Country
Frequency	92.7 MHz
First air date	September 8, 2015 (as WUSW) April 16, 1993 (as WQLZ) 1967 (as WTIM-FM)
Format	Country
ERP	11,500 watts
HAAT	147 meters (482 ft)
Class	B1
Facility ID	38346
Transmitter coordinates	39°38′38″N 89°30′51″W / 39.64389°N 89.51417°W / 39.64389; -89.51417Coordinates: 39°38′38″N 89°30′51″W / 39.64389°N 89.51417°W / 39.64389; -89.51417
Former callsigns	WTIM-FM (1967–1975) WEEE (1975–1983) WTJY (1983–1993) WQLZ (1993-2015) WUSW-FM (2015)
Owner	Mid-West Family Broadcasting (Long Nine, Inc.)
Sister stations	WQLZ, WMAY, WNNS
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	us927.com

WUSW (92.7 FM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the city of Taylorville, Illinois. Its effective radiated power is 11,500 watts and is owned by Mid-West Family Broadcasting.

History

The station went on the air in 1967 as 3,000-watt WTIM-FM, playing beautiful music and featuring local high school sports events as an extension of WTIM (AM 1410, now WIHM) which was a daytimer. From 1975 to 1983, the station was WEEE (known as "Triple E" and later "W-3-E") with a variety of contemporary music formats, starting as adult contemporary then changing to "Rock 'n' Gold" (an AC/oldies hybrid) and then to album oriented rock. As an AOR station, the station first began to attract an audience in the Springfield market and was drawing much of its advertising revenue from there.

WEEE was sold in 1984 and the new owners changed the format to country music as WTJY. The station was sold again two years later and the format became satellite-fed AC. In 1990, WTJY took on a dayparted format with AAA/Rock mix during the day and a hard-rock/Heavy Metal mix in the evenings. The station also featured the "Todd & Joe morning show" with Todd Ellis and Joe Swank, both of whom went on to work at WKCM/WLME in Hawesville, KY/Tell City, Indiana after the station sale in 1992. The station also featured Rick Elliott music director and afternoon host, later left to become Operations Manager of WJVO/WJIL in Jacksonville, IL, Shawn Balint who went by the handle of "Doc Rock".

Ownership of WTIM and WTJY was separated in 1992 (thanks to deregulation making it possible for Springfield "clusters" to add a station, with WTJY going to Mid-West Family Broadcast Group to become part of the company's Springfield station cluster as WQLZ. The station also was granted a power increase to 11,500 watts and a tower relocation into Sangamon County to get city-grade coverage of Springfield without relinquishing city-grade coverage of Taylorville. Ellis went to the new WQLZ for a time and Balint remained with WTIM. Meanwhile, WTIM later gained a new FM sister to serve Taylorville in 94.3 WMKR, and moved to its current frequency of 97.3 in the late 1990s while a Catholic religious broadcaster took over the AM 1410 signal. In the 1990s, WQLZ was a radio station for the central Illinois area with live DJs 24 hours a day, and featuring "Ray Lytle's Morning Disaster" hosted by Ray Lytle with his brother Bodine, Jim the photographer, Mikey, Shawn Balint resurfaced on the 92.7 frequency, Rocky, Mychelle the Weather Babe, Brando and Rich, and featuring, Marvin, Larz, and others. In 2006, Balint went on to the St. Louis market, Mikey left radio, and in November 2007, Jim the Photographer died in his home.^[1] WQLZ is owned by Mid-West Family Broadcasting in Spaulding, Illinois.

On August 24, 2015, WQLZ began temporarily simulcasting on WLCE, which became the new home for WQLZ on September 4th. On that date, 92.7 began stunting with TV theme songs as "TV 93" and changed its call sign to WUSW-FM. On September 8, 2015, 92.7 flipped to country as "92.7 US Country". The call sign WUSW was briefly moved to 1670 AM in Madison, WI, until WUSW-FM assumed the call sign on September 22, 2015.^[2]

References

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WUSW

Radio-Locator information on WUSW

Radio stations in the Springfield, Illinois market

By FM frequency	88.1 88.3 89.7 90.5 91.1 91.9 92.7 93.9 94.3 95.1 96.7 97.7 98.7 99.7 100.5 101.9 103.7 104.5 105.5 106.1 107.1 107.5 107.9

By AM frequency	970 1050 1180 1240 1370 1410 1450

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400

By callsign	W296CJ W298AP WCVS WDBR WDZ WDZQ WFMB WFMB-FM WIBI WIHM WJVO WLDS WLFZ WLJX-LP WLLM WLUJ WLWJ WMAY WMKR WNNS WQLZ WQNA WQQL WSCT WSMI-FM WTAX WUIS WUSW WXAJ WXJ75 WYMG

Nearby radio markets Bloomington Champaign Decatur Peoria St. Louis Quincy/Hannibal See also List of radio stations in Illinois

Country radio stations in the state of Illinois

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By FM frequency	92.1 92.3 92.7 92.9 93.7 93.7 94.1 94.3 94.3 94.9 95.1 95.3 95.5 95.7 95.9 96.3 96.5 97.3 97.3 97.5 97.7 98.3 98.3 98.5 99.1 99.3 99.5 99.5 99.9 100.1 100.3 100.3 100.5 100.9 101.3 101.7 101.7 101.9 102.1 102.1 102.3 102.3 102.3 102.5 103.7 103.7 104.1 104.5 104.9 105.5 105.9 105.9 106.1 106.5 107.3 107.7 107.9

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

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