WLUN

WLUN
City Pinconning, Michigan
Broadcast area Bay City-Midland-Saginaw
Branding ESPN 100.9
Slogan Your Local Sports Leader
Frequency 100.9 MHz
First air date November 1983
Format Sports radio
Power 2,600 watts
HAAT 151 meters
Class A
Facility ID 52616
Transmitter coordinates 43°50′46″N 84°05′32″W / 43.84611°N 84.09222°W / 43.84611; -84.09222
Callsign meaning LUN = "Loon"
(in reference to "Great Lakes Loons")
Former callsigns WYLZ (1999-2008)
WMJK (1995-99)
WBTZ (1992-95)
WMJT (1990-92)
WLFS (1987-90)
WWRM (1984-87)
WFXZ (1983-84)
Affiliations ESPN Radio
Great Lakes Loons
Owner Michigan Baseball Foundation
(Michigan Radio Communications, LLC)
Webcast Listen Online
Website ESPN1009.com

ESPN 100.9-FM (WLUN) is a radio station broadcasting a sports radio format in Pinconning, Michigan, USA, owned by the Michigan Baseball Foundation (owner of the Great Lakes Loons), under the licensee name of Michigan Radio Communications.

WLUN has broadcast a variety of different formats since signing on in 1983, including country music, adult contemporary, and classic hits. The station is fondly remembered by some in the Tri-Cities market for its time as Top 40/album rock station WFXZ, "Foxy 101," in the early 1980s. As WYLZ, 100.9 FM and its former sister station, WILZ, were known together as "Wheelz 104.5 and 101" from 1999 to 2007.

In June 2007, WYLZ was sold by Citadel Broadcasting (along with ten other stations) to The Last Bastion Station Trust, as part of ABC Radio's absorption into Citadel. Upon ending the simulcast, WYLZ switched to a satellite-fed country format ("Mainstream Country" from Dial Global) under the "Thunder Country" moniker. Despite the programming changes, WYLZ continued to air play-by-play of Great Lakes Loons baseball during the summer of 2007. The satellite country format was a stopgap measure to keep the station on the air until it could be sold to a new owner and debut a permanent format. WILZ 104.5 maintains its classic rock format and Citadel ownership.

On March 24, 2008, WYLZ announced it would change formats to all sports radio, with programming from ESPN Radio, under a new moniker, "ESPN 100.9", effective March 25. Also, the Loons acquired the station from Last Bastion, with FCC approval. (). On March 31, 2008 WYLZ changed their call letters to WLUN.

With the debut of WLUN, the sports-talk format returned to the Tri-Cities area for the first time since 1440 AM WMAX discontinued its simulcast of WTRX in Flint.

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