WKEG
Appearance
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Transmitter coordinates | 42°36′17″N 82°54′40″W / 42.60472°N 82.91111°W |
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Website | relevantradio |
WKEG (1030
Class A
station on this frequency.
By day, WKEG is powered at 5,000
FM translator stations which can be heard around the clock: 94.3 W232CA and 104.7 W284BQ in Detroit, 94.1 W231CV in Holly and 103.1 W276DB in Rochester Hills.[2]
History
The station
signed on the air on October 26, 1988Family Life Radio). It took the call sign WUFL.[1] WUFL carried Family Life's Christian radio
programming.
. It was the seventh station owned and operated by Family Life Communications (commonly referred to as FLR or In November 2022, Family Life Radio announced would sell WUFL and its four
FM translators to Relevant Radio, which is a Catholic broadcaster based in Wisconsin. The deal included the land that houses WUFL's transmitter but not the call sign, which would be transferred to another Family Life Radio property.[3][a]
The sale to Relevant Radio was consummated on February 28, 2023, at a price of $3.1 million. On March 2, 2023, AM 1030 changed its call sign to WKEG. In June 2023, Family Life Radio announced it would be buying an FM station in Detroit, 93.1 WDRQ.[5] The sale was completed and the WUFL call letters were reassigned to the Detroit FM station.
Notes
References
- ^ a b "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/WKEG
- ^ Venta, Lance (November 23, 2022). "Relevant Radio Acquires Detroit AM & Four Translators". RadioInsight. Retrieved August 1, 2023.
- ^ Venta, Lance (August 1, 2023). "Family Life Radio Launches On 93.1 Detroit". RadioInsight. Retrieved August 1, 2023.
- ^ RadioInsight.com "Family Life Broadcasting System Acquires 93.1 WDRQ Detroit" retrieved Sept. 25, 2023
External links
- WKEG in the FCC AM station database
- WKEG in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- W231CV in the FCC FM station database
- W231CV at FCCdata.org
- W232CA in the FCC FM station database
- W232CA at FCCdata.org
- W276DB in the FCC FM station database
- W276DB at FCCdata.org
- W284BQ in the FCC FM station database
- W284BQ at FCCdata.org