WRYT
Translator(s) | 92.7 W224DC (Caseyville) |
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Website | covenantnet.net |
WRYT is a
Because WRYT shares the same frequency as "
WRYT's studios are located on Hampton Avenue in
History
WRYT went on the air November 9, 1987,[1] but while the station promoted itself as WRYT in local media, its callsign was legally WHRC (standing for original owners Horizon Radio Corporation) until February 4, 1988, when it exchanged call letters with TV channel 46 in Norwell, Massachusetts, which founder Bob Howe also owned. As a commercial station, WRYT broadcast adult standards music and news programming aimed at listeners in Edwardsville and Madison County, Illinois.
The station was sold in 1992 to the Hometown Broadcasting Company, owned by Tom Lauher, of Creve Coeur, Missouri. Five years later, he sold the station to Covenant founder Tony Holman, whom he found "more serious and interested and less on a fishing expedition".[2] Covenant Network began operating WRYT, its first station on May 1, 1997.
References
- ^ Berger, Jerry (November 11, 1987). "Edwardsville Station Latest to Catch Wave". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
- ^ McGuire, John M. (July 29, 1998). "WRYT-AM(en)". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. E1. Retrieved June 10, 2019. (Continued)
External links
- WRYT in the FCC AM station database
- WRYT in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- The Covenant Network
- WRYT / KHOJ Programming Schedule
38°47′58″N 89°54′00″W / 38.79944°N 89.90000°W