WLEY-FM

WLEY-FM (107.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Regional Mexican format. Licensed to Aurora, Illinois, USA, the station serves the Chicago, Rockford area. The station is currently owned by Wley Licensing, Inc. and features programming from ABC Radio .

History

The station has been locally owned since its 1965 sign on as WMRO-FM. They played adult contemporary music of some sort over the years, but did go through various formats over the many years. The station was known as WAUR-FM by 1970. In 1986 WAUR was sold to Beasley Broadcasting. They continued as an adult contemporary station, serving the Aurora area at that time. By the late 1980s, the call letters were changed to WYSY-FM "Y-108 - Doin' It In The 'Burbs!" The AM sister station WMRO (AM) 1280, became WYSY-AM, simulcasting Y-108, and it later became WBIG (AM). For a while in 1993, the station played Adult Top 40 days and hard rock/metal at night.

In late 1993, WYSY was sold to Cox Communications to form a duopoly with classic rock WCKG-FM 105.9. The station switched to a "Greatest Hits of the '70s" format in 1994. Initially, they played all types of '70s music such as easy listening, soft rock, pop, disco, hard rock, classic rock, soul, novelty, and others. By 1995, the station was mixing in popular '60s and '80s hits. The music narrowed to a blend of pop rock, pop, disco, soft rock, and soul.