WLIT-FM

WLIT-FM 93.9 FM, ("93.9 My FM") is a radio station licensed to Chicago, Illinois, featuring a format of Mainstream AC music. The station is currently owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications until September 2014). WLIT has studios located at the Illinois Center complex on Michigan Avenue in Downtown Chicago, and it broadcasts from a 4kw transmitter based atop Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) with a frequency of 93.9 FM. WLIT-FM broadcasts with its maximum allowed power.

History

93.9 FM in Chicago had been known as WEBH (from the Edgewater Beach Hotel) from 1958 through 1970. WEBH changed to WWEL sometime in 1970. The station broadcast "beautiful music", an easy listening format with mostly instrumentals and a couple of soft vocal songs per hour.

WWEL was "Well" from mid-1970-1972, to describe the easy listening format that was broadcast on 93.9 FM. It was also that way long before. WWEL changed call letters to WLAK in 1972. At that time Viacom bought WLAK. WLAK continued to play mostly instrumental easy listening but increased vocals to about four an hour. In 1983 WLAK switched to Soft AC playing 99% vocal songs and virtually no instrumentals. Core artists were Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand and others. WLAK was very successful in the format, actually one of the first in the nation preceding its sister station WLTW in New York. WLAK changed call letters in 1989 to WLIT, and rebranded as "93.9 The Lite."