WKLU
WKLU (101.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Brownsburg, Indiana, and serving the Indianapolis metropolitan area. The station is an affiliate of K-LOVE.
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| City | Brownsburg, Indiana |
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| Broadcast area | Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Frequency | 101.9 MHz |
| Branding | K-LOVE |
| Slogan | Positive and Encouraging |
| Programming | |
| Format | Contemporary Christian |
| Affiliations | K-LOVE |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Educational Media Foundation |
| History | |
First air date | 1992 |
Former call signs | WQFE (1992-2009) |
Call sign meaning | We're KLUve (K-Love is the current branding) |
| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 54289 |
| Class | A |
| ERP | 4,000 watts |
| HAAT | 110 meters |
| Links | |
| Webcast | Listen Live! |
| Website | klove.com |
History
WKLU was signed on the air in 1992 as WQFE, utilizing an approximately 300' tower, located in Hendricks County. The station played easy listening music.
In September 1994, WQFE changed to an oldies format that flopped.
In 1999, Bruce "The Radio Pirate" Quinn took over his family owned station, the call letters were changed to WKLU and branded as "The New Kool 101.9". The format evolved to a loose variant of classic rock specializing in songs that Indianapolis radio stations didn't play, including songs from jam bands. In 2004 the Quinns sold the station to a Miami radio entrepreneur Russ Oasis, who moved the tower to its current location and reformatted the station to a more commercially viable Oldies format. At midnight on December 4, 2007, WKLU flipped to an oldies format based on the hits of the 1960s and 1970s as "The New Oldies 101.9".
On July 15, 2009; WKLU was sold by Russ Oasis to Educational Media Foundation and the station switched to K-LOVE (Contemporary Christian) on September 15, 2009 at 6PM, following a goodbye show held by the staff and DJs of Oldies 101.9 (the last song on Oldies was "Thank You for Being a Friend" by Andrew Gold.) [1] While the K-LOVE format is national, the station broadcasts public affairs programming for Brownsburg and Hendricks County on select Sunday nights. In addition, the WKLU studios are used for the K-LOVE morning show which is heard nationwide.
References
External links
- WKLU in the FCC's FM station database
- WKLU on Radio-Locator
- WKLU in Nielsen Audio's FM station database