WRYT

WRYT is a radio station broadcasting out of Edwardsville, Illinois with a Catholic format. It broadcasts on AM frequency 1080 kHz and is part of the Covenant Network.

WRYT
CityEdwardsville, Illinois
Broadcast areaGreater St. Louis
Frequency1080 kHz
Programming
FormatCatholic
Ownership
OwnerCovenant Network
KHOJ (AM)
History
First air date
November 9, 1987
Former call signs
WHRC (1987–1988)
Technical information
ClassD
Power500 watts (day)
20 watts (nighttime)
380 watts (critical hours)
Translator(s)92.7 W224DC (Caseyville)
Links
Websitecovenantnet.net

Because WRYT shares the same frequency as "clear channel" station KRLD in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, the station broadcast during the daytime hours only until April 9, 2014.

WRYT's studios are located on Hampton Avenue in St. Louis, while its transmitter is located near Edwardsville.

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. 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
  1. Berger, Jerry (November 11, 1987). "Edwardsville Station Latest to Catch Wave". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
  2. McGuire, John M. (July 29, 1998). "WRYT-AM(en)". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. E1. Retrieved June 10, 2019. (Continued)


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