FM Technical Profile: WOWL

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Station Name:

Fun 91

Frequency:

91.9

Format:

Variety / Adult Contemporary, Religious

Transmitter Location:

[map] [street view] Due east of Corinth, Mississippi on County Road 200 (Farmington Road), just east of County Road 177.

Power (ERP):

18 kW

Antenna:

Omnidirectional

Antenna HAAT:

548 feet

Other Information:

60 dBu protected contour map, from the FCC.

:
PS-CORINTH CROSSROADS
Time-[?]
Text-CHEVROLET BUICK GMC CROSSROADS WOWL | CROSSROADSGM.NET
PTY-Adult Hits

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[Image] Radio's RDS text display as seen on an Insignia HD portable.  From September 2015.
[Image] RDS display on an AT&T Insite phone, showing the PS (station name) and Radio Text fields as well as the station format. From June 2019.
[Image] RDS display on an AT&T Insite phone, but via the translator W225AB in the Florence area, from May 2019.

[Studio] Fun 91's studios as seen on Street View in downtown Iuka, Mississippi. 

// W225AB Florence
// W272CE Killen

Owner:

Southern Community Services, Inc.

History:

This station, with its eclectic mix of music on a non-commercial channel, got started in 1999, when it came on the air as WOWL.  Those calls were previously on a TV channel in Florence (now WHDF).  The station's RDS data has been used in the past to send "shout outs" and hellos to listeners, as well as send the station's request line phone number.

On 21 August 2021 a tornado struck Iuka, taking this station and several others off the air.  It returned to the air shortly afterwards.

In late 2022, Michael Brandt's Southern Broadcasting LLC purchased WXWX Marietta, MS and WWMR Saltillo, MS, which triggered a series of format changes and shifts in Northeast Mississippi.  WWMR's Christian programming was dropped, with some of it moving to WOWL.  Much of the weekend programming is now religious.  The station is now also the home for Booneville High School Sports.

In January 2023 it was observed that the station's website had launched a new Alternative Rock channel called 91 X, and advertised it as being available soon on "WOWL-HD3",  implying the station is planning to install an HD transmitter at some point.