FM Technical Profile: WSLY
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- Station Name:
- —
- Frequency:
- 104.9
- Format:
- Sports Talk
- Transmitter
Location:
- [map]
[street
view] On Powell Tanks Loop Road, east off CR-9, south of the
Ward community.
- Power (ERP):
- 50 kW
- Antenna:
- Omnidirectional
- Antenna HAAT:
- 492 feet
- Other
Information:
- 60 dBu protected
contour
map, from the FCC.
- :
PS-SLY1049
Time-[?]
Text-SLY1049 SLY1049.com…
PTY-Rock
PI-WSLY-FM
-
Mono
-
-
HD-2: Adult Rhythm and Blues
"100.1 Da Bomb"
// W261CS Meridian, MS
HD-3: Classic Hits
"100.9 Alex FM"
// W265BO Meridian, MS
- :
PS-ALEX FM
Time-[?]
Text-MERIDIANS CLASSIC HITS
PTY-[?]
PI-[?]
- More Information:
- [FCC]
- [FCCdata]
- [Radio-Locator]
- [Wikipedia]
[Facebook]
For SLY 104.9
[Twitter] For SLY
104.9
[Facebook] For
100.1 Da Bomb
[Facebook] For
100.9 Alex FM (Meridian)
[Facebook] For
Slyrock.com
[Website] For Slyrock.com
[Studio]
Street View imagery of the studio building on Highway 11 in York.
- Owner:
- Grantell
Broadcasting
- History:
- Grantell
Broadcasting (William B. Grant) put this station on the air in the
fall of 1977 as the FM sister to their AM, WYLS. The calls are
merely the AM's, but reversed. When it signed on, it was a
Class A on 99.3 MHz, running 3 kW via a Collins 830-E1A, feeding a
Jampro JSCP-3 three-bay antenna. Early on the station had a
Top 40 format.
Towards the end of the 80's, the station moved to a black-targeted
format, but also mixing in some country. By 1990 it was doing
Urban Contemporary.
The station received a permit to relocate to 104.9 MHz in 1992,
boosting power to 50 kW in the process. It took them two years
to get it on the air, finally signing on in the winter of 1994,
albeit in glorious mono. The station stayed urban until around
2006 or 2007, when they tried a Jack FM Variety Hits format. A
flip to Sports Talk with the Fox Sports network happened in
2009.
For many years, the station had a translator in Tuscaloosa to expand
their coverage, but that was discontinued the mid-to-late
2000s. They picked up a new translator in 2012, and over the
course of a few years slowly walked it from York to Meridian,
Mississippi. It relayed the Fox Sports programming until late
June 2018, when the station debuted a HD digital subchannel with
Classic Hip-Hop, which began feeding the translator in
Meridian. As of October 2019, the translator is apparently
relaying the HD4 subchannel, which is a simulcast of the main
channel's ESPN sports format. That ended in November 2019,
when the HD4 and translator flipped to a Classic Hits format as
"Alex FM", modeled after WALX in Selma, Alabama.
In September 2020 the station was reported to be airing an "Eclectic
Rock" format as "SLY 104.9", later as "Sly Rock".
The station dropped the Rock format for Sports Talk in early
December 2023. The Slyrock music format continues on the
website and app.
In early November 2024 it was reported that the "100.1 Da Bomb"
Hip-Hop format had tweaked into an Adult Rhythm and Blues
format. This comes on the heels of the "96.3 Da Bomb" station
in Selma relaunching as a gospel station in that market.