Language(s) Polish Facility ID 38333 City of license Patchogue Owner Polnet Communications Branding Polskie Radio | Class B Frequency 1580 kHz Format World music Area Long Island, Connecticut | |
Broadcast area Nassau-Suffolk (Long Island) and parts of Southern Connecticut First air date December 1, 1951 (1951-12-01) (as WPAC) Power 10,000 watts (day)
500 watts (night) | ||
WLIM (1580 AM. "Polskie Radio") is a radio station licensed to Patchogue, New York and is one of eight radio stations owned by Polnet Communications. It broadcasts a World Ethnic format featuring Polish language programming 24 hours a day. Its transmitter site & former studios are located at 45 Pennsylvania Ave in Medford, New York.
History
The station went on the air on December 1, 1951 as WPAC. Its first studios and offices were located in the Mills Building on Main St. in Patchogue. Transmitting facilities were located on the former Bailey's Mill property on West Ave. in Patchogue. In the early hours of February 10, 1956 fire destroyed the Mills Building which housed the WPAC studios at the time. The station was able to continue broadcasting from their transmitter site off the Patchogue River, until new studios were built at 31 W Main St in Patchogue. The station would become the highest powered station on Long Island, when it increased power from its original 250 watts to 1000 watts in February 1956. Rick Sklar who, while at New York City's WABC, was one of the originators of the Top 40 radio format, began his career at WPAC.
The station changed call letters to WSUF in July 1972 and went dark for 3 years beginning in 1975. The station returned to the air in 1978 with the new call letters WYFA. The station was assigned the WLIM call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on July 13, 1981 after being purchased by Long Island Music Broadcasting. After becoming WLIM, the station began a Big Band/Standards format that ran for almost 20 years.