Broadcast area New Orleans Slogan We're WYLD for Jesus First air date 1948 | Branding "AMen 940" Frequency 940 kHz Format Urban Gospel | |
WYLD is a traditional Urban Gospel outlet based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The iHeartMedia, Inc. stations broadcasts at 940 kHz with 10 kW-Daytime/500 W-Nighttime power. Its transmitter is located in New Orleans' Algiers district, and its studios are located downtown.
History
When it signed on in 1948 the station's call sign was WTPS and was owned by the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper and affiliated with the Mutual Broadcasting system. It then became WYLD. WYLD was a very successful Urban Contemporary outlet in the 1960s and 1970s before it shifted its format to sister station WYLD-FM. The AM would later evolve to a community-oriented Urban Adult Contemporary format in the 1970s to its current format in the 1990s.
References
WYLD (AM) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA