WILL

'WILL' is the callsign of the three public broadcasting stations owned by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and operated by its Division of Broadcasting. The TV station started operation in 1955.

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Radio

Trivia

References

See also

External links

Radio

In addition to operating the TV station directly, the university operates two radio stations directly: WILL (AM) at 580 kHz and WILL-FM at 90.9 MHz. Both are members of NPR and affiliates of Public Radio International and American Public Media.
WILL (AM) signed on in 1922; from 1922 to 1928 it had the callsign WRM.
WILL-FM, first licensed in 1941 as WIUC and changed to WILL-FM in 1954, was the first university FM license in the United States. WILL-FM has translators on 106.5 in Danville and 101.1 in Champaign.

Trivia

★ In 1970, WILL-TV provided some of its programming to ABC affiliate WJJY-TV in Jacksonville, as a public service measure. WJJY would fold in 1971. In 1983, channel 14 would return to the airwaves, as PBS station WSEC.

★ WILL-TV received its largest bequest, $1 million (USD), from Lois Dickson, who had been a contributor to the station for the thirty years before her death at the age of 95 in 2004.

References

★ WILL-TV Viewer Leaves $1 Million to Station

See also

★ Illini Media - university-controlled not-for-profit organization that runs radio station WPGU

★ Prairie Fire (TV series), a 15+ season running television news magazine and documentary program produced by WILL-TV.

External links

★ WILL home page

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