WCEV
City | Cicero, Illinois |
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Broadcast area | Chicago |
Branding | We're Chicagoland's Ethnic Voice |
Frequency | 1450 kHz |
First air date | 1926 |
Format | Ethnic |
Power | 1,000 watts unlimited |
Class | C |
Facility ID | 42137 |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°49′57″N 87°42′20″W / 41.83250°N 87.70556°WCoordinates: 41°49′57″N 87°42′20″W / 41.83250°N 87.70556°W |
Former callsigns | WXOL, WVON & WRLL |
Owner | Migala Communications Corporation |
Website | www.wcev1450.com |
WCEV (1450 AM) is a time brokered radio station licensed to Cicero, Illinois, USA, the station serves the Chicago area. The station is currently owned by Migala Communications Corporation.[1] It airs an ethnic programming format.
Since 1979, the 1450 AM frequency allocated to Cicero has been shared by two separately owned stations, after two companies that had filed competing license applications for the facility reached an agreement to divide the broadcast week between them. WCEV is on the air from 1PM to 10PM Monday through Friday; Midway Broadcasting, which has operated as WXOL, WVON and WRLL, broadcasts on 1450 during the remaining hours.
References
- ↑ "WCEV Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
See also
External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WCEV
- Radio-Locator Information on WCEV
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WCEV
- "It's a whole new day for WVON at 1690 AM " (Chicago Sun-Times, August 16, 2006)
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