WMAY

WMAY

City of license	Springfield, Illinois
Broadcast area	Springfield IL area
Frequency	970 kHz
Format	News/Talk
Power	1000 watts day 500 watts night
Class	B
Facility ID	38348
Transmitter coordinates	39°51′42.00″N 89°32′32.00″W / 39.86167°N 89.54222°W / 39.86167; -89.54222
Owner	Long Nine, Inc.
Webcast	Listen live
Website	www.wmay.com

WMAY (970 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a format serving the Springfield, Illinois, USA area. The station is currently owned by Long Nine, Inc.^[1]

The station is known for live and local talk throughout the weekdays. That weekday lineup features Jim Leach (also the station's news and program director) from 6-9am, Ray Lytle from 9am-noon, The Dave Ramsey Show from noon-3, The Kramer Show with Keith Kramer from 3 to 6, and former Springfield alderman Frank McNeil from 6-7pm. On Saturdays, the station airs live local "self help" programming. Danny Daniels hosts Big Band Sunday, filled with standards from the 40's and 50's on Sunday Mornings from 6am - 11am.

Its principal competitor is WTAX.

WMAY played country before switching to an oldies format in the early 1990s and then to its current talk format in 1995. Its managing company, Mid-West Family Broadcasting, owns local stations WNNS-FM, WQLZ-FM, and WLCE-FM, known as "Alice @ 97.7".

The WMAY callsign has been in use at least since 1930, when it was a station in St. Louis, Missouri.

References

1. ^ "WMAY Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WMAY. 

External links

• WMAY's website
• Query the FCC's AM station database for WMAY
• Radio-Locator Information on WMAY
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for WMAY