WFIL
WFIL (560 AM) is a radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, with a Christian radio format consisting of teaching and talk programs. Owned by Salem Media Group, studios and transmitter facilities are shared with co-owned WNTP (990 AM) in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania.
For the Philadelphia television station that was previously WFIL-TV, see WPVI-TV.
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- United States
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- United States
560 kHz
AM 560 WFIL
- Salem Media Group
- (Salem Communications Holding Corporation)
March 18, 1922
- WFI (1922-1935)
- WFIL (1935-1989)
- WEAZ (1989-1993)
- WBEB (1993)
- WPHY (1993-1994)
Combination of original call, WFI, and consolidated station WLIT
52193
B
5,000 watts
WFIL transmits fulltime with 5,000 watts, using different directional antenna configurations during the day and at night. Daytime coverage includes metropolitan Philadelphia and portions of the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, plus parts of New Jersey and Delaware. Sister station WMCA in New York City, on the adjacent frequency of 570 kHz, also operates with 5,000 watts, and both stations must reduce their signals toward each other in order to avoid mutual interference.
Location
4548 Market St.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1948
Savery, Scheetz & Gilmour; Abraham Levy
Moderne
July 28, 1986