WHIL-FM (91.3 FM), is a public radio station in Mobile, Alabama. It primarily features classical music programming in the daytime, along with other genres in the evenings. WHIL-FM serves the extreme southern tip of Alabama along the state's portion of the Gulf Coast (and some counties to the north, in southwestern Alabama), as well as the Gulf Coast counties of southeastern Mississippi and extreme northwestern Florida.
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WHIL-FM (91.3 FM), is a public radio station in Mobile, Alabama. It primarily features classical music programming in the daytime, along with other genres in the evenings. WHIL-FM serves the extreme southern tip of Alabama along the state's portion of the Gulf Coast (and some counties to the north, in southwestern Alabama), as well as the Gulf Coast counties of southeastern Mississippi and extreme northwestern Florida.
The station maintains studios on the campus of Spring Hill College, a Jesuit institution that started the station and holds the broadcast license, although a non-profit community board now manages the station on a day-to-day basis. WHIL-FM's signal travels in about a 45-mile radius. Nearby competing public radio stations include WMAH-FM, the Biloxi outlet of the Mississippi Public Broadcasting network; and WUWF-FM in Pensacola, Florida.
WHIL-FM had perhaps one of the most inauspicious beginnings of any public radio station in the U.S. Only one week after its first...
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