WRIF (101.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an Active rock format. Licensed to Detroit, Michigan, USA, the station serves the Detroit area. The station is currently owned by Greater Media The signal can also be heard as far as Flint, Port Huron, Jackson, Chatham-Kent and Lambton County, Ontario, Northern Toledo and sometimes as far south as Delaware, OH. WRIF is a grandfathered Class B station with a signal equivalent to 92,000 watts at 500ft...
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WRIF (101.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an Active rock format. Licensed to Detroit, Michigan, USA, the station serves the Detroit area. The station is currently owned by Greater Media The signal can also be heard as far as Flint, Port Huron, Jackson, Chatham-Kent and Lambton County, Ontario, Northern Toledo and sometimes as far south as Delaware, OH. WRIF is a grandfathered Class B station with a signal equivalent to 92,000 watts at 500ft. WRIF's transmitter is located in Southfield, Michigan near the intersection of Ten Mile and Northwestern Highway. WRIF transmits its signal from the same tower that WXYZ Channel 7 broadcasts from.
It was 1948 when WXYZ-FM signed on at 101.1 MHz in Detroit. For most of the station's early years, the station was simply a simulcast of WXYZ-AM 1270 (now WXYT-AM). That changed in 1966 when the FCC decreed separate programming for at least half of the broadcast day on FM stations that had previously been simulcasts of their AM sisters. WXYZ-FM...
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