WCIL-AM Signed on the air in 1946 as a daytime-only station with personalities such as Jimmy Bowen, Bluegrass Roy and others in a second floor studio at about 215 W. Main St. in Carbondale. At that time to get the AM license they were pressured by the FCC to also sign on an FM station. They kept the FM on the air for about a year and then signed it off the air since but at that time, nobody listened to FM. So in 1964 Paul F. McRoy WCIL's then owner foresaw the potential of FM and applied for a new FM license. The license was approved and WCIL-FM signed on in 1968 and allowed broadcasting after local sunset when WCIL was required to sign off. WCIL-AM And WCIL-FM simulcast the same programming on both stations. It was announced in July 2018, that WCIL-FM would return as the radio home for
Southern Illinois University Men's basketball and
football. WCIL-FM was the first radio for Saluki Athletics starting in the late 1970s lasting for several years. The radio voice of the Salukis for football, & Men's basketball is Mike Reis. The color commentator for football is Gene Green, and for men's basketball it is Greg Starrick. On August the 16th of 2021, WCIL-FM celebrated their 45th anniversary. ==Ownership==