WFEL-LP is a Full Service

Full service (radio format)

The full service radio format consists of a wide range of programming. Mostly found on the AM band, the format can be found on a handful of FM stations...

 formatted broadcast

Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...

 radio station

Radio station

Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...

 licensed to and serving Antioch, Illinois

Antioch, Illinois

Antioch is a village in the Antioch Township of Lake County, Illinois, United States. The population was 14,430 at the 2010 census. Antioch is part of the Chicago metropolitan area.- Prior to incorporation :...

. WFEL-LP is owned and operated by Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Programming

The station plays a mix of informational, religious, and entertainment programs along with a healthy dose of music from all genres, all family friendly in nature.

WFEL broadcasts two live shows durings the weekdays. "America's Gold Top 40" and "Modern Mix" are aired in the afternoons and evenings respectively. These shows are broadcast from the studios of WFEL.

WFEL plays a wide variety of Old-time radio

Old-time radio

Old-Time Radio and the Golden Age of Radio refer to a period of radio programming in the United States lasting from the proliferation of radio broadcasting in the early 1920s until television's replacement of radio as the primary home entertainment medium in the 1950s...

 programs each evening such as Fibber McGee and Molly

Fibber McGee and Molly

Fibber McGee and Molly was an American radio comedy series which maintained its popularity over decades. It premiered on NBC in 1935 and continued until its demise in 1959, long after radio had ceased to be the dominant form of entertainment in American popular culture.-Husband and wife in real...

, The Great Gildersleeve

The Great Gildersleeve

The Great Gildersleeve , initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first Introduced to...

, Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....

, The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked Texas Ranger who, with his Native American companion Tonto, fights injustice in the American Old West. The character has become an enduring icon of American culture....

, Casey, Crime Photographer

Casey, Crime Photographer

Casey, Crime Photographer was a media franchise, in the 1930s through the 1960s...

, and The Whistler

The Whistler

The Whistler was an American radio mystery drama which ran from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955. It was sponsored by the Signal Oil Company: "That whistle is your signal for the Signal Oil program, The Whistler." The program was adapted into a film noir series by Columbia Pictures in...

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WFEL also broadcasts services, sermons and devotions of Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church live to the Antioch area.

External links

• Faith 99 Online