WLIF
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WLIF (101.9 FM) is a radio station located in Baltimore, Maryland. It is currently owned and operated by CBS Radio. Its transmitter and studios are located in Towson, Maryland.
The station's origins date back to the Beautiful music era, which was popular during the late 1950s and early 1960s. At that time, the stations call letters were WTOW. Its frequency was at 1300 AM (taken by today's ESPN-1300 WJFK-AM, an all-sports station). At that time, it was one of the highest-rated stations in Baltimore, playing the smooth vocal stylings of Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole and Barbra Streisand, along with soothing instrumentals from Percy Faith and Floyd Cramer.
On December 31,1971, one day before all cigarette advertising was banned on radio and television, WLIF was born. It was called "The Beautiful Place In Your Life" FM-102. By the 1980s, WLIF began playing more soft rock hits, such as those by Linda Ronstadt, The Beatles, The Temptations and Elton John.
In 2001, the station changed nicknames again, and it is now known as "101.9 Lite FM." Today its lineup consists of soft rock hits during the day and love songs at night. In 2005, it added the popular syndicated show Delilah to its schedule, which now airs at midnight, seven days a week. On the weekends, WLIF features The Flashback Weekend" playing the greatest hits of the sixties and seventies, reaching into the Oldie market that was left without a local radio station once WQSR switched over to a Jack FM format.
In addition, WLIF (along with Magic 95.9 WWIN) also played jazz music during the weekends for many years. WLIF continued to play jazz until 2004, when WSMJ became Baltimore's full-time Smooth Jazz station.
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| FM Radio Stations in the Baltimore Market | |
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| By frequency: | 88.1 | 88.9 | 89.7 | 90.5 | 91.1 | 91.5 | 92.3 | 93.1 | 95.1 | 95.9 | 97.5 | 97.9 | 99.1 | 100.7 | 101.9 | 102.7 | 103.1 | 103.7 | 104.3 | 105.7 | 106.5 | 107.9 |
| By callsign: | WBJC | WEAA | WERQ | WFSI | WHFC | WHFS | WIYY | WKHS | WLIF | WLZL | WPOC | WQSR | WRBS | WRNR | WRYR | WSMJ | WTMD | WWIN | WWMX | WXCY | WYPR | WZBA |
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See also: List of AM radio stations in the Baltimore market
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