WXLY

WXLY (510 AM) is a commercial radio station licenced to Lennox Falls, Xtol Island, serving the Caillou Cities. It airs a all news format. The station's transmitter and studios are located at Ponacan Beach, next to the entrence (the carpark is on the other side of the entrence). It is owned by Sherman-Bryce Broadcast Group, which owns WXLY-TV (channel 4) in Lennox Falls (which is located in the same building). It airs CBS News Radio. Its sisters with WXLY-TV and WXLY-FM, and is SBBG's official flagship stations (SBBG also has headquarters at WSHO/KENY/KGNT Three Rivers). Semi-satelites KENY and KGNT carry the same programs that 510 carrys, but do not simulcast WXLY newscasts, except CBS News is carried on WXLY/WSHO/KENY/KGNT. Local news resources for 510 are given by WXLY-TV.Since 1976, the station has went under the branding "XLY" (which its TV sister use's). It mostly goes under the branding 51 XLY. It also uses the timer sound provided by SBBG (see below)

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The station says after the jingle "WXLY News Time X:XX From Norah Q Lawton". It has the NLRN, IRN, INR, Palm Quilter Network on secondary. It also has studios under the Flipout Trampoline Park in Lennox Falls (people use the entrence at the back of the park to get into the studios). The station is Xtol Island's primary EAS primary entry point system. They had taken the XLY logos from the TV station under the same callsign.

History

In 1939, Post Morton and Grand Company wanted to build a radio station on 510 and 78.9 at Lennox Falls, under the calls WXL. The application was denied by the FCC, because WXL was already in use in nearby Southland (although it served Three Rivers). The station is known as WOOL today.

The station signed on September 24, 1940. The station was affliated with the CBS Radio Network (now defunct since 2017). In 1953 SBBG signed on WXLY-TV Channel 4. Since WXLY was a CBS affliate, WXLY-TV signed on as a CBS Television affliate. It also moved into the studios of WLHP-AM 565-FM 77.8-TV 36 of Arlandet/Southland (search page). In 1974 the station shared the XLY logos from channel 4, due to SBBG saying in a meeting "WXLY-TV and AM could use a XLY logo." The deal was accepted, and has been in use since then. There were 2 CBS affliates in the Lennox Falls/Three Rivers/Southland/Arlandet (Marine Valley) area. WLHP-TV 36 and WXLY-TV 4. WLHP/WXLY AM-FM-TV formed together to form the Marine Valley Network, a network of 6 CBS affliated stations. WXLY shared the 1023 frequincy with WARN. WLHP-WXLY moved studios to Three Rivers to build the MVN headquaters. The station branded as Newsradio 510/1023 XLYARN, "XLYARN" was used as a similar meaning on XLY, but ARN. XLY means "Xtol Lone Youth" (founding owner) and ARN means "Alone Road No" (former branding) or (Keep **WARN**ed of News In Lennox Falls) from its former branding. XLYARN was the owners of WXLY and WARN for 3 yrs, as SBBG wanted to low the newstalk market from 10 stations to 4 stations. WARN,WXLY,WNCB,WNTL were the remaing N/T stations in the Lennox Falls area. Also, a new TV station signed on in the Southland/Arlandet area, Channel 15, WPLA-TV (frequincy now occupied by WMPI-TV), created from WPLA AM 887 Southland/Arlandet. It was the preddesor to WLHP-TV 36, although it was located across the street. WPLA was a DuMont/20th Century Network/ABC/CBS affliate. Channel 15's transmitter fell onto WLHP-TV 36's transmitter, causing the station to go off the air.