WBGL (91.7 FM) is a

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station licensed to

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and owned by the

University of Northwestern – St. Paul University of Northwestern (UNW) is a private Christian university in Roseville, Minnesota. History It was established in 1902 as ''Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School'' by William Bell Riley, a pastor at First Baptist Churc ...

. Studios are located in Champaign.

Relay stations

WBGL is relayed by 9 full-power FM stations and three low-power FM translators. Their combined footprint provides at least secondary coverage from the outer southern suburbs of

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to the Illinois side of the

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area to southeastern Missouri.

Translators

Northwestern Media

WBGL and Peoria-based sister station

WCIC WCIC is a Christian adult contemporary music station in Peoria, Illinois. It is licensed to the nearby suburb of Pekin, Illinois, Pekin and owned by the University of Northwestern – St. Paul. Studios are located in northwest Peoria. Repeaters ...

are part of

Northwestern Media Northwestern Media is the Christian radio ministry of the University of Northwestern – St. Paul, an evangelical university in Roseville, Minnesota. Northwestern Media operates two radio networks serving listeners primarily in the Midwestern Un ...

, a ministry of University of Northwestern - St. Paul. Between them, the two stations and their satellites and repeaters cover almost two-thirds of Illinois, as well as portions of

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, and

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. In August 2019, the Illinois Bible Institute reached an agreement to sell the entire WBGL/WCIC New Life Media Network to the

, which owns and operates a network of

contemporary Christian Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. Contemporary history is either a subset of the late modern period, or it is o ...

stations and a network of

Christian talk and teaching Christian radio is a Christian media radio format that focus on programming with a Christian message. Many such broadcasters play contemporary Christian music, though many programs include sermons, radio dramas, as well as news and talk programm ...

stations, for $9,901,558.34, plus $200,000 in third-party underwriting announcements for the seller's non-broadcast, non-profit activities for one year. The closing date was November 1, 2019.

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* Assemblies of God Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States BGL BGL Radio stations established in 1982 Champaign, Illinois 1982 establishments in Illinois Pentecostalism in the United States Northwestern Media BGL {{Illinois-radio-station-stub