WCLS (97.7
FM) is a
radio station
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licensed to
Spencer, Indiana
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Spencer is part of the Bloomington, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Are ...
, United States, the station serves the
Bloomington, Indiana
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area with a
Classic Hits
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format. The station is currently owned by Mid-America Radio of Indiana.
History
The station went on the air as WLSO on March 14, 1983. On August 18, 1988, the station changed its call sign to WSKT. It again changed its call sign on October 23, 2005, to its present name of WCLS.
The call letters were previously assigned to a station in
Columbus, Georgia
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(now
WIOL), to a station in
Detroit
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,
Michigan
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(now
WYCD
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), and to a station in
Oscoda, Michigan
Oscoda ( ) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Iosco County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The CDP had a population of 916 at the 2020 census. The community is located within Au Sable Township and Oscoda Towns ...
(now
WWTH
WWTH (100.7 FM), Oscoda, Michigan, is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format to the Oscoda, Tawas, Alpena area of northeastern lower Michigan. The station is known as "Thunder Rock", The Sunrise Side's Classic Rock."
History
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