WLEN

WLEN

City	Adrian, Michigan
Broadcast area
Slogan	"Lenawee's Local News Station"
Frequency	103.9 MHz
First air date	June 9, 1965
Format	Adult Contemporary, News, Sports
ERP	3,000 watts
HAAT	91 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	37019
Callsign meaning	LENawee County
Owner	Lenawee Broadcasting Company
Website	wlen.com

WLEN (103.9 FM) is a radio station in Adrian, Michigan, broadcasting a full-service adult contemporary format with a heavy emphasis on local news, weather and sports.

WLEN studios

The station began broadcasting in 1965 as the first FM radio station in Lenawee County, and has been owned by the Koehn family (d/b/a Lenawee Broadcasting Company) since its inception. Over the years the station's music has evolved from a mix of MOR and country music to exclusively adult contemporary with hits from the mainstream AC and Hot AC formats, with oldies played on Fridays during "Friday Flashbacks." Like many other AC stations, WLEN plays continuous Christmas music between Thanksgiving and Christmas, taking a break on Fridays for the station's regular "Friday Flashbacks" programming of oldies from the 1950s through the 1980s.

WLEN features ABC Entertainment Network radio news on the hour. All music programming is locally hosted (locally automated during overnight hours) with the exception of two weekend specialty shows: Magic of the 80's on Saturday nights and the weekend version of the John Tesh Radio Show on Sunday nights.

Other WLEN features include national and local newscasts, "Classified" (a Tradio-style feature), "Viewpoint" (a Saturday-morning phone-in talk show hosted by Dale Gaertner, Program Director), and weekly specialty features focusing on neighboring communities such as Tecumseh, Onsted, Blissfield, Hudson, the Irish Hills area, and Deerfield.

WLEN hosts a number of popular DJs, including Kristina Kidney, Joe Johns, Kristin Mahan and Mike Reynolds. Kidney can be heard during the morning show, Johns during the afternoon show, Mahan during the Noon and 5PM News and information hours and Reynolds during the night shift. Other notable personalities include sports broadcasters John Koehn, Steve Barkway, Gabriel Schray, Chris Renwick and Patt Hayes. Koehn has broadcast Adrian High School Football for over 40 years. Barkway has been the acting Sports Director for over a decade. Schray recently replaced him as the play by play for Adrian College Football. The station also features a popular Tejano music show, "Radio Picoso", on Sunday afternoons, hosted by Herbey Atkinson.

The station is owned and operated by the Koehn family, with Julie Koehn acting as the General Manager and President of the station currently.

WLEN began transmitting in HD Radio in the spring of 2015. As of January 2016, the station airs a delayed simulcast of the analog and HD-1 signal on its HD-2 channel.

Lenawee Broadcasting Company also owns translator W243AD 96.5 FM in Adrian, which it purchased from Spring Arbor University (which had previously used it to relay its WSAE 106.9 FM) in November 2014. W243AD is currently on the air relaying WLEN.

Sources

Michiguide.com - WLEN History

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WLEN

Radio-Locator information on WLEN

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WLEN

Radio stations in South Central Michigan including Adrian, Coldwater, Hillsdale, and Jackson

By FM frequency	970 1340 1450 1490 1510 1540 1590

By fM frequency	89.3 89.5 90.1 91.1 91.3 92.1 93.3 94.1 94.7 95.3 96.1 96.7 97.7 98.5 100.3 101.5 101.9 102.5 103.7 103.9 105.3 106.9 107.9

By callsign	KTGG W268CA W270CJ W279BP WABJ WBCY WBZV WCKZ WCSR WCSR-FM WCVM WIBM WJKN WJKN-FM WKHM WKHM-FM WLEN WLKI WMTR-FM WNWN-FM WPCJ WQTE WSAE WTVB WVAC-FM WWDK WYBA

Nearby radio markets Ann Arbor Battle Creek Detroit Fort Wayne Grand Rapids Kalamazoo Lansing South Bend Southwestern Ontario Toledo See also List of radio stations in Michigan Ohio Indiana

Adult contemporary radio stations in the state of Michigan

Stations	WARD – Petoskey WCRZ – Flint WCSR – Hillsdale WCSR-FM – Hillsdale WCZY-FM – Mount Pleasant WFMK – East Lansing WGHN-FM – Grand Haven WGRT – Port Huron WHNN - Bay City WION – Ionia WKQS – Negaunee WLDR-FM – Traverse City WLEN – Adrian WLKM – Three Rivers WLXT – Petoskey WMQT – Ishpeming WMTE-FM – Manistee WNIC – Dearborn/Detroit WNIL – Niles WOEZ – Onaway/Cheboygan WQEZ – Glen Arbor WSAG – Linwood WSAM – Saginaw WSRW-FM – Grand Rapids WTGV – Sandusky WTRV – Walker WWSN- Whitehall WZNL – Norway

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Michigan

Coordinates: 41°54′11″N 83°59′13″W / 41.903°N 83.987°W / 41.903; -83.987

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