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Overview
WYLD-FM (98.5 FM) is an urban adult contemporary station licensed to New Orleans, Louisiana. Listeners know it as “98.5 WYLD.” It began broadcasting in 1965.
License and signal
- Call sign
- WYLD-FM
- Frequency
- 98.5 FM
- Format
- Urban adult contemporary
- On-air name
- 98.5 WYLD
- City of license
- New Orleans, LA
- Market
- New Orleans, LA
- Licensee
- iHM Licenses, LLC
- Power
- 100,000 watts
- Station class
- C0
- First on air
- 1965
- FCC facility ID
- 11972
- Website
- wyldfm.iheart.com
- FCC public file
- publicfiles.fcc.gov
- Wikipedia
- Read the article
Its lineup draws on Premiere Networks. The FCC license is held by iHM Licenses, LLC. It has used the WYLD-FM call letters since May 1979.
Online, it is at wyldfm.iheart.com. New Orleans is in the New Orleans, LA market, where local newspapers include The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate and Gambit Weekly. Sister stations include WFFX, WNOE-FM, WODT, WQUE-FM and WRNO-FM.
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WYLD-FM at a glance
- Frequency
- 98.5 FM
- On air as
- 98.5 WYLD
- Format
- Urban adult contemporary
- Licensed to
- New Orleans, LA
- Market
- New Orleans, LA
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