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Radio station in Danville, Illinois From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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WDNL (102.1 FM, "D102") is a radio station broadcasting a Hot AC format. Licensed to Danville, Illinois, the station serves East-Central Illinois and West-Central Indiana, and is owned by Neuhoff Corp., through licensee Neuhoff Media Danville, LLC.[2]

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On February 1, 2024, Neuhoff Media sold radio stations in Danville and Decatur IL to Champaign Multimedia Group for $2 million and has since closed in May 2024.[3]

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History

  • 1938 WDAN is signed on-air by Northwestern Publishing Company and broadcast from the Hotel Wolford in downtown Danville.
  • 1953 WDAN-TV would sign-on, owned by Northwest Publishing Company to serve the nearby Champaign-Urbana television market. In 1960, WDAN-TV would be sold to Plains Broadcasting which would later become WICD-TV.
  • 1967 WDAN-FM would sign on from its studios at 1500 Washington Street in Danville.
  • 1971 WDAN-AM/FM was purchased by First Danville Radio owned by Max Shafer, Bill Shop, and John Eckert.
  • 1977 First Danville Radio was purchased by Sangamon Broadcasting of Springfield.
  • 1986 Sangamon Broadcasting tried to sell WDAN and WDNL to Indiana Broadcaster David Kiester for $1.5 Million, but the purchase never closed.
  • 1987 WDAN and WDNL was sold by Sangamon Broadcasting to Majac Inc. owned by Marc and Jack Steenbarger of Canton Ohio for $1.2 Million. Majac would expand into the Flint Michigan market purchasing WWCK A/F in 1989.
  • 1989 Majac Inc. sells WDAN and WDNL to Geoffrey Neuhoff of Neuhoff Communications for $2.35 Million. The stations join Neuhoff's other radio stations in Springfield, WCVS-AM and WFMB-FM.
  • 1996 Neuhoff Communications would purchase what would become sister station WRHK for $500,000 from Rollings Communications of Danville.
  • 2024 Longtime owner Neuhoff Communications sells WDAN, WDNL and WRHK to Champaign Multimedia for $2 Million, which is owned and operated by Community Media Group. The stations join Champaign-Urbana based WDWS-AM, WDWS-FM, WHMS, WKIO and The News-Gazette.
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