WNIQ – Sterling. WNIW – LaSalle. WNIE – Freeport.
You hear those three stations mentioned every hour on WNIJ – maybe you’ve even recited them along with us. They’re known as “repeaters” and they carry WNIJ’s signal to more people in northern Illinois.
In 1998, WNIW LaSalle at 91.3 FM, and WNIQ-Sterling at 91.5 FM signed on the air. WNIE Freeport started broadcasting at 89.1 FM a year later. This also opened an opportunity for the news department to pursue stories important to a much larger region: essentially all of northern Illinois west of Chicago.
It also opened up some quiet time for WNIJ’s engineers to think during the long drive to one of the repeaters when the call comes in the middle of the night that there’s something wrong.
So thanks to all of our listeners near Freeport, LaSalle, and Sterling who use and support WNIW, WNIQ, and WNIE. You’re definitely worth the drive.
