WEXL

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WEXL
City of license	Royal Oak, Michigan
Broadcast area	[1] (Daytime) [2] (Nighttime)
Branding	WMUZ Gospel Station
Slogan	Detroit's Choice for Gospel
First air date	August 19, 1926
Frequency	1340 kHz
Format	Religious; Preaching/Gospel
Power	1,000 watts
Class	C
Callsign meaning	We Excell
Former callsigns	WAGM (1926-1931)
Owner	Crawford Broadcasting
Website	http://www.wexl1340.com/

WEXL is an Urban Gospel station at 1340 AM licensed to Royal Oak, Michigan and broadcasting in the Detroit area. It's known as "The Gospel Station" and owned by Crawford Broadcasting with WMUZ 103.5 FM and WRDT 560 AM.

Contents 1 History 2 Weekdays 3 Saturdays 4 Sundays 5 Sources 6 External links

[edit] History

What is now WEXL took to the air August 19, 1926 with the calls WAGM. The WEXL ("We Excel") calls were adopted in 1931. The station carved out a niche with local, block-programmed variety programming, including country music aimed at men who migrated from the southern United States to work in Detroit's automobile assembly plants. After a brief flirtation with Top 40, WEXL expanded its country music programming to a 24-hour format in 1963, the first station in metro Detroit to do so. The station was successful for a number of years; a 1966 Billboard magazine poll gave WEXL 86% of the country music audience in Detroit (see http://www.keener13.com/images/billboard070266.gif). However, the station got competition in 1970 when WJBK-AM 1500 flipped from Top 40 to hit-based country as WDEE (now WLQV), and in 1974 WEXL dropped country music in favor of religious programming. Current owner Crawford Broadcasting (CBC) acquired WEXL in 1997 and changed the station's format from a combination of Christian and motivational talk to Urban Gospel. WEXL is now branded with the moniker "The Gospel Station", an alteration from the former "The WMUZ Gospel Station", in an attempt to distinguish it from it's sister station, WMUZ, and maintain it's unique identity in CBC's company of stations.

WEXL now broadcasts in HD Radio and can be heard on the internet at the station's website: http://www.wexl1340.com/.

[edit] Weekdays

• 12:00 am Nite Lite with Val Monroe
• 5:00 am Gospel Sounds
• 5:30 am Meeting the Needs of God's People
• 5:45 am Rhema Church Pastor Mable Allen
• 6:00 am Gospel Sounds
• 6:15 am Shiloh Deliverance Church Pastor Bobby Bracy
• 6:30 am Gospel Sounds
• 6:45 am Enjoying Everyday Life Joyce Meyer
• 7:00 am Gospel Sounds
• 7:45 am First Tabernacle COGIC Pastor Alfred Knight
• 8:15 am Seth Temple Pastor Phillip Jackson
• 8:30 am New St. Paul Tabernacle Bishop P.A. Brooks
• 8:45 am Gospel Sounds
• 9:00 am Miracle Revival Hour David Paul
• 9:15 am Power of Ba'ra Miracle Pastor Donald Coleman
• 9:30 am Gospel Sounds
• 11:30am Women in Ministry
• 12:00 pm High Praise Cathedral of Faith Bishop Haddon
• 12:15 pm Great Faith Ministries Bishop Wayne T. Jackson
• 12:30 pm Trinity Deliverance Church Pastor Washington
• 1:00 pm Gospel Tabernacle
• 1:15 pm Healing For The Nations Pastor Clarence King
• 1:30 pm Rhema For Today Kenneth Hagen
• 1:45 pm Concepts of Faith Charles Capps
• 2:00 pm Hope Evangelical Ministry Bishop Frankie Young
• 2:15 pm The Randi Myles Show
• 5:00 pm In the Spirit with Rev. Mother
• 8:00 pm Keys Financial
• 8:30 pm Deeper Life Gospel Center
• 8:45 pm Gospel Sounds
• 11:00 pm Nite Lite with Val Monroe

[edit] Saturdays

• 12:00 am Nite Lite with Val Monroe
• 5:00 am True Love Evan. Ministry Pastor Clara Brown-Draughn
• 6:00 am Gospel Sounds
• 8:00 am Women in Ministry
• 8:30 am VLC Technical Training
• 8:45 am Gospel Sounds
• 9:00 am Gordon Burgess / In the House Mortgage Ins. of Michigan
• 10:00 am Gospel Sounds
• 10:15 am Worldwide Fellowship Church Bishop Berry
• 10:45 am Remnant Worshipers
• 11:00 am Abundant Word of Life
• 12:15 pm Keep the Word
• 12:30 pm Gospel Sounds
• 1:00 pm God's Prescription of Daily Living Zina Lawson
• 1:30 pm Wise Virgins Ministries
• 2:00 pm Detroit Gospel Com.
• 2:15 pm Gospel Sounds
• 3:00 pm Rose of Sharon / Hannah's Breakthru
• 3:30 pm NJT Hour of Power
• 4:00 pm Gospel Sounds
• 4:30 pm Apostolic Voice of Truth
• 5:00 pm Gospel Sounds
• 8:00 pm Rhema Int'l Deliv. Church
• 8:15 pm Gospel Sounds
• 9:00 pm Strictly Biblical Pastor Emery Moss, Jr.
• 10:00 pm Gospel Sounds

[edit] Sundays

• 12:00 am Second Chance Financial
• 1:00 am Gospel Melodies Louversey Green
• 5:00 am Gospel Sounds
• 5:45 am All in His Hands
• 6:00 am Gospel Sounds
• 7:30 am New Testament Pastor Nick Edwards
• 7:45 am Kingdom Power Evang. Annie Laura Harvey
• 8:00 am Power of Faith H.L. Pastor Butts
• 8:30 am North Broadway Church of Christ Dr. James Thompson
• 9:00 am Mt. Elliott Street COGIC Pastor Charles Boyd
• 9:15 am Gospel Church of Faith Pastor Anthony Henry
• 9:30 am Redeemed World Wide Ministry
• 9:45 am Gospel Sounds
• 10:00 am Miracle Tabernacle Virgil Thomas
• 10:15 am Good Tidings Ministry Elder Walter Farr
• 10:30 am Greater Apostolic Faith Bishop Nehimiah Smith
• 11:00 am Gospel Sounds
• 12:00 pm Pure Word
• 12:30 pm Gospel Sounds
• 1:30 pm Russell Woods Church of Christ Pastor Edward Cribbs
• 2:00 pm Gospel Sounds
• 2:15 pm Church of God of Detroit Rev. Otis Wilson Jr.
• 2:30 pm New Hope Tebernacle Bishop Lockhart
• 3:00 pm Gospel Sounds
• 4:00 pm Evangelical World Ministry
• 4:30 pm Oak Grove AME Church
• 5:00 pm Gospel Sounds
• 5:30 pm New St. Paul Baptist Pastor Tolan Morgan
• 6:00 pm Friendship Baptist Church Dr. Samuel White
• 7:00 pm Hartford Memorial Baptist Pastor Charles Adams
• 8:00 pm Gospel Sounds
• 9:00 pm New Salem Baptist
• 10:00 pm Gospel Sounds
• 11:00 pm Nite Lite with Val Monroe

[edit] Sources

• Michiguide.com - WEXL History

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for WEXL