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WDKL began life on November 6, 1960, as WBRB-FM, the FM counterpart of Mount Clemens AM station WBRB (1430 AM) and owned by Malrite Communications Group. [4] WBRB-FM was among the first stations to be directly built directly from the group-up by Malrite, which was originally a 50-50 partnership between Milton Maltz and Robert Wright; Wright divested his stake in the company by 1971.
The station signed on the air on December 6, 1961. [3] It was founded by broadcaster Ross Mulholland, who had worked at WJR and several other area stations. The original construction permit for the station bore the call sign WQTI, similar to Mulholland's easy listening-formatted AM station, WQTE (560 AM, now WRDT), but the station was never on the air with those call letters.
On August 24, 2017, Crawford Broadcasting acquired a Detroit AM station at 1200 kHz. It put the WMUZ call sign on that station, requiring 103.5 to add the "-FM" suffix to its call letters. As many of the Christian talk and teaching programs moved over to the AM station, WMUZ-FM increased its hours playing Christian Contemporary music.
Until late June 2005, WMXD was the Detroit affiliate for the popular syndicated Tom Joyner morning show. In June 2005, Radio One relaunched its "Kiss FM" gold-based Urban AC format on the 105.9 frequency (now WDMK ), moving 105.9's hip-hop format to 102.7 (now WDKL ) and grabbing Joyner for mornings on 105.9.
Former names of the network include "The WXYT 1270 Detroit Lions Radio Network", "The WKRK Detroit Lions Radio Network", and "The Live 97.1 Detroit Lions Radio Network" (WKRK-FM is WXYT-FM's former callsign, and Live 97.1 is one of its former brandings). WXYT-FM was the Lions' flagship from 2004–2015.
Many of the paid shows were ethnic. This included many programs targeted toward Detroit's African-American community. One of WJLB's most popular programs during its early years was the Interracial Goodwill Hour, a jazz and R&B show hosted by later Cleveland radio legend Bill Randle.
The schedule included the "Old 'n' Gold" rare oldies show, "Safe and Secure Detroit," a show dedicated to public safety and the Sunday big band/nostalgia showcase "Somewhere In Time". WDTR changed its call sign to WRCJ on July 1, 2004, and the station cut back its broadcast time to 8 AM to 5 PM weekdays only.
On Air with Ryan Seacrest is a weekday syndicated radio program hosted by Ryan Seacrest.It was launched in 2004 as a drive time show at the same time on Los Angeles Top 40 station 102.7 KIIS-FM as the television show with the same name, although Seacrest had hosted a similar show in afternoon drive time on sister station Star 98.7 KYSR from 1995 until 2003.