WSLI

WSLI is a radio station which is part of the Smile FM radio network. The callsign WSLI was first used as a television station that broadcast from January 1953 on analog channel 12 from Jackson, Mississippi. WSLI Channel 12 was acquired in 1954 by the owners of rival television station WJTV, and was merged into WJTV in 1955. Thereafter the callsign WSLI identified a radio station that served the Jackson, Mississippi market at least into the 1970s. The current WSLI began operation in July, 2008. With a transmitter located just west of Belding, the station covers portions of the Grand Rapids, and Ionia, Kent, and Montcalm counties. WSLI broadcasts the Smile FM programming from flagship station WLGH in Lansing. WSLI is owned by Smile FM under the official name of Superior Communications. The original Construction Permit granted on July 15, 2005 called for 10 kW from a short 98' tower. After having an application to modify to 14 kW dismissed by the FCC due to a small overlap in coverage area of WCSG, a construction permit for 11.5 Kw directional signal from a 249-foot tower was approved on May 2, 2007.