1420 Khz, Old Saybrook, CT.
Contributor Larry Kratka recalls:
"WLIS had their studios in a split-level ranch house with the single stick in the backyard...next door to a Howard Johnsons restaurant. Rt. 9 wasn't even completed yet. WLIS was owned by the Trantino family, a husband and wife team that ran the station with a popular format. I believe it was a daytimer but I'm not sure. I did the morning shift, cranking up the AM transmitter in the basement and hitting the airwaves. The station had a main studio and production studio...both upstairs in the upper portion of the house. From what I understand, the studios...house and all, to another location alongside the Connecticut Turnpike. "
In the late '80s the station decided to increase its daytime power and add night service. This required the use of a directional antenna system and a new tower site was chosen adjacent to Rt. 9 a mile or so north of the studio. Mike Rice, Lee Steel and Hillis Holt were the engineers who designed and built the facility.
