is the callsign of the three
Public Broadcasting stations owned by the
University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign and operated by its Division of Broadcasting. The TV station started operation in 1955.
In addition to operating the TV station directly, the university operates two radio stations directly: WILL (AM) at 580
KHz and WILL-FM at 90.9
MHz . Both are members of
NPR and affiliates of
Public Radio International and
American Public Media .
WILL (AM) signed on in 1922; from 1922 to 1928 it had the callsign WRM.
WILL-FM, first licensed in 1941 as WIUC and changed to WILL-FM in 1954, was the first university FM license in the United States. WILL-FM has translators on 106.5 in
Danville and 101.1 in
Champaign .
- In 1970, WILL-TV provided some of its programming to ABC affiliate WJJY-TV in Jacksonville , as a public service measure. WJJY would fold in 1971 . In 1983, channel 14 would return to the airwaves, as PBS station WSEC .
- WILL-TV received its largest Bequest , $1 million ( USD ), from Lois Dickson, who had been a contributor to the station for the thirty years before her death at the age of 95 in 2004.
- Illini Media - university-controlled not-for-profit organization that runs radio station WPGU
- Prairie Fire (TV Series) , a 15+ season running television news magazine and documentary program produced by WILL-TV.
