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the FM on the air for about a year and then signed it off the air since, at the time, nobody listened to FM. In 1964, Paul F. McRoy, the station's then-owner, foresaw the potential of FM and applied for a new FM license. The license was approved and WCIL-FM signed on in 1968 and allowed broadcasting after local sunset when WCIL was required to sign off. WCIL-AM-FM simulcast the same programming on both stations. The format was easy listening music and news. A year before CIL-FM was born, Top 40 music was played at night after 10:00. The FCC required AM-FM simulcasts to split programming. So, plans were made to split WCIL AM and FM. The AM and FM split programming and became separate stations on August 16, 1976. Before this split of the stations, WCIL-FM would sign off the air at 2a.m. and sign back on at 6a.m. Once the stations split, CIL-FM Rockin' Radio was created. It was on the air 24 hours a day and never signed off since except for technical problems. McRoy would go on to sell both WCIL-FM and AM to Dennis Lyle, now the
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