[3] WCIL (AM) signed on the air in 1946 as a daytime-only station with personalities such as Jim Bowen, Bluegrass Roy and others in a second floor studio at about 215 W. Main St. in Carbondale.

[4] McRoy would go on to sell both WCIL-FM and AM to Dennis Lyle, now the President of the Illinois Broadcasters Association.

[5] It was announced in July 2018, that WCIL-FM would return as the radio home for Southern Illinois University Men's basketball and football.

The radio voice of the Salukis for football, & Men's basketball is Mike Reis.

The color commentator for football is Gene Green, and for men's basketball it is Greg Starrick.

In 2004, Zimmer Radio Group sold their stations in southern Illinois (including WCIL-FM), along with Cape Girardeau, Poplar Bluff and Sikeston, Missouri, to Mississippi River Radio, a subsidiary of Max Media, LLC.