WCIL (1020 A.M.) is a radio station broadcasting a news talk format as a simulcast of WJPF.

[2] 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 [1].

Later, WCIL moved the studios to a house at a location that is now the parking lot for the First United Methodist Church in Carbondale.

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

In December 2003, Mississippi River Radio, acting as Max Media LLC (John Trinder, president/COO), reached an agreement to purchase WCIL, WCIL-FM, WJPF, WOOZ-FM, WUEZ, WXLT, KCGQ-FM, KEZS-FM, KGIR, KGKS, KJEZ, KKLR-FM, KLSC, KMAL, KSIM, KWOC, and KZIM from the Zimmer Radio Group (James L. Zimmer, owner).