It features news and talk programming in morning and afternoon drive times, classical music in middays and evenings, and the BBC World Service in late nights.
[2] WHIL's signal covers an area centered at the southern part of Alabama along the Gulf of Mexico Coast, stretching from Pascagoula, Mississippi, to Pensacola, Florida.
In the mid-to-late 1990s, Spring Hill College officials took exception to some news reports on National Public Radio about subjects such as abortion rights and homosexuality.
Because these seemed to run counter to the moral positions of the Roman Catholic order of the Society of Jesus, the parent organization of the college, WHIL-FM discontinued airing NPR news programs for several years.
Protests from disappointed listeners prompted WHIL-FM to restore Morning Edition, but the station continued to preempt All Things Considered in favor of classical music and Public Radio International's Marketplace.