Alabama Public Radio (WHIL)

WHIL-FM (91.3 FM), is a public radio station in Mobile, Alabama. It primarily features classical music programming in the daytime, along with other genres in the evenings. WHIL-FM serves the extreme southern tip of Alabama along the state's portion of the Gulf Coast (and some counties to the north, in southwestern Alabama), as well as the Gulf Coast counties of southeastern Mississippi and extreme northwestern Florida.WHIL-FM first broadcast on September 5, 1979. Only a week later, Hurricane Frederic struck the Alabama Gulf Coast, rendering the station silent for some time thereafter due to transmitter and tower damage. From those rough beginnings, the station grew to provide one of the few non-commercial radio services available to the region with programming not designed for religious proselytization. These days, it uses the branding "Fine Arts Radio for the Gulf Coast," a summary of its mission and scope.Of the five public radio stations and networks located in Alabama, WHIL is the only one not operated by an agency or educational institution of the state. It was the fourth chronologically, after Huntsville's WLRH, Birmingham's WBHM, and Troy's WTSU; only Tuscaloosa (Alabama Public Radio) came later, in 1982.