WSWT is a radio station

Radio station

Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...

 broadcasting an Adult Contemporary format. It is licensed to Peoria, Illinois

Peoria, Illinois

Peoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, in the United States. It is named after the Peoria tribe. As of the 2010 census, the city was the seventh-most populated in Illinois, with a population of 115,007, and is the third-most populated...

 in the Peoria radio market. The station is currently owned by Monterey Licenses, LLC. Mornings are hosted by Randy Rundle and Stacy Campbell. Traffic conditions are reported by Ken Zurski from CEFCU Traffic One.

History

For many years WSWT was a beautiful music

Beautiful music

Beautiful music is a mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in American radio from the 1960s through the 1980s...

 station using the "W-Sweet" slogan. The station was quite successful with the format and often was atop the Peoria ratings. Walter Thurman was a long time announcer at the station. Beginning in the 1980s the station gradually evolved into a soft adult contemporary station and then to the adult contemporary station that is the format today.

External links

• "The Peoria Plague" (on Archive.org) — a radio drama that aired on the station in the early 1970s