WLWI (AM)
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| City | Montgomery, Alabama |
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| Branding | News Radio 1440 |
| Frequency | 1440 kHz |
| Repeater(s) | 95.1-3 WXFX-HD3 |
| First air date | April 30, 1930 |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 66909 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°18′24″N 86°16′35″W / 32.30667°N 86.27639°W |
| Former callsigns | WSFA (1930-1957) WHHY (1957-1999) |
| Affiliations | Westwood One News |
| Owner |
Cumulus Media (Cumulus Licensing LLC) |
| Sister stations | WHHY-FM, WLWI-FM, WMSP, WMXS, WXFX |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | newsradio1440.com |
WLWI (1440 AM, "News Radio 1440") is a radio station licensed to serve Montgomery, Alabama, USA. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and the license is held by Cumulus Licensing, LLC. The WLWI studios are located on the 3rd floor of The Colonial Financial Center in downtown Montgomery, and the transmitter tower is in Montgomery's southside.
It broadcasts a news/talk radio format to the Montgomery metropolitan area. Notable local programming includes "The Capitol Buzz" with attorney and former judge Mark Montiel, "Decisions" with retired Army Sergeant Kevin Elkins, and "The Patriot Preacher" with minister Caleb Colquitt. Notable syndicated programing includes Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, The Sean Hannity Show, and Michael Savage. Overnight, the station broadcasts the syndicated Red Eye Radio. The station also carries all 140 games of the local Minor League Baseball team the Montgomery Biscuits.
This station, the oldest radio station in Montgomery and the fourth oldest in Alabama, began broadcasting as WSFA on April 30, 1930. Montgomery's next oldest, WCOV (now WGMP), wouldn't begin broadcasting until February 1939. The radio station's callsign, intended to promote Montgomery's city air field, stood for "With the South's Finest Airport". A formerly-affiliated Montgomery television station (then WSFA-TV, now simply WSFA) still holds this historic callsign.
WSFA was originally operated under the ownership of the Montgomery Broadcasting Company, Inc., a partnership between local businessmen Howard Pill and Gordon Persons. Persons, who stepped down as president of the company in 1939, would go on to serve as the forty-third governor of Alabama from 1951 to 1955.
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