WUWM
Public Radio - News - Talk | |
Affiliations | NPR Public Radio International American Public Media BBC World Service |
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Ownership | |
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History | |
First air date | September 24, 1964 |
Call sign meaning | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 4285 |
Class | B |
ERP | 13,500 watts |
HAAT | 289 meters (948 feet) |
Transmitter coordinates | 43°05′26″N 87°53′50″W / 43.09056°N 87.89722°W |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | wuwm.com |
WUWM (89.7
WUWM is a
Programming
WUWM airs programs such as , although some weekend NPR shows air on both stations at different times.
Each weekday, WUWM has an hour of local interviews and call-ins called Lake Effect. It is heard at noon and repeated most nights at 8 p.m. WUWM also airs some weekend music shows, including a weekly
History
WUWM
However, its signal was largely limited to the area around the UW-Milwaukee campus and Milwaukee's East Side. That changed in 1978, when WITI-TV 6 donated space on its tower. That gave WUWM a good signal around the city of Milwaukee and adjacent communities. It was originally limited to 1,500 watts due to a glut of stations on the lower end of the FM dial in the Chicago-Milwaukee-Madison axis. However, a change in FCC regulations gave priority to fully qualified public radio stations. It gradually increased its power to 15,500 watts, giving it a signal comparable to the other major stations in Milwaukee.
Its weekday schedule changed in 1988, going with all news, talk and information.[2] That was well before most NPR stations in large cities around the U.S. made a similar move, replacing weekday music shows with spoken-word programming.
In January 2010, WUWM's studios moved from the
The Chase Tower has studios, offices and production stations for recording upcoming shows and features.Until December 2013, the station broadcast using HD Radio technology. It operated an automated AAA station on its second HD digital subchannel, known as The Deuce. The HD transmitter broke down in December 2013, and WUWM opted not to replace it. According to the station's general manager at the time, Dave Edwards (who was also the chairman of the NPR board), the HD2 stream attracted minimal listenership over the air, and only 200 listeners per week online. With little outside of a small jump in audio quality on the main signal to justify the technology, station officials concluded it was not worth the effort to bring the HD transmitter back online.[4]
References
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/WUWM
- ^ History of WUWM, WUWM website. Retrieved on June 10, 2007.
- ^ "WUWM: STATION TOUR". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16.
- ^ Dudek, Duane (11 February 2014). "It's a streaming world — except when the stream is gone". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
External links
- WUWM official website
- WUWM in the FCC FM station database
- WUWM in Nielsen Audio's FM station database