WCAI

WCAI, WNAN, WZAI
City WCAI: Woods Hole, Massachusetts
WNAN: Nantucket
WZAI: Brewster, Massachusetts
Broadcast area Cape Cod and Islands
Frequency WCAI: 90.1 MHz (also on HD Radio)
WNAN: 91.1 MHz
WZAI: 94.3 MHz
First air date WCAI: September 25, 2000 (2000-09-25)[1]
WNAN: March 15, 2000 (2000-03-15)[2]
WZAI: June 7, 2005 (2005-06-07)[3]
Format Non-commercial; National Public Radio
ERP WCAI: 12,500 watts
WNAN: 2,300 watts
WZAI: 4,700 watts
HAAT WCAI: 73.5 meters (241 ft)
WNAN: 64 meters (210 ft)
WZAI: 113.4 meters (372 ft)
Class WCAI: B1
WNAN: A
WZAI: A
Facility ID WCAI: 8566
WNAN: 8600
WZAI: 162458
Transmitter coordinates WCAI: 41°26′16″N 70°36′50″W / 41.43778°N 70.61389°W / 41.43778; -70.61389 (WCAI)
WNAN: 41°17′6″N 70°8′39″W / 41.28500°N 70.14417°W / 41.28500; -70.14417 (WNAN)
WZAI: 41°46′31″N 70°0′38″W / 41.77528°N 70.01056°W / 41.77528; -70.01056 (WZAI)
Callsign meaning WCAI: Cape (Cod) And Islands
WNAN: NANtucket
WZAI: variation of WCAI
Owner WGBH Educational Foundation
Webcast Listen Live
Website capeandislands.org

WCAI (Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 90.1), WNAN (Nantucket, 91.1) and WZAI (Brewster, 94.3) are National Public Radio member radio stations serving the Cape Cod and Islands area of southeast Massachusetts. They broadcast primarily news and information programming and are owned by the WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston.

The station was founded by independent radio producer Jay Allison and his organization, Atlantic Public Media, with construction and operation duties assigned to WGBH, and first went on the air in 2000; Atlantic Public Media has also produced local programming for the station. (WNAN went on the air on March 15, 2000) Coverage for WCAI and WNAN didn't reach all of Cape Cod and the nearby islands, however, and in 2005 the third signal, WZAI, went on the air. In addition, an online stream of the station is available.

In 2007, the station won the prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, often called the Pulitzer Prize of broadcast journalism, for a 20-part series called Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands. The series was produced and reported by Sean Corcoran, and it highlighted numerous poverty issues in a region that often is thought of as playground for the rich. WCAI was the only radio station to win the award that year.

Apart from being owned by WGBH, there is no connection between the Cape and Islands NPR stations and WNCK in Nantucket, which formerly simulcast WGBH's primary radio service and later WCRB, a classical music station owned by WGBH. WCAI itself carries WCRB's programming on its second HD Radio channel, which was added in late 2013 after WCAI boosted its power.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Fybush, Scott (October 2, 2000). "Spinning the Dial in Connecticut". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
  2. ↑ Fybush, Scott (March 17, 2000). "Clear Channel Spins Again". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ Fybush, Scott (June 13, 2005). "A Great Day in Alpine, N.J.". North East RadioWatch. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ "WCAI Increases Transmitter Strength, Reaching more than 200k New Listeners". WCAI. January 28, 2014. Retrieved February 6, 2014.

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