WDIY

WDIY

City	Allentown, Pennsylvania
Broadcast area	Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania
Branding	WDIY-FM
Slogan	"Lehigh Valley's Community NPR Station"
Frequency	88.1 MHz
Translator(s)	W229AO 93.7 FM W230AG 93.9 FM
First air date	January 8, 1995
Format	Community/public radio
Language(s)	English
ERP	300 watts
HAAT	257 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	36992
Transmitter coordinates	40°33′54.00″N 75°26′26.00″W / 40.5650000°N 75.4405556°W / 40.5650000; -75.4405556
Callsign meaning	Do It Yourself
Affiliations	National Public Radio
Owner	Lehigh Valley Community Broadcasters Association, Inc.
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	wdiy.org

WDIY (88.1 FM) is a community public radio station licensed to Allentown, Pennsylvania, with studios in Bethlehem. The station serves the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania and western Warren County in New Jersey.

WDIY has an air staff of over 100 volunteers and a paid management staff. It has been broadcasting since January 8, 1995. The station is licensed to Lehigh Valley Community Broadcasters Association, Inc., a nonprofit organization. The station's mission "is to engage the Lehigh Valley community through a wide-ranging exchange of music, arts, news and culturally diverse information."

While WHYY-FM in Philadelphia puts a grade B signal into Allentown and WVIA-FM in Scranton has long operated translators in Allentown and Bethlehem, the Lehigh Valley lacked an NPR station that specifically served it until WDIY's arrival.

In 2015, the station tripled the broadcast power of its main frequency at 88.1 FM from 100 watts to 300 watts.^[1]

Programming

WDIY's program schedule includes NPR's Morning Edition, Fresh Air with Terry Gross and All Things Considered weekdays, with classical music and adult album alternative music between the news shows. Weekday evenings feature a mixture of locally-produced public affairs programs as well as NPR's TED Radio Hour and On the Media. Weeknights and weekends, the station features a variety of music, including folk music, blues, electronic music, jazz, world music, alternative rock, classical music, avant-garde music and Indian music, as well as NPR's Weekend Edition and Ask Me Another.

Translators

WDIY began broadcasting on 88.1 FM at 100 watts, which was fairly modest for a full NPR member station. Even with its antenna on South Mountain at 843 feet above the average local terrain, the station's signal was for the most part limited to Lehigh and Northampton counties before its power increase in 2015. Easton, the area's third-largest city, was only receiving a grade B signal. For this reason, WDIY employed two translators. One, located at 93.9, serves the area around Easton, as well as western Warren County. The station's other translator at 93.7 serves the Trexlertown and Fogelsville areas in western Lehigh County.

Call sign	Frequency (MHz)	City of license	ERP W	Class	FCC info
W229AO	93.7 FM	Fogelsville, Pennsylvania	80	D	FCC
W230AG	93.9 FM	Easton, Pennsylvania	7	D	FCC

References

↑ http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/12/hear_the_power_wdiy-881_fm_tri.html

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Radio stations in the Allentown–Bethlehem–Easton, Pennsylvania market

By AM frequency	790 1100 1160 1230 1320 1400 1470 1600 1640

By FM frequency	88.1 89.3 89.5 90.3 91.3 91.7 92.7 93.1 93.7 93.9 94.7 95.1 96.1 96.9 97.1 99.3 99.9 100.7 102.5 103.5 104.1 104.9 (Easton) 104.9 (North Whitehall Township) 105.7 107.1 107.5

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.4

By callsign	W224AU W226AA W229AO W230AG W234AX W245AC W246AA W257AI W278AI W285DH W289AH WAEB WAEB-FM WBYN WBYN-FM WCTO WDIY WEEX WEST WGPA WHOL WJCS WJRH WLEV WLHI WLVR-FM WMUH WODE-FM WPNX700 WRFY-FM WSAN WTKZ WWPJ WWYY WXL39 WZZO

New York radio markets Albany–Schenectady–Troy Binghamton Buffalo–Niagara Falls Elmira–Corning Hudson Valley Nassau–Suffolk (Long Island) New York City Olean Plattsburgh Poughkeepsie Rochester Syracuse Utica–Rome Watertown Other New York radio regions Ithaca Jamestown–Dunkirk North Country Saratoga Pennsylvania radio markets Allentown–Bethlehem Altoona Bradford–Coudersport Chambersburg–Waynesboro Erie Harrisburg–Lebanon–Carlisle Lancaster Montrose New Castle Philadelphia Pittsburgh Reading Sayre–Towanda–Mansfield–Wellsboro Wilkes-Barre–Scranton Williamsport York Other Pennsylvania radio regions Bedford Indiana Johnstown Lewistown–Mifflintown Meadville–Franklin Punxsutawney–DuBois St. Marys–Emporium–Kane State College Stroudsburg Sunbury–Selinsgrove–Lewisburg Warren See also List of radio stations in Pennsylvania

NPR member stations in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Penn State University stations	Kane WPSX State College WPSU

Temple University stations	Jackson Township WRTY Ephrata WRTL Philadelphia WRTI Summerdale WJAZ Coatesville WRTJ

WQED stations	Johnstown WQEJ Pittsburgh WQED

WVIA stations	Scranton WVIA Williamsport WVYA

Other stations	Allentown WDIY Erie WQLN Harrisburg WITF Philadelphia WHYY Philadelphia WXPN Pittsburgh WESA Pittsburgh WYEP

See also List of NPR stations

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Pennsylvania

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