WFHB
City of license | Bloomington, Indiana |
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Broadcast area | Bloomington, Ellettsville, Nashville IN |
Branding | Bloomington community radio |
Frequency | 91.3 MHz |
Repeaters |
98.1 (Bloomington) 106.3 (Ellettsville) 100.7 (Nashville) |
Format | Community Radio |
ERP | 1,600 watts |
HAAT | 119.0 meters |
Class | A |
Facility ID | 5878 |
Transmitter coordinates | 39°1′18.00″N 86°36′5.00″W / 39.0216667°N 86.6013889°W |
Callsign meaning | FireHouse Broadcasting |
Owner | Bloomington Community Radio Inc. |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | wfhb.org |
WFHB 91.3 FM is a community radio FM station in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. The station has three translators serving southern Indiana: 98.1 in Bloomington, 100.7 in Nashville and 106.3 in Ellettsville.
WFHB has a small paid staff and over 200 volunteers, who perform a range of duties, from office administration to music and news programming.[1] The station is supported financially by contributions from listeners and program underwriting by local businesses,[2] as well as by community service grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.[3]
Station history
The idea for WFHB began in the summer of 1975, when radio enthusiasts from Bloomington attended the National Alternative Radio Konference in Madison, Wisconsin. After returning from the conference, they founded a non-profit organization to establish a community radio station and began the process of applying for a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license and raising the necessary funds. Eighteen years later, on January 4, 1993, following numerous applications and several court cases, WFHB began broadcasting in a former city fire station in downtown Bloomington.[4][5]
Translators
In addition to its main frequency, WFHB is relayed by three translators to widen its broadcast area.
Call sign | Frequency (MHz) | City of license | ERP W | Class | FCC info |
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W251AG | 98.1 | Bloomington, Indiana | 250 | D | FCC |
W292DD | 106.3 | [[Ellettsville, Indiana
Radio Translator W264BP Licensed to: Light of Life Ministries, Inc. God's Country [Southern Gospel] 160 Bangor St Augusta ME 04330 (207) 622-1340 call3 = W264BP]] | 38 | D | FCC |
Programs
- BloomingOUT
- Daily Local News
- Bring It On!
- Interchange
- Standing Room Only
- EcoReport
- Hola Bloomington
- Storytelling Project
- Harvest Home
- What's The Juice?
- Brown County Hour
- CATSweek
- Sweatbox
- Specials
References
- ↑ "Volunteer Power". WFHB official website. Retrieved 2014-08-10. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "Support 91.3 WFHB". WFHB official website. Retrieved 2009-04-05. External link in
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(help) - ↑ "CPB Adds Ten Radio Stations to its Community Service Grant Program". Corporation for Public Broadcasting news release. August 5, 2008. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
- ↑ Howley, Kevin (October 2001). "Talking about Public Affairs Programming: WFHB and the Legacy of Listener-Sponsored Radio". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (Vol. 21, No. 4).
- ↑
- "WFHB History". Prometheus Radio Project. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
External links
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WFHB
- Radio-Locator information on WFHB
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WFHB
- BRING IT ON
- Daily Local News
- Interchange
- Standing Room Only
- EcoReport
- bloomingOUT
- Hola Bloomington
- Bloomington Storytelling Project
- Harvest Home
- What's The Juice?
- Brown County Hour
- CATSweek
- Sweatbox
- Specials