WMUL

WMUL

City	Huntington, West Virginia
Broadcast area	Metro Huntington
Branding	"88.1 WMUL"
Slogan	"The Cutting Edge"
Frequency	88.1 MHz
First air date	1961
Format	Variety
Power	1,400 Watts
HAAT	-15 Meters
Class	A
Facility ID	66564
Transmitter coordinates	38°25′26.88″N 82°25′43.05″W / 38.4241333°N 82.4286250°W / 38.4241333; -82.4286250
Callsign meaning	W Marshall University Labs or Lbraries (no documentation has been found to state one way or another)
Owner	Marshall University (Marshall University Board of Governors)
Webcast	WMUL Webstream (Feed 1) WMUL Webstream (Feed 2) WMUL Webstream (Feed 3)
Website	WMUL Online

WMUL is a college broadcast radio station licensed to Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, serving Metro Huntington. The Marshall University Board of Governors owns WMUL's FCC license and a Board of Directors composed of students and community volunteers, under the direction of Faculty Manager Dr. Charles G. Bailey, handles the day-to-day operations.

Sports Programming

WMUL's sports department covers more Marshall sporting events live than any other media entity. It broadcasts all of Marshall's home college football games, which is a rare opportunity for college radio stations. It also broadcasts Marshall's home soccer, volleyball, basketball (men's and women's), and baseball games. The station broadcasts some of Marshall's away football, baseball and women's basketball games, and is the exclusive home of the 2013 Conference USA Champion Marshall Softball team.

News Programming

The news department broadcasts newsbriefs at the top of the hour from 12-3 p.m. Monday-Friday. The flagship broadcast, "The 5 p.m. Edition of NewsCenter 88," runs for 30 minutes and covers events happening around Marshall, the Huntington Tri-State region, and the rest of the nation. It also includes the five-minute "FM 88 Sports Report" and a minute-long "Metro Huntington Weather Forecast." The station also produces news/talk shows each semester and occasionally produces and airs the "Insight Into Old Main" series, dealing with various parts of the Marshall University administration.

Awards

As of summer 2015, the station has won over 1500 national and regional awards since 1985,^[1] the year Faculty Manager Dr. Charles G. Bailey began tracking awards. The record number of awards attained in one school year was set in 2010-2011, when the station received 131 national and regional awards.

WMUL has won numerous awards through the National Broadcasting Society (NBS) contest, including winning Best Sports Play-by-Play, Best Audio Magazine Program, Best Audio Sports Package, Best Audio Sports Program and Best Audio Promo in the 2015 contest. This contest is open only to individual NBS members and member colleges. Another major contest for the station is The Virginias Associated Press Broadcasters Association awards. The station's FM 88 Sports Team was named Outstanding Sports Operation in the non-metro division of the 2015 Virginias AP Broadcasters Awards. Other winners in that contest were Outstanding Effort by an Individual Reporter, Best Coverage of a Spot News Story, Best Feature or Human Interest Story and Best Sports Feature Story. The Virginias AP Broadcasters Association is open to all broadcast media, commercial and non-commercial, that includes West Virginia and/or Virginia as part or all of its coverage area.^[2]

References

External links

Marshall University

Academics	Marshall University Forensic Science Graduate Program Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine Marshall University – South Charleston Campus

Athletics	Marco the Buffalo Baseball Football Men's Basketball Appalachian Power Park Cam Henderson Center Joan C. Edwards Stadium Kennedy Center Field Veterans Memorial Soccer Complex Battle for the Bell Friends of Coal Bowl

Campus	List of buildings Engineering Laboratory Health and Wellness Center Marshall Commons Forensic Science Center Rural Health Clinic Old Main Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center

Media	The Parthenon West Virginia Public Broadcasting WMUL WZPS

Related	John Marshall Scholars Society of Yeager Scholars List of Marshall University people Southern Airways Flight 932 Marshall University: Ashes to Glory We Are Marshall

Radio stations in the Huntington / Ashland, WV–KY–OH market

By FM frequency	88.1 89.1 89.9 90.3 91.1 91.9 92.3 92.7 93.7 94.9 96.1 97.1 97.5 97.9 98.3 99.7 100.5 100.9 101.5 102.7 103.3 104.1 104.5 105.1 105.7 106.3 107.1 107.9

By AM frequency	800 930 1080 1110 1200 1230 1340 1340 1370 1420 1520 1600

NOAA Weather Radio	162.550

By callsign	KIH39 WAMX WASP-LP WBVB WCMI WCMI-FM WDGG WEKV WEMM-FM WGOH WHKU WIRO WKAO WKEE-FM WKLC-FM WKWS WLGC WLGC-FM WLRX WMGA WMKY WMUL WMUX WOKE WONS WOUB WOUL WNKE WQBE-FM WRVC WXBW WTCR WTCR-FM WUGO WVSR-FM WVHU WVWV WZAQ WZPS WZZW

Defunct	WPAY

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West Virginia college radio stations

WCDE (Davis and Elkins College) WGLZ (West Liberty State College) WMUL (Marshall University) WQAB (Alderson-Broaddus College) WSHC (Shepherd University) WVCU-LP (Concord University) WVWC (West Virginia Wesleyan College) WWVU (West Virginia University)

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