WUOM
City | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
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Broadcast area | Ann Arbor, Lansing, parts of Detroit, Michigan |
Branding | Michigan Radio |
Slogan | Your NPR News Station |
Frequency |
91.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
First air date | 1948 |
Format | Public radio: News/talk |
Power | 93,000 watts |
HAAT | 237 meters (778 ft) |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 66319 |
Transmitter coordinates | 42°24′27″N 83°54′50″W / 42.40750°N 83.91389°W |
Callsign meaning | University Of Michigan |
Affiliations |
Michigan Radio NPR PRI APM |
Owner | University of Michigan |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website |
www |
WUOM (91.7 FM) is a non-commercial radio station in Ann Arbor, Michigan, licensed to the University of Michigan. The station is known as Michigan Radio: Your NPR News Station, and currently airs news and talk programming.
WUOM broadcasts in the HD Radio format.[1]
History
The University of Michigan applied to the FCC on September 11, 1944 for a station at 43.1 FM (part of a band of frequencies used for testing of Frequency Modulation) with a power of 50,000 watts. At the time an assignment on the new FM band was seen as a significant disadvantage.
The FCC granted a license for WUOM (for University Of Michigan) at 91.7 in the brand new FM band; the station went on the air in 1948. WUOM's signal covers most of Southeastern Michigan, including Metro Detroit (where the station has somewhat high ratings for an out-of-market NPR station, and listeners in the western half of the Detroit area can get a stable lock on their HD signal), and parts of extreme Southwestern Ontario. The station provides 24-hour NPR news service to the state capital, since WKAR-AM must sign off at sundown and WKAR-FM airs the Classical 24 network from 7 pm to 5 am weeknights with minimal, if any, interruptions for news.
References
External links
- Official website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WUOM
- Radio-Locator information on WUOM
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WUOM
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