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| City | Columbus, Ohio |
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| Slogan | "Your Community Radio Station" |
| Frequency | 92.7 MHz |
| First air date | June 29, 2007 |
| Format | Community |
| ERP | 54 watts |
| HAAT | 40.6 meters (133 feet) |
| Class | L1 |
| Facility ID | 132329 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°03′48″N82°53′45″W / 40.06333°N 82.89583°W |
| Former callsigns | WCRM-LP (2017) |
| Owner | The Neighborhood Network |
| Website | wcrsfm.org |
WCRS-LP is a North American community radio station in Columbus, Ohio, area. It broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week and has an online stream available 24/7. WCRS-LP broadcasts on 92.7 and on translator station W252AY 98.3 FM in most of Franklin County, licensed to Marble Cliff. WCRS-LP is owned by The Neighborhood Network and is affiliated with the Pacifica Radio Network.
Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular and relevant to a local, specific audience but is often overlooked by commercial or mass-media broadcasters. Community radio stations are operated, owned, and influenced by the communities they serve. They are generally nonprofit and provide a mechanism for enabling individuals, groups, and communities to tell their own stories, to share experiences and, in a media-rich world, to become creators and contributors of media.
Columbus is the state capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a population of 879,170 as of 2017 estimates, it is the 14th-most populous city in the United States and one of the fastest growing large cities in the nation. This makes Columbus the third-most populous state capital in the US and the second-most populous city in the Midwest. It is the core city of the Columbus, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses ten counties. With a population of 2,078,725, it is Ohio's second-largest metropolitan area.
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The station is a not-for-profit, volunteer, non-commercial, low power community radio station. [1]
The station was assigned the WCRS-LP call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on March 30, 2006. [2]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. The FCC serves the public in the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security.
Among the programs on WCRS-LP are Democracy Now! , Street Fight Radio , and English, French, Somali, and Spanish-language public affairs programs. [3]
Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio and internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman, who also acts as the show's executive producer, and Juan González. The show, which airs live each weekday at 08:00 ET, is broadcast on the internet and by over 1,400 radio and television stations worldwide.
Street Fight Radio, or Street Fight is an American politics and humor radio show and podcast founded in June 2011 and hosted by Brett Payne and Bryan Quinby. While only one part of this show is broadcast each week on WCRS in Columbus, Ohio, each episode is released on the Internet as a podcast. The show has served as a launching point for Chapo Trap House as the hosts met while reviewing 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi for an episode of the show.
