WEMC

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WEMC
WEMC.png
City Harrisonburg, Virginia
Broadcast area Harrisonburg, Virginia
Rockingham County, Virginia
Frequency 91.7 MHz
BrandingWEMC 91.7
Programming
Format Classical music [1]
Ownership
Owner Eastern Mennonite University
(Board of Trustees of Eastern Mennonite University)
Operator James Madison University
History
First air date
 1955 [2]
Call sign meaning
Eastern Mennonite College
Technical information
Facility ID 4308
Class A
Power 1,850 watts
HAAT 58 meters (190 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 38°28′20.0″N78°52′57.0″W / 38.472222°N 78.882500°W / 38.472222; -78.882500
Links
Webcast WEMC Webstream
Website WEMC Online

WEMC (91.7 FM) is a classical music formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Harrisonburg, Virginia, serving Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, Virginia. [1] WEMC is owned by Eastern Mennonite University. [3]

Due to declining listenership and low student involvement, James Madison University's WMRA (90.7 FM) took over operation of WEMC on January 14, 2008. [4] WMRA moved its morning, midday, and late-night classical music blocks to WEMC in exchange for NPR's Talk of the Nation and Fresh Air , which had been heard on WEMC as WMRA was unable to fit them into its schedule. Both stations preserved their evening schedules, as WMRA was hesitant to eliminate its evening music programming due to WEMC's inferior signal. [5]

WEMC dropped its last remaining information programs, Democracy Now! and rebroadcasts of the BBC World Service, on August 11, 2014. The station now broadcasts classical music throughout the week. There are local hosts only on Monday and Tuesday evening ("Bob's Record Shelf" and "Air Play", the latter featuring regional orchestras), with the rest of the music largely coming from the syndicated Classical 24. [6] The only exceptions to the format are the local Mennonite music show "Mostly Mennonite, Mostly Acapella", and the service from Park View Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg live on Sunday morning. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Arbitron Station Information Profiles". Nielsen Audio/Nielsen Holdings . Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  2. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 2010 (PDF). ProQuest, LLC/Reed Publishing (Nederland), B.V. 2010. p. D-565. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  3. ↑ "WEMC Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Centennial Stories: WEMC, Virginia's first noncommercial radio station, was founded on campus in 1954". emu.edu. December 2015.
  5. ↑ "New Programming". WMRA. Archived from the original on January 13, 2008.
  6. ↑ "WEMC Weekly Schedule".
  7. ↑ "WEMC unveils new programming, rebrands as region's home for classical music – EMU News". emu.edu. August 8, 2014.


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