WERS

Last updated

WERS
Broadcast area Greater Boston
Frequency 88.9 MHz (HD Radio)
Branding88.9 WERS
Programming
Format Eclectic; adult album alternative
Subchannels HD2: WERS Plus (hip hop/R&B)
Ownership
Owner Emerson College
History
First air date
November 14, 1949 [1]
Former frequencies
88.1 MHz (1949–1950)
Call sign meaning
Emerson Radio Station
Technical information [2]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 19482
Class B1
ERP 4,000 watts
HAAT 186 meters (610 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 42°21′8.4″N71°3′23.2″W / 42.352333°N 71.056444°W / 42.352333; -71.056444 (WERS)
Translator(s) See § Translators
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
HD2: Listen live
Website wers.org
HD2: wersplus.org

WERS (88.9 FM) is one of Emerson College's two radio stations (the other being campus station WECB), located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Programming features over 20 different styles of music and news, including live performances and interviews. WERS stands as the oldest non-commercial radio station in New England, and has been in operation since November 1949. Among the founders of the station was WEEI program director Arthur F. Edes, who first taught broadcasting courses at Emerson in 1932 and helped to plan a campus radio station. The chief architect of WERS in its early years was Professor Charles William Dudley.

Contents

Translators

Broadcast translators for WERS
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) HAAT Class Transmitter coordinatesFCC info
W268AM101.5 FM Gloucester, Massachusetts 1387723871.1  m (233  ft)D 42°37′28.3″N70°39′13.2″W / 42.624528°N 70.653667°W / 42.624528; -70.653667 (W268AM) LMS
W243BG96.5 FM New Bedford, Massachusetts 1420885553.1 m (174 ft)D 41°38′25.4″N70°55′1.1″W / 41.640389°N 70.916972°W / 41.640389; -70.916972 (W243BG) LMS

In June 2007, WERS inaugurated a translator station on 96.5  MHz in New Bedford, Massachusetts, relaying WERS's programming to New Bedford and nearby communities. Another translator, on 101.5 MHz in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on Cape Ann, went on the air in July 2008.

Sports

In the late 1990s and mid-2000s, WERS featured a successful sports-themed program, Sports Sunday, which aired Sundays from noon to 2 pm. The program won three consecutive Associated Press annual awards for student sports programming (2002, 2003, and 2004). Guests of the show included former basketball great Bill Walton, Boston Globe columnist Kevin Paul DuPont, Hockey East commissioner Joe Bertagna, former Northeastern University men’s hockey head coach Bruce Crowder, InsideHockey.com columnist James Murphy, and NHL.com columnist Bob Snow.

Former show hosts include Lon Nichols (current anchor for KLKN in Lincoln, Nebraska), Lowell Galindo (current ESPNU anchor), Tom Gauthier (current radio broadcaster and director of media relations for the Bowling Green Hot Rods), Justin Termine (current anchor and producer for NBA Radio on Sirius), Mike Gastonguay (interned as an associate producer for KXTA’s Loose Cannons), Matt Porter ( Palm Beach Post Miami Hurricanes beat reporter), Steve Crowe (Boston Globe part-timer) and Ryan Heisler (noted triathlete).

See also

References

  1. ↑ Halper, Donna; Wollman, Garrett. "The Eastern Massachusetts Radio Timeline: the 1940s". The Archives @ BostonRadio.org. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WERS". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.

WERS Broadcast

WECB On-Campus Radio


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.