WMUA

Last updated
WMUA
Broadcast area Pioneer Valley
Frequency 91.1 MHz
Programming
Format College radio
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
1949 (1949) (carrier current AM)
1952 (FM)
Call sign meaning
Massachusetts University - Amherst [1]
Technical information [2]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 69184
Class A
ERP 450 watts
HAAT 39 meters (128 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 42°23′37.97″N72°31′17.90″W / 42.3938806°N 72.5216389°W / 42.3938806; -72.5216389
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website wmua.org

WMUA (91.1 FM) is a student-run college radio station. Licensed to serve Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, the station is based on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The station's broadcast license is held by the University of Massachusetts. WMUA celebrated its 70th anniversary of continuous on-air broadcasting during the 2017-2018 school year. The station debuted a second, online-only stream called WMUAx in September 2017.

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WMUA was established in 1948 originally as an AM station. Though it is run by undergraduates, other faculty, staff, assorted members of the community, and graduate students contribute to the station.

WMUA is broadcast to the Connecticut River Valley, including western Massachusetts, northern Connecticut, and southern Vermont. The station is federally licensed (authorized by the FCC) and non-commercial, and is under the supervision of the UMass Board of Trustees.

WMUA's studio is located in the basement of the Lincoln Campus Center building. The actual transmitter and antenna are located on Observatory Way, between the Orchard Hill and Sylvan Residential living areas. This facility, activated at midnight on January 1, 2004, is WMUA's third transmission site; it originally transmitted from atop Marston Hall, and then on Emily Dickinson Dormitory. The Dickinson Dormitory tower in Orchard Hill served as a backup until a re-roofing project took it down in 2011; it is licensed as a backup facility, and rebuilding the backup was completed on June 30, 2014. The station is a licensed "class A" broadcast facility. WMUA is tentatively slated to move to a new facility in fall 2020, as part of the UMass Student Union Renovation Project.

Programming

WMUA's programming philosophy is to provide listeners with an eclectic experience unique to the UMass and Pioneer Valley region the station serves. In addition to music programming, there are talk shows, sports shows, and student-produced newscasts every weekday at 5:30 p.m. WMUA broadcasts 24/7/365 and is available online on WMUA's website. The station has a second, online-only stream called WMUAx that can be accessed on the station's website. WMUAx is non-FCC regulated, and plays additional WMUA content as well as select sports games.

WMUA provides an outlet for multiple opinions to be expressed through music, political and advocacy talk, and public service announcements.

Sports

WMUA is the flagship radio station of UMass Minutewomen basketball as well as both UMass Minutemen lacrosse and UMass Minutewomen lacrosse. They also broadcast other UMass Minutemen sports including ice hockey, men's basketball, baseball, and football throughout the year. Since 2018 all WMUA Sports productions have been broadcast from the Dave Strader Memorial Sports Studio, named to honor the WMUA alum following his passing.

WMUA Sports produces online podcasts covering a wide range of topics around sports. Podcasts include Chatting 300 (baseball), Intentionally Foul (NBA and fantasy basketball), Bracketville (bracket-style game show on the bests and worsts in the world of sports), From the Peanut Gallery (WMUA's own version of "First Take"), Cover Four (college football), Four-Point Play (college basketball) and Goal Line Stand (NFL).

News

WMUA News is one of the nation's last remaining daily student-run news broadcasts. Broadcasting during the academic year, it focuses on international, national, and local news. All on-air content is hosted, produced, and scripted by students.

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Notable alumni

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References

  1. ↑ "Call Letter Origins". Radio History on the Web.
  2. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WMUA". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ↑ "David Ginsburg – 90.5 WICN Public Radio".
  4. ↑ Parnass, Larry. UMass grad Audie Cornish, NPR veteran, lands Sunday anchor slot. GazetteNet.com, 2011.
  5. ↑ "UMass alum returns for ESPN".
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