WMUM-FM

Last updated
WMUM-FM
Broadcast area Macon area
Frequency 89.7 MHz (HD Radio)
BrandingGeorgia Public Radio
Programming
Format Public radio
Subchannels HD2: Classical "GPB Classical"
Affiliations NPR
Ownership
OwnerGeorgia Public Telecommunications Commission
History
First air date
1983 (as WDCO-FM)
Former call signs
WDCO-FM (1983–2006)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 23939
Class C0
ERP 43,000 watts horizontal
100,000 watts vertical
HAAT 304.1 meters (997.7 feet)
Transmitter coordinates
32°28′11.6″N83°15′16.6″W / 32.469889°N 83.254611°W / 32.469889; -83.254611
Links
Public license information
Webcast Stream
Website www.gpb.org/radio/stations/wmum

WMUM-FM (89.7 FM) (formerly WDCO-FM) is the Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) Public radio station serving Macon and central Georgia. The station shares a tower with its sister GPB Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station, WMUM-TV, in Cochran, its city of license.

The station is a partnership, established in 2006, between Mercer University and GPB. The station provides local content to central Georgia public radio listeners from its broadcast studio on Mercer's Macon campus. The studio, constructed in 2006, offers various media-related educational opportunities for Mercer students. The station's call letters were changed to WMUM-FM (Mercer University Macon) to identify the current partnership with Mercer.

The station, under its former call letters, WDCO-FM, was one of the first GPB radio stations, signing on in 1984. As WDCO-FM, the station only simulcasted the GPB radio network, with no local origination. The new broadcast studio airs local programming. [2]

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References

  1. "Facility Technical Data for WMUM-FM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. "GPB Pressroom". www.gpb.org. Archived from the original on 2006-10-02.