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Broadcast area | Tallahassee, Florida |
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Frequency | 89.7 MHz |
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Ownership | |
Owner | Florida State University |
WFSQ, WFSU-FM, WFSW, WFSU-TV | |
History | |
First air date | 1987 |
Call sign meaning | Voice of Florida State |
Technical information [1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 4204 |
Class | C3 |
ERP | 7,000 watts |
HAAT | 55 meters |
Transmitter coordinates | 30°26′22.00″N84°17′29.00″W / 30.4394444°N 84.2913889°W |
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Public license information | |
Website | wvfs |
WVFS, launched in 1987, is one of four radio stations that broadcast from Florida State University in the Tallahassee area. (WFSQ, WFSU-FM, and WFSW are the others.) WVFS is referred to as "V89", "The Voice", or "The Voice of Florida State". WVFS broadcasts at 89.7 FM. The station is staffed by student and community volunteers. Featuring no automation, the DJ booth at WVFS is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year. New and different music is played to provide an alternative to commercial radio.
The programming schedule at WVFS is divided into regular programming and specialty programming. Regular programming time slots include a combination of newly released material, music from the WVFS Catalog, and listener requests. Regular programming also occasionally features News, Weather, and Concert Updates, promotional announcements, and public service announcements (PSAs). Specialty programming on WVFS consists of 28 named shows of varying lengths which air at routinely scheduled times, either once every week or once every month.
WVFS holds a volunteer "cattle call" at the beginning of the fall, spring, and summer semesters to recruit volunteers. WVFS accepts student volunteers from Florida State University as well as community volunteers.
Year | Award | Category | Work | Credits | Result |
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2009 | New York Festivals | Best Music Program | Sonic Safari | Host : Jamie Madden | Bronze [2] |
New York Festivals | Magazine Format | Vox Populi | Creative Director: Heidi Kerr News Director: Ryan Williams Chief Producer: Tim Cason | Bronze [3] | |
New York Festivals | Best Comedy/Humor Personality: Local | Hearty White | Executive Producer/Host: David Morris | Finalist [4] |
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