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WDCB (90.9 MHz) is a non-commercial public FM radio station licensed to Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and serving the Chicago metropolitan area. It largely airs jazz programming and is owned by the College of DuPage. Most shows are locally-hosted. WDCB is listener-supported and seeks donations on the air and on its website. Funding also comes from grants and corporate sponsorships. The studios are on Fawell Boulevard on the DuPage campus.
WDCB has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 5,000 watts. The transmitter is off Fawell Boulevard at Briarcliff Boulevard in Wheaton. Programming can be heard on CAN TV channel 42 in Chicago. It is also simulcast on WRTE 90.7 FM on Chicago's west side.
WDCB began broadcasting July 5, 1977. It was originally a part-time station, sharing time on the frequency with WEPS. The station's call sign stood for "DuPage Community Broadcasting".
In its early years, the station aired classical music, jazz and folk music, College of DuPage educational courses, community affairs, and entertainment programming. The station began full-time operations in October 1987, after an agreement was reached for WEPS to move to a new frequency. Throughout the 1980s, WDCB was also used on the Cablevision of Downers Grove's Local/Public Access Channel.
By the late 1980s, jazz had become the station's primary format. While jazz remains its focus, WDCB plays a diverse variety of musical genres, including blues, roots rock, bluegrass, Celtic, folk, big band, Afro-Cuban jazz, and world music, along with old-time radio shows.
Educational courses continued to air on the station until 2001. Classical Confab aired Sundays until late 2005.
WDCB is also the home of Those Were The Days, the long-running old-time radio program that had originally been hosted by Chuck Schaden. In 2009, Steve Darnall took over as the second host of the show. The show was co-hosted from February 2001 to October 2022 by Ken Alexander, who died on November 2, 2022.
As the result of a 2016 agreement with Chicago Public Media, WDCB's programming is now also heard on WRTE 90.7 FM, from a low power 6-watt signal located on Chicago's near-west side. While WDCB's primary 90.9 FM signal does reach all of Chicago, the 90.7 FM signal offers better reception for many WDCB listeners on the west side of Chicago, as well as Chicago's near-north and near-south side neighborhoods.
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WDCB
WDCB (90.9 MHz) is a non-commercial public FM radio station licensed to Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and serving the Chicago metropolitan area. It largely airs jazz programming and is owned by the College of DuPage. Most shows are locally-hosted. WDCB is listener-supported and seeks donations on the air and on its website. Funding also comes from grants and corporate sponsorships. The studios are on Fawell Boulevard on the DuPage campus.
WDCB has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 5,000 watts. The transmitter is off Fawell Boulevard at Briarcliff Boulevard in Wheaton. Programming can be heard on CAN TV channel 42 in Chicago. It is also simulcast on WRTE 90.7 FM on Chicago's west side.
WDCB began broadcasting July 5, 1977. It was originally a part-time station, sharing time on the frequency with WEPS. The station's call sign stood for "DuPage Community Broadcasting".
In its early years, the station aired classical music, jazz and folk music, College of DuPage educational courses, community affairs, and entertainment programming. The station began full-time operations in October 1987, after an agreement was reached for WEPS to move to a new frequency. Throughout the 1980s, WDCB was also used on the Cablevision of Downers Grove's Local/Public Access Channel.
By the late 1980s, jazz had become the station's primary format. While jazz remains its focus, WDCB plays a diverse variety of musical genres, including blues, roots rock, bluegrass, Celtic, folk, big band, Afro-Cuban jazz, and world music, along with old-time radio shows.
Educational courses continued to air on the station until 2001. Classical Confab aired Sundays until late 2005.
WDCB is also the home of Those Were The Days, the long-running old-time radio program that had originally been hosted by Chuck Schaden. In 2009, Steve Darnall took over as the second host of the show. The show was co-hosted from February 2001 to October 2022 by Ken Alexander, who died on November 2, 2022.
As the result of a 2016 agreement with Chicago Public Media, WDCB's programming is now also heard on WRTE 90.7 FM, from a low power 6-watt signal located on Chicago's near-west side. While WDCB's primary 90.9 FM signal does reach all of Chicago, the 90.7 FM signal offers better reception for many WDCB listeners on the west side of Chicago, as well as Chicago's near-north and near-south side neighborhoods.
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