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WUOT
WUOT (91.9 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported, public radio station in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is owned by the University of Tennessee, and it airs a mix of news, classical music and jazz. It is a charter member of National Public Radio (NPR). The studios and offices are on Circle Park Drive in Knoxville.
WUOT is a Class C station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 80,000 watts. (100,000 watts is usually the maximum.) The transmitter is in Sharp's Ridge Memorial Park, off Interstate 640 in Knoxville. With that power and antenna height, WUOT can be heard around Eastern Tennessee and reaches into Kentucky, North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia.
WUOT airs news and information programming during morning and afternoon drive time on weekdays. It carries NPR programs including Morning Edition, Fresh Air and All Things Considered. In middays and at night, it plays classical music. On Friday evenings, the music switches to jazz and on Saturday evenings, it carries Mountain Stage and The Thistle and Shamrock. Sunday evenings feature Pipedreams and Hearts of Space.
During the day on Saturday and Sunday, there are specialty public radio shows, including Planet Money, Zorba Paster on Your Health, The Splendid Table, This American Life, Hidden Brain and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
On June 2, 1949, the University of Tennessee filed paperwork with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It was seeking a construction permit to build a new noncommercial FM radio station in Knoxville. The idea to bring the university a radio station had been a plank of future U.S. senator Howard Baker's campaign platform for student body president at UTK.
The FCC approved the application a month later. The university announced that it would be building studios on the ground floor of Ayres Hall and had bought equipment from defunct radio station WKPB. WKPB had been a commercial station on 93.3 FM owned by The Knoxville Journal that broadcast from October 15, 1947 until April 15, 1949. The Knoxville Journal, citing the uncertainty created by the advent of television, shut down the radio station and sold its equipment to the university and its records to the general public. For a total of $16,000, the university had the equipment it needed to set up its own radio station.
WUOT signed on the air on October 27, 1949. It was one of Eastern Tennessee's earliest FM stations. The first regular programming schedule included broadcasts for five and a half hours a day, and it boasted two full-time staff members. WUOT broadcast informational programs, classical music, and reports of student activities. Apart from the two staffers, it was operated by students.
The radio station's facilities also provided a home for the university's offering of 25 radio programs, which were heard in 1950 on 17 commercial radio stations in Tennessee. By 1956, the circulation of the university's productions had increased to 65 stations.
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WUOT
WUOT (91.9 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported, public radio station in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is owned by the University of Tennessee, and it airs a mix of news, classical music and jazz. It is a charter member of National Public Radio (NPR). The studios and offices are on Circle Park Drive in Knoxville.
WUOT is a Class C station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 80,000 watts. (100,000 watts is usually the maximum.) The transmitter is in Sharp's Ridge Memorial Park, off Interstate 640 in Knoxville. With that power and antenna height, WUOT can be heard around Eastern Tennessee and reaches into Kentucky, North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia.
WUOT airs news and information programming during morning and afternoon drive time on weekdays. It carries NPR programs including Morning Edition, Fresh Air and All Things Considered. In middays and at night, it plays classical music. On Friday evenings, the music switches to jazz and on Saturday evenings, it carries Mountain Stage and The Thistle and Shamrock. Sunday evenings feature Pipedreams and Hearts of Space.
During the day on Saturday and Sunday, there are specialty public radio shows, including Planet Money, Zorba Paster on Your Health, The Splendid Table, This American Life, Hidden Brain and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
On June 2, 1949, the University of Tennessee filed paperwork with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It was seeking a construction permit to build a new noncommercial FM radio station in Knoxville. The idea to bring the university a radio station had been a plank of future U.S. senator Howard Baker's campaign platform for student body president at UTK.
The FCC approved the application a month later. The university announced that it would be building studios on the ground floor of Ayres Hall and had bought equipment from defunct radio station WKPB. WKPB had been a commercial station on 93.3 FM owned by The Knoxville Journal that broadcast from October 15, 1947 until April 15, 1949. The Knoxville Journal, citing the uncertainty created by the advent of television, shut down the radio station and sold its equipment to the university and its records to the general public. For a total of $16,000, the university had the equipment it needed to set up its own radio station.
WUOT signed on the air on October 27, 1949. It was one of Eastern Tennessee's earliest FM stations. The first regular programming schedule included broadcasts for five and a half hours a day, and it boasted two full-time staff members. WUOT broadcast informational programs, classical music, and reports of student activities. Apart from the two staffers, it was operated by students.
The radio station's facilities also provided a home for the university's offering of 25 radio programs, which were heard in 1950 on 17 commercial radio stations in Tennessee. By 1956, the circulation of the university's productions had increased to 65 stations.