WFDD

For the collegiate athletic teams, see Wake Forest Demon Deacons.

WFDD

City	Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Broadcast area	North Carolina and Virginia
Branding	88.5 WFDD
Slogan	Public Radio for the Piedmont
Frequency	88.5 MHz (also on HD Radio)
Translator(s)	100.1 W261CK (Boone)
First air date	April 19, 1948 (in Wake Forest, moved to Winston-Salem in 1956)
Format	FM/HD1: news/talk/classical music HD2: Classical music HD3: Xponential Radio
ERP	60,000 watts
HAAT	285 meters
Class	C1
Facility ID	70708
Transmitter coordinates	35°55′2.00″N 80°17′37.00″W / 35.9172222°N 80.2936111°W / 35.9172222; -80.2936111
Callsign meaning	Wake Forest Demon Deacons (nickname of Wake Forest University sports teams)
Affiliations	National Public Radio, Public Radio International
Owner	Wake Forest University
Webcast	Listen Live (FM/HD1) Listen Live (HD2) Listen Live (HD3)
Website	wfdd.org

WFDD (88.5 MHz) is an FM public radio station licensed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is the National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate for the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point media market, also called the Piedmont Triad. Owned by Wake Forest University, WFDD serves 32 counties in Central North Carolina and South-Central Virginia. It also operates a translator, W261CK on 100.1 FM in Boone.

WFDD broadcasts from a 60,000 watt transmitter near Welcome, North Carolina.^[1] It had used a 100,000 watt transmitter but that was destroyed in a 1989 tornado. The station airs news and talk shows from NPR during the day, with local news updates. From 8 p.m. to 4 a.m., the station turns to Classical music programming.

History

"This is station W-A-K-E coming to you from the campus of Wake Forest College in Wake Forest, North Carolina…"

With these words, a radio station was born. In the fall of 1946, Alva "Al" Parris and Henry "Randy" Randall, began broadcasting—illegally—from their rooming house. Their early five-watt broadcasts only covered an area of about 300 feet in all directions. Students in the girls' dormitory could barely hear the station. Over the next year, as students pushed for better broadcasting range, college president Dr. Thurman D. Kitchin and faculty advisor Dr. Marc Lovelace helped establish WAKE as an official campus radio station. Students successfully raised the necessary $200 start-up funds, and by spring of 1948, the station had its FCC license.

Brothers David and Ralph Herring, Jr. built the first 50-watt transmitter, relying on diagrams found in a book about electronics and on the advice of a Raleigh radio engineer. On April 19, 1948, chief announcer Roland C. "Woody" Woodward was joined by President Kitchin and student body president Horace "Dagwood" Kornegay as the "Voice of Wake Forest" hit the airwaves. As it turned out, the original call letters WAKE were already assigned to another station. Within the month, the fledgling station's call letters became WFDD, which stands for the nickname of the university sports teams, "Wake Forest Demon Deacons."

For the next ten years, WFDD was completely a student-run station. When Wake Forest College moved to Winston-Salem in 1956, WFDD moved as well. Early programming included classical and popular music, programs by faculty members, an hour of devotional material each week, some campus sports, news, and a nightly broadcast of the "Deaconlight Serenade -- beaming musical good cheer to you and yours, styled the Wake Forest way."

In 1958, Dr. Julian Burroughs, who served as student station manager in 1950-51, returned to the station as the first non-student station manager. Burroughs served both as a professor in the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts at Wake Forest University and as station manager for WFDD until 1981. During this tenure, WFDD became a non-commercial educational FM station in 1961. Local listeners helped raise money for the addition of a new antenna and 36,000-watt transmitter in 1967, making WFDD the first FM stereo station in Winston-Salem. WFDD became a charter member of National Public Radio - the first in North Carolina - in 1970.

In 1982, WFDD began operating with a new antenna and 100,000-watt transmitter. On May 5, 1989, this transmitter was destroyed by a tornado. 88.5 WFDD currently broadcasts from a 60,000-watt transmitter in northern Davidson County.

References

External links

WFDD officlal website

Radio stations in the Winston-Salem–Greensboro–High Point, North Carolina market

By AM frequency	600 700 740 790 830 880 950 980 1040 1070 1090 1200 1220 1230 1300 1320 1340 1380 1400 1420 1440 1470 1490 1500 1510 1520 1550 1560 1590

By FM frequency	88.5 89.3 89.5 91.3 90.1 90.5 90.9 92.3 93.1 94.1 94.5 95.5 96.7 97.1 98.1 98.3 98.7 99.5 99.9 100.3 101.1 102.1 103.1 103.5 104.1 104.7 105.1 105.7 106.7 107.5

By callsign	W260CG WBFJ WBFJ-FM WBLO WBRF WCOG WDSL WEAL WFDD WFOZ-LP WGOS WHPE-FM WIST-FM WJMH WKEW WKRR WKTE WKVK WKZL WLOE WLXN WMAG WMFR WMKS WMYN WNAA WPAQ WPAW WPET WPIP WPOL WPTI WQFS WQMG WREV WSGH WSJS WSML WSMW WSMX WSNC WSYD WTJY WTOB WTQR WTRU WUAG WVBZ WWBG WWLV WWNT WXRI WYMY WYSR WYZD WZOO

North Carolina radio markets Asheville Charlotte Fayetteville Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point Greenville–New Bern–Jacksonville Raleigh–Durham Other North Carolina radio regions Elizabeth City–Nags Head Roanoke Rapids–South Hill Rocky Mount–Wilson Wilmington See also List of radio stations in North Carolina

NPR member stations in the state of North Carolina

North Carolina Public Radio stations	Chapel Hill WUNC Fayetteville WFSS Manteo WUND Rocky Mount WRQM Welcome WUNW

WCPE Stations	Raleigh WCPE Bath WZPE Buxton WBUX Manteo WURI

Public Radio East stations	New Bern WTEB Atlantic Beach WBJD Kinston WKNS New Bern WZNB

Western North Carolina Public Radio stations	Asheville WCQS Franklin WFQS Murphy WMQS

Other stations	Charlotte WFAE Dallas WSGE Davidson WDAV Durham WNCU Elizabeth City WRVS Hickory WFHE Mars Hill WYQS Raleigh WSHA Spindale WNCW Wilkesboro WSIF Wilmington WHQR Winston-Salem WFDD Winston-Salem WSNC

See also List of NPR stations

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in North Carolina

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