WITF-FM

WITF-FM
City Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Broadcast area South Central Pennsylvania
Branding Live inspired
Slogan Your home for NPR News and All Things Regional
Frequency 89.5 MHz (also on HD Radio)
Translator(s) 99.9 MHz W260CC (Lancaster)
First air date April 1, 1971
Format NPR
ERP 5,900 watts
HAAT 415 meters
Class B
Facility ID 73084
Callsign meaning Where It's Top Flight [1]
Owner WITF, Inc.
Sister stations WITF-TV
Website www.witf.org

WITF-FM (89.5 FM) is a non-commercial, public FM radio station licensed to serve Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by WITF, Inc., and broadcasts NPR talk and news programming. It is a sister station to the area's PBS member station, WITF-TV. Both stations are based at the Public Media Center in Swatara Township (with a Harrisburg mailing address), and broadcast from a shared tower located on Blue Mountain in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County at (40°20′43.6″N 76°52′7.6″W / 40.345444°N 76.868778°W / 40.345444; -76.868778).[2][3]

History

WITF-FM signed on for the first time on April 1, 1971, becoming the first station in central Pennsylvania to broadcast a classical music format.[4]

The station originally broadcast from studios at Hershey Middle School, moving to Locust Lane in Harrisburg in 1982. On July 22, 2005, WITF began construction on its 75,000 square foot Public Media Center in Swatara Township. Staff would begin moving into the facility on November 27, 2006.[4]

After airing a mix of classical music and NPR programming for much of its history, the station dropped all classical music programming on June 25, 2012,[4] replacing it with a news and information format consisting of syndicated programs from NPR and other providers, along with local news and cultural arts reporting by WITF staff.[5] WITF has its own Multimedia News Department,[6] which provides local and regional news coverage.

The station began simulcasting its programming on 93.3 WYPM on January 9, 2009.[4] WITF programming was now available on a local FM station to listeners in the Chambersburg, Pennsylvania area.

On December 19, 2012, NPR announced that StateImpact Pennsylvania, won one of three 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Awards (essentially the Pulitzer Prize of broadcast and digital journalism) for its outstanding reporting on energy issues for focusing on the fiscal, environmental and social issues of gas drilling on Pennsylvania's economy.[7] WITF reporter Scott Detrow contributed to the report.

On April 19, 2016, WITF's reporting was honored with six regional Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association for excellence in broadcast and online journalism.[8][9]

Stations

One full-power station is licensed to simulcast the programming of WITF-FM full-time:

Call sign Frequency City of license Facility ID ERP/Power
W 		Height
m (ft) 		Class Transmitter coordinates
WYPM 93.3 FM Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 49384 350 412 m (1,352 ft) A 40°02′54.0″N 77°45′2.0″W / 40.048333°N 77.750556°W / 40.048333; -77.750556 (WYPM) (NAD27)

Translators

WITF-FM programming is broadcast on the following translator:

Call sign Frequency
(MHz) 		City of license ERP
W 		Height
m (ft) 		Class FCC info
W260CC 99.9 Lancaster, Pennsylvania 38 60.1 m (197 ft) D FCC

References

  1. ↑ "Call Letter Origins: The List". Oldradio.com. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  2. ↑ "FM Query Results for WITF-FM". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  3. ↑ "TV Query Results for WITF-TV". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "WITF History". Witf.org. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  5. ↑ Dunkle, David (2012-06-25). "WITF format change leaves some listeners in classical music 'withdrawal'". Pennlive.com. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  6. ↑ "WITF Radio Schedule". Witf.org. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  7. ↑ Philbin, Cara (2012-12-19). "Give Them A Hand: NPR, StateImpact And StoryCorps Honored With DuPont-Columbia Awards". NPR.org. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  8. ↑ Lambert, Tim (2016-04-19). "WITF honored with multiple Regional Murrow Awards". Witf.org. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  9. ↑ "RTDNA 2016 Edward R. Murrow Awards". rtdna.org. Retrieved 2016-04-29.

Coordinates: 40°20′46″N 76°52′05″W / 40.346°N 76.868°W / 40.346; -76.868


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