WUOM

WUOM

City	Ann Arbor, Michigan
Broadcast area	Ann Arbor, Lansing, parts of Detroit, Michigan
Branding	Michigan Radio
Slogan	Your State, Your Stories... Your NPR News Station
Frequency	91.7 MHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date	1948
Format	Public radio: News/talk
Power	93,000 watts
HAAT	237 meters (778 ft)
Class	B
Facility ID	66319
Transmitter coordinates	42°24′27″N 83°54′50″W / 42.40750°N 83.91389°W / 42.40750; -83.91389
Callsign meaning	University Of Michigan
Affiliations	Michigan Radio National Public Radio Public Radio International American Public Media BBC World Service
Owner	University of Michigan
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	www.michiganradio.org

WUOM (91.7 FM) is a non-commercial radio station in Ann Arbor, Michigan, licensed to the University of Michigan. The station is known as Michigan Radio: Your NPR News Station, and currently airs news and talk programming. Programs are simulcast on WFUM 91.1 FM in Flint and WVGR 104.1 FM in Grand Rapids, and also streamed online via the station's website.

All three Michigan Radio stations broadcast in the HD Radio format, albeit without any side channels. ^[1]

History

The University of Michigan applied to the FCC on September 11, 1944 for a station at 43.1 FM (part of a band of frequencies used for testing of Frequency Modulation) with a power of 50,000 watts. At the time an assignment on the new FM band was seen as a significant disadvantage.

The FCC granted a license for WUOM (for University Of Michigan) at 91.7 in the brand new FM band; the station went on the air in 1948. Classical music made up a large chunk of the station's broadcast day until the late 1990s, when, faced with declining ratings and listener pledges, Michigan Radio changed its daytime programming to news and talk. Classical music programming continued for a time at night and was eventually phased out altogether. Michigan Radio was also the flagship station for The Todd Mundt Show, distributed nationally by NPR. Until recently, the station kept a few music programs, such as American Routes, on its weekend schedule; these have also since been phased out.

WUOM's signal covers most of Southeastern Michigan, including Metro Detroit (where the station has somewhat high ratings for an out-of-market NPR station, and listeners in the western half of the Detroit area can get a stable lock on their HD signal), and parts of extreme Southwestern Ontario. It is also reported to be the most listened-to station in Ann Arbor, ahead of all commercial signals. The station provides 24-hour NPR news service to the state capital, since WKAR-AM must sign off at sundown and WKAR-FM airs the Classical 24 network from 7 pm to 5 am weeknights with minimal, if any, interruptions for news.

References

↑ http://www.hdradio.com/stations

External links

Official website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WUOM

Radio-Locator information on WUOM

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WUOM

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Radio stations in the Ann Arbor, Michigan market

By FM frequency	88.3 89.1 91.7 102.3 102.9 107.1

By AM frequency	990 1050 1290 1480 1600

Defunct	WYNZ 1520

By callsign	WAAM WCBN-FM WDEO WEGV-LP WEMU WLBY WQKL WSDS WTKA WUOM WWWW-FM

Nearby radio markets Detroit Flint Grand Rapids Lansing Sandusky South Central MI Southwestern Ontario Thumb of MI Toledo See also List of radio stations in Michigan

Radio stations in the Detroit, Michigan market (excluding Canadian stations)

By AM frequency	560 680/690 760 910 950 1030 1090 1130 1160 1200 1270 1310 1340 1400 1440 1460 1480 1500 1590 1600 1610

By FM frequency	88.1 88.1 88.1 88.1 88.3 88.3 88.3 89.1 89.3 89.3 89.5 89.5 → 90.1 (CP) 89.5 89.7 90.3 90.9 91.5 91.7 92.3 92.7 93.1 93.5 93.5/98.3/105.5/106.3/107.1¹ 94.3 94.3 94.7 95.5 96.3 96.7 96.7 97.1 97.9 98.7 99.5 99.9 100.3 100.7 101.1 101.5 101.9 102.7 103.5 103.9 104.3 104.7 105.1 105.9 106.7 107.5

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.425 162.450 162.550

Digital radio	560 910 950 1270 1340 90.9-1 91.7-1 92.3-2 93.1-1 93.1-2 93.1-3 94.7-1 94.7-2 95.5-1 95.5-2 96.3-1 96.3-2 97.1-1 97.1-2 97.1-3 97.9-1 97.9-2 98.3-1 98.7-1 98.7-2 98.7-3 99.5-1 99.5-2 99.5-3 100.3-1 100.3-2 101.1-1 101.1-2 101.9-1 101.9-2 102.7-1 103.5-1 103.5-2 103.5-3 104.3-1 104.3-2 104.3-3 105.1-1 105.1-2 105.9-1 105.9-2 106.7-1 106.7-2 107.5-1

By callsign	KDTI KEC63 W224CC W228CJ W232CA W244DL W252BX W260CB W268CN W280EL W284BQ W288BK W292DK W296CG WAHS WBFH WBLD WCAR WCHB WCSX WCXI WDET-FM WDFN WDMK WDRQ WDTE WDTK WDTP WDTW WDTW-FM WDVD WDZH WERW WEXL WFCB-LP WFDF WGPR WHFR WHMI-FM WHPR-FM WJLB WJR WKQI WLQV WMGC-FM WMKM WMUZ WMXD WNIC WNZK WNUC-LP WOMC WOVI WPHS WPON WPYF269 WPZR WRCJ-FM WRDT WRIF WSMF WSDP WSDS WSHJ WTAC WUFL WUOM WVMV WWJ WXOU WXYT WXYT-FM WYCD

Defunct	WBRB / WWHK 1430

Nearby radio markets Ann Arbor Cleveland Flint Lansing London Sandusky South Central MI Southwestern Ontario Thumb of MI Toledo See also List of radio stations in Michigan ¹ The Detroit K-Love transmitters (such as W296CG) are fed by WMXD-HD2, as stated on their on-air identifications

NPR member stations in the state of Michigan

Michigan Radio	Ann Arbor WUOM Flint WFUM Grand Rapids WVGR

CMU Public Radio	Alpena WCML-FM Bay City WUCX-FM Harbor Springs WCMW-FM Mt. Pleasant WCMU-FM Oscoda WCMB-FM Sault Ste. Marie WCMZ-FM Standish WWCM

Interlochen Public Radio	East Jordan WICV Harbor Springs WHBP Interlochen WIAA Mackinaw City WIAB Manistee WLMN Traverse City WICA

WGVU Radio	Allendale WGVU-FM Kentwood WGVU Muskegon WGVS Whitehall WGVS-FM

Other stations	Berrien Springs WAUS Detroit WDET-FM East Lansing WKAR East Lansing WKAR-FM Grand Rapids WBLU-FM Houghton WGGL-FM Kalamazoo WMUK Marquette WNMU-FM Twin Lake WBLV Ypsilanti WEMU

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 Michigan

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