WFTE
- For the television station in Louisville, Kentucky, known as WFTE from 1990 to 2006, see WMYO
| City of license | Mount Cobb, Pennsylvania |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Greater Scranton, PA |
| Branding | WFTE Community Radio |
| Slogan | Powered By the People |
| Frequency | 90.3 MHz |
| First air date | 2011 |
| Format | Community |
| ERP | 3,000 watts |
| HAAT | 29 meters (95 feet) |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 172918 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°23′09″N 75°24′07″W / 41.38583°N 75.40194°W |
| Owner | (Community Radio Collective, Inc.) |
| Website | wfte.org |
WFTE (90.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Mount Cobb, Pennsylvania. The station's licensee is Community Radio Collective, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization.
WFTE Community Radio plans to go live on the air in February 2011.[1] With translator W289AU on 105.7 FM, WFTE Community Radio will broadcast to around 300,000 residents in the greater Scranton, PA area.[2]
[edit] WFTE Mission Statement
WFTE's mission is "to create and provide high quality, innovative and community-oriented programming serving communities, information, and ideas that are ignored, suppressed, overlooked, or underserved by the mainstream media." [3]
WFTE's programming will be "dedicated to the progressive values of social justice, economic justice, human rights, multiculturalism, environmentalism, freedom of expression, and democracy." [3]
[edit] References
- ^ Durkin, Jessica (2010-08-21). "Room on the Dial: Group Wants Community Radio in Scranton". New America Foundation's Sustaining Democracy in a Digital Age Blog. http://mediapolicy.newamerica.net/blogposts/2010/room_on_the_dial_group_wants_community_radio_in_scranton-35857.
- ^ Borthwick, Tom (2010-08-23). "WFTE – Community Radio". NEPArtisan. http://nepartisan.com/?p=1944.
- ^ a b Rosen, Jake (2010-09-16). "WFTE: Community Radio". NEPArtisan. http://nepartisan.com/?p=2127.
[edit] External links
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WFTE
- Radio-Locator information on WFTE
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WFTE
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