WNCW
| City of license | Spindale, North Carolina |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Asheville, North Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina Greenville, South Carolina Boone, North Carolina |
| Frequency | 88.7 MHz Charlotte: 100.3 and 99.1 Greenville: 97.3 Boone: 92.9 |
| First air date | 1989-10-13 |
| Format | Album Adult Alternative/Americana |
| Power | 17,500 Watts |
| Class | C |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°44′06″N 82°17′11″W / 35.735°N 82.28639°W |
| Callsign meaning | Western North Carolina Window |
| Affiliations | National Public Radio & American Public Radio |
| Owner | Isothermal Community College |
| Webcast | [1] |
| Website | wncw.org |
WNCW (88.7 FM) is a noncommercial public radio station licensed to Isothermal Community College in Spindale, North Carolina, with a varied format including folk, blues, jazz, reggae, celtic, world, rock, bluegrass, indie and news. The station's call letters WNCW stand for Western North Carolina Windows.
The station's main signal, at 88.7 FM, covers a large broadcast area from a tower on Clingman's Peak near Mount Mitchell.[1] It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of about 17,500 Watts [2] but covers most of western North Carolina because of the tower's elevation. It operates four translators—92.9 FM in Boone, North Carolina, 100.3 FM and 99.1 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and 97.3 FM in Greenville, South Carolina. Combined with its translators, WNCW provides at least secondary coverage of portions of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia.
Until 2003, it operated a translator at 96.7 FM in Knoxville, Tennessee.[3] The station still has an application for a new translator in Knoxville.
WNCW also repeats its broadcast on the 1000 watt WSIF (90.9 FM) at Wilkes Community College Wilkes County, N. C.
[edit] History
In 1986, Isothermal Community College received support of the State of NC and the federal government to begin the process of planning and starting a public radio station for Western North Carolina along with the communities it would be serving.
1989 October 13, WNCW 88.7 signed on to its airwaves from the tower at Clingman's Peak of Mt. Mitchell. The earliest description of WNCW's original program said that the station weekday program was Crossroads, a program featuring a broad range of music genres, similar to today; in the evenings, listeners could hear classic radio dramas like the Lone Ranger and Sherlock Holmes followed by classical music.
1992 In July, The Alternative Radio Coalition began and ARC Overnight started.
1993 WNCW added a translator at 97.3 Greenville SC
1995 WNCW installed a translator in Boone in 1995.
1997 WNCW produced its first Crowd Around the Mic.
1999 WNCW began streaming programming on the internet.
[edit] References
- ^ Mike Benzie, "WNCW trying to clear air", Asheville Citizen-Times, April 1, 2003
- ^ FCC FM Database entry for WNCW
- ^ Metro Pulse/Citybeat
[edit] External links
- WNCW official website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WNCW
- Radio-Locator information on WNCW
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WNCW
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