WWFM
 | |
| Frequency | 89.1 MHz (HD Radio)
(HD Radio via WYPA-HD2) |
|---|---|
| Branding | The Classical Network |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Format | FM/HD1: Classical HD2: Jazz "JazzOn2" HD3: MCCC Student Radio "Viking 89" |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Mercer County Community College |
| History | |
First air date | September 6, 1982 |
Call sign meaning | WWFM (As in this station is FM) |
| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 41194 |
| Class | A |
| ERP | 1,150 watts |
| HAAT | 89 meters (292 feet) |
| Translator(s) | See § Translators |
| Repeater(s) | See § Other Classical Network stations |
| Links | |
| Webcast | Listen Live Listen Live (HD2) |
| Website | wwfm.org |
WWFM (FM, "The Classical Network") is a classical music radio station, which is owned and operated by Mercer County Community College. The flagship station is licensed to the Trenton/Princeton area and operates from the West Windsor campus of MCCC. The Classical Network owns and operates WWFM, WWNJ, WWCJ, and WWPJ. It also broadcasts in the Philadelphia market on digital (HD) radio on 89.5 HD2.
The Classical Network offers exclusive specialty programs including The Piano Matters, What Makes It Great, Between the Keys, Kid on Keys, PostClassical, The Dress Circle, Sounds Choral, Well-Tempered Baroque, Distant Mirror, Half Past, In A Broadway Minute, The Lyric Stage, The Lost Chord, Picture Perfect, Bach at One, Celebrating Our Music Future, and Celebrating Our Musical Community. The Classical Network partners with prestigious music schools, professional ensembles and concert series presenters for concert broadcasts including Princeton University, Westminster Choir College, Manhattan School of Music, Columbia University, Mannes School of Music, Rutgers University, Temple University, Oberlin College, Northwestern University, The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, The Princeton Symphony Orchestra and The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
The Classical Network is award-winning, having won the 2014 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Radio Broadcast Award for WWFM and for the program "Cadenza," produced and hosted by David Osenberg. In 2017 WWFM Artist-in-Residence Jed Distler won the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for his WWFM program "Between the Keys." "The Piano Matters" host David Dubal has also been recognized with an ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award as well as with a George Foster Peabody Award for his previous work in radio and as an author. WWFM hosts Rachel Katz and Bill Zagorski have been recognized with a New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists Award for the program "Vera's Story," a story of survival through the Holocaust. WWFM's Ted Otten and Michael Kownacky have been awarded a National Federation of Community Broadcasters Silver Reel Award for their program "The Dress Circle."
In addition to the radio frequencies listed below, The Classical Network and JazzOn2 are heard worldwide through Internet streaming at www.wwfm.org.
HD multicasts
WWFM-HD2 is "JazzOn2", which runs a traditional Jazz format. WWFM-HD3 is "Viking 89", MCCC student radio. WXPN's XPoNential Radio service airs on the HD3 when Mercer students are not on the air. "JazzOn2" is also on the HD2 channel of WWNJ.
Other Classical Network stations
| Call sign | Frequency | City of license | ERP W |
Class | FCC info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WWCJ | 89.1 FM (HD) | Cape May, New Jersey | 13,500 | B1 | Template:FMQ |
| WWNJ | 91.1 FM (HD) | Toms River Township, New Jersey | 5,800 | A | Template:FMQ |
| WWPJ | 89.5 FM (HD) | Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania | 100 | A | Template:FMQ |
Translators
| Call sign | Frequency | City of license | FID | ERP (W) | Class | FCC info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K216FW | 91.1 FM FM | Steamboat Springs, Colorado | 10 | D | ||
| W224AU | 92.7 FM FM | Allentown, Pennsylvania | 8 | D | ||
| W245AC | 96.9 FM FM | Harmony Township, New Jersey | 10 | D |
| Call sign | Frequency | City of license | FID | ERP (W) | Class | FCC info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W226AA | 93.1 FM FM | Easton, Pennsylvania | 150 | D |
| Call sign | Frequency | City of license | FID | ERP (W) | Class | FCC info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W239AB | 91.3 FM | Dover, Delaware | 153 | D |
The Classical Network on HD2 in Philadelphia region
The Classical Network's programming is also available on the HD2 channel of WYPA in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on 89.5 HD2.
References
External links
- Official website
- Facility details for Facility ID WWFM ({{{2}}}) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- {{{2}}} in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
Other station data
- Facility details for Facility ID WWCJ ({{{2}}}) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- {{{2}}} in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
- Facility details for Facility ID WWNJ ({{{2}}}) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- {{{2}}} in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
- Facility details for Facility ID WWPJ ({{{2}}}) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- {{{2}}} in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
40°15′29″N 74°38′56″W / 40.258°N 74.649°W
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