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Salem State University has surrendered the license of 91.7 WMWM Salem MA

PTBoardOp93 said:
Their actual website was wmwmsalem.org,
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That domain forwards to the university site for the station. No streaming link there.

salemstate.presence.io

WMWM 91.7 Salem

<p>WMWM is Salem State University's college radio station. We provide a diverse mix of programming for the Salem State and North Shore community. We are an alternate station, meaning we do not play Top 40 music. WMWM is student ran and an FCC licensed educational radio station. </p><p>You can...
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PTBoardOp93 said:
Mr. Nelson has been deceased for almost a year, so he could not have done much of anything recently. Their actual website was wmwmsalem.org, although I suspect they set that up after the school forced out the non-student volunteers.
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if wmwmsalem.org is that recent, it is only b/c it's a replacement for something much much older. they've had websites at least 25 years now, i believe, and online sources put streaming itself at either 2004 or 2008.

alchetron.com

WMWM - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

WMWM is a noncommercial radio station at 91.7 Megahertz in Salem, Massachusetts, licensed to Salem State University. The station was founded as WSSC AM 640 (carrier current) in 1968 and became WMWM at 91.7 FM in 1976 with a power of 10 watts. Power was increased to 130 watts in 1978. The station fe
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i would have guessed more like 2012, but whatever. it certainly wasn't 2-3 years ago (when the community DJs got the boot) !!

but that does seem to be the time frame in which bob claimed the website as his own.

how old are wmwm.org, wmwmradio.org, and wmwmonline.org, for comparison? i don't know how to check these things anymore, since whois stopped being public.

there might have been a "dot-net" or two along the way as well; i could never keep them all straight. every 5 years or so, they'd announce a new/different website, like something had happened to the previous one.
 
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The news that WMWM is gone makes me sad, especially as this was a milestone anniversary year for the station. In the spring of 1975, the campus radio station known as WSSC (carrier current AM 640, heard in the dorms only) applied for an over-the-air FM frequency in Salem. Less than a year later, WMWM 91.7 took to the airwaves, the North Shore’s first stereo FM station. While I’m disappointed WMWM will not be celebrating its 50th birthday in early 1976, I will be forever proud of the group that came together in 1975 to build it. Getting the Board of Trustee’s permission, applying for the FCC license, raising the money it took to buy the transmitter and all new audio gear, securing suitable tower and studio locations, picking the call letters and a hundred more details became a labor of love.

All that said, I’m sure my co-founders Sam Whitmore, Rob Pierce, Kevin Concannon, Mark Molloy, Peter Martel, and others are proud of what we built together, and which lasted as long as it did. My own 50+ year career in broadcasting continues to be shaped in many ways by my early days at WMWM. I hope other station alumni, whether they continued in the broadcasting field after Salem State or not, enjoyed their radio kinship and remember it as fondly as I do.
 
As was speculated as a possibility, UMass Boston now has a CP to "let out" the directional pattern of its WUMB Boston repeater WNEF 91.7 Newburyport toward the south to fill in some of the former WMWM's coverage area on the upper North Shore, and increase its power from 1000 to 1800 watts.
 


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