WUNC-FM Opens Satellite Transmitter in the Triad

[Matt]

This week WUNC-FM began announcing the call sign of a new satellite transmitter, WUNW-FM in Welcome,NC as the 4th station on their network. According to FCC data, this station broadcasts on 91.1 MHz, with an ERP of 180 watts on a tower height 54 meters above average terrain.

In other words, it doesn't cover all of tiny Welcome, NC with city-grade signal. You might receive it as far north as I-40 in Winston-Salem or south as far as Lexington or west to Thomasville. This station is shoehorned in to the max and running a highly directional antenna just to pass the allocation study.

The FCC approved this station for WUNC six years ago, and they're just now getting around to building it. It sits right in the middle of the service area of WFDD, the public radio station from Wake Forest University, which runs similar news/talk programming during the day PLUS a good mix of Jazz and Classical at nights and on weekends.

My question (and the reason for opening this discussion) is...."Why is this station here?"

Later......

 

[ncairguy]

Because of transplants like me from the Triangle that think WUNC does a much more professional job than WFDD. WUNC really should be a statewide network like the television side.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Because of transplants like me from the Triangle that think WUNC does a much more professional job than WFDD. WUNC really should be a statewide network like the television side.

There was a plan for that.

But there aren't enough frequencies until someone decides to do away with channel 6.