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The University of Wisconsin-Madison was the founder of one of the earliest radio stations in America, WHA 970 AM. But that station has a professional staff and aims its programming at Madison and surrounding towns. The university wanted to have a college radio station to help students train for broadcasting careers and to serve the campus ...
WHA transmits on 970 AM from a 258-foot tower at Silver Spring Farm within the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum.It operates at 5,000 watts during the day. Although WHA's tower is relatively short by modern broadcasting standards, its transmitter power and Wisconsin's flat land (with near-perfect ground conductivity) gives it a daytime coverage area comparable to that of a full-power ...
The University of Wisconsin–Madison campus radio station is WSUM 91.7 FM, "The Snake on the Lake". [183] Historically, UW–Madison has been home to a collection of student run radio stations, a number of which stopped broadcasting after run-ins with the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
WHA-TV signed on the air on May 3, 1954, as the first educational station in Wisconsin and the seventh in the United States. WHA-TV is the only public television station in the country that maintains a three-letter callsign, and one of only three analog-era UHF stations altogether (along with WHP-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and WWJ-TV in Detroit) with a three-letter callsign.
WNWC-FM (102.5 MHz, "Life 102.5") is an American radio station broadcasting a Christian adult contemporary music format. Licensed to Madison, Wisconsin, United States, "Life 102.5" has an AM sister station, "Faith 1190" (), that broadcasts programs on Christian faith. [3]
The University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Educational Communications Board stations are administered by WHA Radio, a department of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, for the UW System Board of Regents. Other stations are affiliates, owned by local school districts or colleges.
WERN (88.7 FM) is a non-commercial public radio station in Madison, Wisconsin. It is part of Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR), and is the flagship of WPR's News Network along with AM sister station WHA. The studios are at 821 University Avenue in Madison. WERN is a Class B FM station, with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 20,500 watts.
June 19, 1985 (420 Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin campus: Madison: Georgian revival-style building designed by Paul Cret and Warren Laird, built in 1912, where Elmer McCollum discovered vitamins A and B, Harry Steenbock found that vitamin D could be concentrated by irradiating food, Conrad Elvehjem isolated niacin, and Karl Link isolated the anticoagulant dicoumarol.