Radio station in Georgia, United States
WUGA
(91.7
MHz
) is a
public
FM
radio station
serving
Athens
and much of the northeast part of
Georgia
. It is a member of
Georgia Public Broadcasting
's radio network but is operated by the
University of Georgia
, with
studios
and offices located at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on the UGA campus. The
transmitter
is located off Walter Sams Road in
Winterville, Georgia
, southeast of Athens.
[2]
The station's programming consists of news and public affairs,
classical music
,
jazz
and
folk music
from GPB Radio, as well as locally-produced content.
[3]
On March 1, 2010, UGA announced budget cuts that, if approved, would have resulted in the end of locally-produced programming on the station. It would then have become a full-time relay of the GPB network.
[4]
However, as of January 20, 2011
[update]
, WUGA remains operated by UGA, and during the early 2010s its operations were consolidated with
WUGA-TV
, a television station UGA owned at the time.
[5]
Translators
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Since 1993, the station has operated a low-powered
FM translator
- originally
W250AC
at 97.9. It moved to 94.5 as W233CA on March 23, 2017. This "fill-in" transmitter was added to improve reception in the downtown Athens area, which can be poor due to
terrain shielding
and the main transmitter's relatively modest power (6,000 watts). The University of Georgia also owns a student-operated
college radio
station,
WUOG
(90.5), which broadcasts and transmits from another location on campus. The two stations' operations are entirely separate from each other.
There are two other supposed translators that are listed in the FCC database as relays of the station.
[6]
However, these are licensed to Radio Assist Ministry, a religious organization not associated with GPB or UGA. They are not listed by GPB, or given a
station ID
on the air, making them highly questionable.
There was a third such translator,
W300BF
107.9 MHz in
Commerce, Georgia
, which, under RAM, repeated WUGA. That repeater was sold to Athens Christian Radio, Inc. in 2007. FCC records show it switched its programming source to
WMJE
in
Clarkesville
.
[7]
References
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]
- ^
"Facility Technical Data for WUGA"
.
Licensing and Management System
.
Federal Communications Commission
.
- ^
Radio-Locator.com/WUGA
- ^
"About"
. Archived from
the original
on 2013-02-17
. Retrieved
2009-03-04
.
- ^
Shearer, Lee (March 1, 2010).
"UGA budget idea include silencing WUGA, laying off 1,400, closing 4-H"
.
Athens Banner-Herald
. Retrieved
March 3,
2010
.
- ^
Melancon, Merritt (January 20, 2011).
"WUGA-TV aims to fit in with GPB, increase local focus"
.
Athens Banner-Herald
. Retrieved
January 21,
2011
.
- ^
http://www.recnet.com/cdbs/fmq.php?call=wuga
[
dead link
]
- ^
FCC data for W300BF
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