WJAB-FM

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WJAB-FM, 90.9, is a National Public Radio-affiliated station in Huntsville, Alabama. It primarily features jazz and blues music programming aimed toward African-American residents of the northern counties of Alabama and several counties in southern middle Tennessee. The station is licensed to Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (known as "Alabama A&M" for short) in Normal, Alabama, which is actually located within the city of Huntsville. WJAB-FM's signal travels in about a 50-mile radius. The Telecommunications Center of the University operates the station partly as a laboratory for student announcers, producers, and journalists.

[edit] History

Beginning in the late 1970s, Alabama A&M University made numerous attempts to obtain funding from the state of Alabama and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in order to establish a radio station of its own. The Telecommunications Center was best known during the 1970s and 1980s for producing a weekly public affairs and features show seen on Alabama Public Television, "Montage," directed toward the state's African-American community.

After years of bureaucratic wrangling and waiting for governments to afford the needed appropriations, AAMU realized its dream in early 1991. Since that time, the station has consistently placed the concerns of its listeners in very high regard with programming such as interview shows, music of all varieties throughout the Pan-African world, and live broadcasts of AAMU football and men's basketball games.

[edit] External links

• WJAB
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WJAB