WLIU
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WLIU is the National Public Radio affiliate radio station of Southampton College at 88.3 FM in Southampton (town), New York.
Local programming emanates from Southampton and it simulcasts WCWP 88.1 FM in Brookville, New York.
The station currently is operated by Long Island University. WCWP derives its call sign from C.W. Post Campus.
In 2006, the State University of New York at Stony Brook signed an agreement to take over the Southampton campus. The agreement calls for LIU to continue to operate the station through 2009 and to have rights to the Southampton broadcast antenna through 2024.
In addition its to NPR programming local programs include jazz, rhythm and blues, world music, and music from the Broadway theater.
Among the weekend programs in its Hamptons base The Eclectic Café, Friday Night Soul and American Musical Theater, The Splendid Table, Putumayo World Music Hour, Afropop, and Worldwide Jazz.
WLIU broadcasts at 25kW. WCWP broadcasts at 0.1kW.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WLIU
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WCWP
AM stations: 690 | 960 | 1390 | 1570 1
FM stations: 88.3 | 89.9 | 91.3 | 92.1 | 92.9/96.9 | 95.3 | 96.1 | 98.5 | 101.7 | 102.5
103.9 | 104.7 2| 105.3 | 106.1 | 107.1
FM stations (Long Island Market): 90.1 | 97.5 | FM stations (Connecticut): 99.1 | 99.9 | 107.9
1: Though licenced to Riverhead, New York, station primarily targets and operates from Dix Hills, New York.
2: Though licenced to Montauk, New York, station primarily targets and operates from Connecticut.
