WYPL

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WYPL
City of license Memphis, Tennessee
Broadcast area Memphis
Branding The Info Hub Of The Midsouth
Frequency 89.3 MHz
Format radio reading service
Audience share 0.3 (FALL 2007, RRC[1])
ERP 100,000 watts
HAAT 382.0 meters
Class C0
Facility ID 13996
Transmitter coordinates 35°28′3.00″N 90°11′27.00″W / 35.4675000°N 90.1908333°W / 35.4675000; -90.1908333
Callsign meaning Your Public Library
Former callsigns WLYX; WTTL (West Tennessee Talking Library)
Affiliations BBC News
WMC-TV
audio simulcast of NBC Nightly News
Owner Memphis Public Library & Info Center
Website Official website

WYPL (89.3 FM) is a non-commercial radio station that serves the area of Memphis, Tennessee, in the United States. The station is currently owned by Memphis Public Library & Info Center and provides a radio reading service to patrons.[2][3]

Volunteers present daily readings of The Commercial Appeal, USA Today, and other newspapers. The station also features book readings, author interviews, news programming provided by BBC News, and audio simulcasts of the midday newscasts of WMC-TV (Channel 5), along with the NBC Nightly News. The station has been selected by the American Foundation for the Blind as the Model Radio Reading Service. [4]

Locally produced programs include Book Talk, which features interviews with authors; Library News; Eye On Vision, which features interviews with doctors and also provides information on research and development in vision and eye care; and Night Owl, a story-telling program aimed at children 6 and under.[5]

Memphis Public Library and Information Center and WYPL were awarded the National Medal of Museum and Library Services: the highest honor given libraries in the United States. The award was presented in a 2008 ceremony at the White House.[6]

It was unknown exactly when the station first signed on the air; the station first went on the air as WLYX, a station owned by Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College), and was known as "The Alternative." The free format station was operated by a volunteer staff with broadly eclectic taste, and was widely influential in bringing punk and new wave to the Memphis market in the early 1980s.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Memphis Market Ratings". Radio Research Consortium (Arbitron). FALL 2007. 
  2. ↑ "WYPL Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. 
  3. ↑ "WYPL Station Information Profile". Arbitron. 
  4. ↑ "WYPL 89.3". Memphis Public Library. 
  5. ↑ "WYPL Schedule". 
  6. ↑ Sullivan, Bartholomew (January 15, 2008). "Memphis Library honored at White House ceremony". Memphis Commercial Appeal. Retrieved 2008-10-14. 

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