WWEB

WWEB
City of license Wallingford, Connecticut
Broadcast area New Haven
Frequency 89.9 MHz
Format Variety
ERP 15 watts
HAAT -5.0 meters
Class D
Facility ID 10861
Transmitter coordinates 41°27′34″N 72°48′48″W / 41.45944°N 72.81333°W
Callsign meaning Wallingford Educational Broadcasting[1]
Owner Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation
Website Official website

WWEB (89.9 FM) is a high school radio station broadcasting a Variety music format. Licensed to Wallingford, Connecticut, USA, the station serves the New Haven area. The station is currently owned by Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation.[2][3] WWEB features student and faculty programs supplemented with the programming of WWUH from the University of Hartford.

History

It is believed that WWEB first signed on in 1969. In the early days the station was on the third floor north attic of the building that we called the Science building (now Humanities) The wide studio shot shows some album poster art. They used a Bauer 5-pot slide board. The transmitter was on a cabinet right behind the turntables, made by Granger. The transmitter fed a 7/8” line up to the roof where a 2-bay horizontal V only antenna was mounted on a pole or small tower section.

References

  1. ↑ "Call Letter Origins". Radio History on the Web.
  2. ↑ "WWEB Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ "WWEB Station Information Profile". Arbitron.

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