WNAS

WNAS
City	New Albany, Indiana
Broadcast area	Louisville, Kentucky
Slogan	"The Voice of the Bulldogs" / "The Voice of the Highlanders"
Frequency	88.1 FM
First air date	1949
Format	High School
ERP	2,950 watts
HAAT	1 meter (3.28 ft)
Class	A
Facility ID	48372
Transmitter coordinates	38°17′56″N 85°48′45″W / 38.29889°N 85.81250°W / 38.29889; -85.81250
Owner	New Albany/Floyd County Consolidated Schools
Website	wnas.org

WNAS (88.1 FM) is the student-run high school radio station of New Albany High School and Floyd Central High School in southern Indiana, (along with WNAS-TV). The station's call letters, WNAS, reflect the ownership by the New Albany Floyd County School Corporation. The first FM student-run high school radio station to be licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC),^[1] WNAS has been broadcasting live since May 1949.^[2]

Management

Jerry Weaver served as the general manager from 1960 to 1969, followed later by Lee Kelly who held this post from 1973 to 2013. Jason Flener, former assistant principal for NAHS, and a former WNAS student staff member, replaced Kelly beginning in the 2013-2014 school year.

Programming

WNAS can be picked up throughout all of the Louisville metropolitan area and is known for its eclectic programming. The station broadcasts music 24 hours a day and also covers boys and girls basketball, football, baseball and volleyball for both New Albany and Floyd Central. The station provides streaming audio from its website.

Television

WNAS also occupies a cable television channel on which local-interest interviews are conducted, as well as game show contest for elementary school students: Spellbound, Math-a-Thon, and Challenge. Other highlights of the television station are the annual spelling bee and Floyd County election coverage (both of which are also carried on the radio station).

Studio

Recently, Floyd Central completed a renovation of its entire studios, both TV and radio. These studios are considered by many local TV and radio personalities to be better than their own. Sarah Jordan of 99.7 WDJX even told students at Floyd Central, "Become a part of the Radio/TV program because the stuff you all are using is a lot better than what I have."

References

↑ Steve Warren (12 October 2004). Radio: The Book: The Book. Taylor & Francis US. pp. 16–. ISBN 978-0-240-80696-9. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
↑ John E. Kleber (2001). The Encyclopedia of Louisville. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 988–. ISBN 978-0-8131-2100-0. Retrieved 17 December 2012.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WNAS

Radio-Locator information on WNAS

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WNAS

Radio stations in the Louisville, Kentucky market

By AM frequency	620 680 790 840 900 940 970 1040 1080 1220 1240 1270 1350 1450 1550 1570 1600

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 89.3 90.5 91.9 92.7 93.1 93.9 94.7 95.3 95.7 96.5 97.5 98.9 99.7 100.5 101.3 101.7 102.3 103.1 103.5 103.9 104.3 105.1 105.3 105.7 105.9 106.9 107.7

NOAA Weather Radio frequencies	162.450 162.475 162.5 162.550

By callsign	KIH43 KIH43A KZZ64 WAKY WAKY-FM WAMZ WAYI WAYK WCND WDJX WFBR-LP WFHS-LP WFIA WFIA-FM WFPK WFPL WGHL WGTK WGZB-FM WHAS WHBE WHBE-FM WJIE-FM WKJK WKRD WLCL WLCR WLGX WLLV WLOU WLRS WMJM WMPI WNAS WNDA WNRW WOCC WQMF WQNU WRKA WSFR WSLM WTFX-FM WUOL-FM WVEZ WVKY WXGO WXMA WXVW WZ2523

Defunct	WXBH-LP/92.7

Nearby radio markets Bloomington-Columbus Bowling Green Cincinnati Evansville Indianapolis Lexington–Fayette Owensboro See also List of radio stations in Kentucky List of radio stations in Indiana

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