WSFM-LP

WSFM
City of license	Asheville, North Carolina
Broadcast area	Asheville, NC
Branding	Asheville FM
Frequency	103.3 MHz
First air date	2015
Format	Variety
ERP	100 watts
HAAT	1.4 meters
Class	C2
Facility ID	195466
Transmitter coordinates	35°35′48″N 82°33′31″W / 35.59667°N 82.55861°W / 35.59667; -82.55861
Owner	Friends of Community Radio Inc.
Website	http://www.ashevillefm.org/

WSFM-LP, known as 103.3 Asheville FM, is a low-power radio station licensed to Asheville, North Carolina which began broadcasting on May 18, 2015.

Programming

Asheville FM offers a wide variety of programming, including music and talk.

"Stank Free Radio" has soul, R&B, funk and disco on Saturday evenings. Other music programs include "Closer to the Edge" with progressive rock on Thursday afternoons, and "Ultimate Twang" with classic and new country late Thursdays.^[1]

Talk shows include the local "AFM News Hour" on Thursday evenings and Democracy Now!^[1]

Programs that mix talk and music are "YayDJ" on Saturday mornings, for teenagers, and The Final Straw, with "radical" and "anarchist" content and world music, a show which also airs in California.^[1]

History

Asheville FM began in 2009 as an online radio station. During its time on the web, Asheville FM had as many as 1.7 million page views each month from 6,000 people. Since the Low-Power Community Radio Act of 2010, Asheville FM has had one chance, in 2013, to move to a broadcast frequency. From a 20-foot tower on top of the Hotel Indigo, Asheville FM's signal reaches a 5 to 10-mile radius, but terrain affects exactly where the signal can be heard.^[1]

All staff members are volunteers, and the station is a non-profit which gets its funding from underwriting, fund-raising twice a year, and memberships costing $20 a month. A permanent station manager will eventually be hired.^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 5 Patrick, Emily (May 16, 2015). "New radio station launches: Volunteer-powered Asheville FM". Asheville Citizen-Times. Retrieved May 16, 2015.

External links

Station website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WSFM

Radio-Locator information on WSFM

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WSFM

Radio stations in the Asheville, North Carolina market

By FM frequency	88.1 88.7 90.1 90.5 91.3 92.5 93.3 93.7 94.5 94.9 96.5 98.1 98.9 99.9 100.7 100.7 101.5 102.5 103.3 103.7 104.3 105.1 105.9 106.9

By AM frequency	540 570 720 880 970 1010 1230 1310 1350 1380 1450 1460 1590 1600

By callsign	W251AO WAEZ WBHN WCQS WEPR WESC-FM WFBC-FM WGCR WGTK-FM WHBK WHKP WISE WKJV WKJW WKSF WLFA WMIT WMYI WNCW WOXL-FM WPEK WPVM-LP WQNQ WQNS WQUT WRES-LP WRGC WSFM-LP WSKY WSPA-FM WTIJ-LP WTMT WTPT WTZQ WWNC WYQS WYSE WZGM

North Carolina radio markets Asheville Charlotte Fayetteville Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point Greenville–New Bern–Jacksonville Raleigh–Durham Other North Carolina radio regions Elizabeth City–Nags Head Roanoke Rapids–South Hill Rocky Mount–Wilson Wilmington See also List of radio stations in North Carolina

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