WNED-FM
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| City of license | WNED-FM: Buffalo, New York WNJA: Jamestown, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Western New York/Toronto |
| Branding | Classical 94.5 WNED |
| Slogan | Your Classical Music Station |
| Frequency | WNED-FM: 94.5 MHz WNJA: 89.7 MHz |
| First air date | WNED-FM: June 6, 1960 WNJA: January 18, 1991 |
| Format | Classical music |
| ERP | WNED-FM: 94,000 watts WNJA: 6,000 watts |
| HAAT | WNED-FM: 220.5 meters WNJA: 230 meters |
| Class | WNED-FM: B WNJA: B |
| Callsign meaning | WNED-FM: same as WNED-TV WNJA: WNED JAmestown |
| Former callsigns | WEBR-FM (1960-early 1970s) WBCE (early 1970s-?) WREZ (?-1977) |
| Owner | Western New York Public Broadcasting Association |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.wned.org/radio |
WNED-FM is an American radio station broadcasting in Buffalo, New York, at a frequency of 94.5 MHz. It offers a classical music format.
WNED-FM simulcasts its classical format on WNJA 89.7 FM in Jamestown, New York.
Contents
History
WNED-FM was launched on June 6, 1960, as WEBR-FM. In the early 1970s, it was renamed WBCE and then WREZ. In 1975, the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association bought it and WEBR. In 1977, it was renamed WNED-FM and began offering a classical music format that same year.
WNED-FM celebrated its thirtieth anniversary of broadcasting all classical music in April 2007. It is the only station broadcasting only classical music 24 hours serving the Buffalo/Toronto market. WNED-FM airs a combination of classical music programs created locally and nationally syndicated.
Concert broadcasts
Nationally syndicated broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the Chicago Symphony can be heard on WNED-FM. Additionally, Philharmonic Friday features the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.[1]
Local programs
WNED-FM has an extensive music library, which allows them to produce local programming from 6AM to 8PM daily and throughout much of the weekend. WNED also produces a Fine Arts Report for Western New York and Southern Ontario, which can be heard multiple times daily and found at wned.org.
Hosts
The station maintains a large staff filling various day parts. Bob Krum starts off the day by hosting "Morning Classics" from 6 to 10 a.m., followed by Peter Hall hosting the midday shift from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Bob Berkman hosts "Afternoon Classics" from 2 to 6 p.m.
The "Evening Classics" program has a number of hosts including Ed. Simone, Carl Lam, Virginia Barron, and Lynn Engle which airs weekdays from 6 to 9 p.m.
Other staff members include weekend hosts Steve Levinthal, Jim Berryman, John Andres, Stratton Rawson, Laura Johnson, Bill Raffel, and Marty Wimmer.
Other programming sources
Programming also comes from NPR (From the Top) and American Public Media (Exploring Music, (Pipedreams)). During weekday drive times, news updates from the BBC World Service can be heard.
In addition to its classical music format, it is also the radio home of APM's A Prairie Home Companion in the Buffalo area; WNED has brought the show to Buffalo twice for a live performance.
See also
References
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External links
- Official site
- History of WNED on the radio
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WNED
- Radio-Locator information on WNED
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WNED
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WNJA
- Radio-Locator information on WNJA
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WNJA
- List of "grandfathered" FM radio stations in the U.S.
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