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WNCW
City of license	Spindale, North Carolina
Broadcast area	Asheville, North Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina Greenville, South Carolina
Slogan	"Crossroads"
Frequency	88.7 MHz
First air date	1989-10-13
Format	Album Adult Alternative and beyond
Power	17,000 Watts
Class	C
Transmitter Coordinates	35°44′06″N 82°17′11″W / 35.735, -82.28639
Affiliations	[National Public Radio & American Public Radio]
Owner	Isothermal Community College
Webcast	[1]
Website	wncw.org

WNCW (88.7 FM) is a noncommercial public radio station licensed to Isothermal Community College in Spindale, North Carolina, with a Triple A/Americana format.

The station's main signal, at 88.7 FM, covers Asheville from a tower on Clingman's Peak near Mount Mitchell.^[1] Its main tower on Clingman's Peak has an effective radiated power (ERP) of about 17,000 Watts ^[2] but covers a larger listening area because of the tower's elevation. It operates three translators--92.9 FM in Boone, North Carolina, 100.3 FM in Charlotte, North Carolina, and 97.3 FM in Greenville, South Carolina.

Until 2003, it operated a translator at 96.7 FM in Knoxville, Tennessee.^[3] The station received a CP for a second translator in northeast Charlotte in late 2008 and still has applications for translators in Charlotte and Knoxville to improve coverage in those cities. The station hopes to have the second Charlotte translators on the air by 2010. Progress on a return to Knoxville is dependent upon FCC action and station resources.

Combined with its translators, WNCW provides at least secondary coverage of portions of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia

History

Now in its 20th year on the air, the station has played numerous styles of music though has never played classical or mainstream country. Artists featured in the past include The Grateful Dead, Ben Harper, Richard Thompson, Widespread Panic, Bruce Cockburn, Santana, and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. ^[4] At one time, WNCW aired the morning and afternoon newsmagazine shows Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and All Things Considered from National Public Radio, but the station decided to expand its music and cultural programming and discontinued airing these shows (though it continued to air hourly NPR and BBC headlines each morning and hourly NPR headlines throughout each weekday). ^[5] In August of 2008, WNCW returned NPR's Morning Edition to its morning drive time line up, dropped PRI/BBC's The World and began airing NPR News top-of-the-hour headlines exclusively. WNCW has a substantial global audience online via their webstream. Email requests have been received from all over the world and support comes from the same during their biannual pledge drives. Current On-Air Hosts include Martin Anderson, Dennis Jones, Joe Kendrick, Dave Kester, Sander Morrison, Roland Dierauf, Kit Strecker, Laura Blackley, Brad Watson and Morning Edition host Pam Bunch. Weekend programming includes jazz, bluegrass, bluegrass gospel, old time folk, blues, Celtic, and reggae. The station's evening and overnight programming has fewer boundaries and often ventures into genres and features artists rarely heard on the airwaves.

References

1. ^ Mike Benzie, "WNCW trying to clear air", Asheville Citizen-Times, April 1, 2003
2. ^ FCC FM Database entry for WNCW
3. ^ Metro Pulse/Citybeat
4. ^ Tony Kiss, "Happy Birthday, WNCW; Local Radio Station Celebrates 10 Years on the Air With a Fall Fund-Raising Drive", Asheville Citizen-Times, September 24, 1999
5. ^ Mike Benzie, "WNCW to drop 2 news shows - Move by Public Radio Station Upsets Some", Asheville Citizen-Times, December 19, 2002

External links

• WNCW official website
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WNCW
• Radio Locator information on WNCW

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