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'''WUOT''' (91.9 [[FM broadcasting|FM]]) is the [[National Public Radio]] member station in [[Knoxville, Tennessee]]. Owned by the [[University of Tennessee]], it airs a mix of news, classical music and jazz, along with programming from NPR, [[American Public Media]] and [[Public Radio International]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WUOT |title=WUOT Facility Record |work=United States [[Federal Communications Commission]], audio division }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.arbitron.com/sip/displaySip.do?surveyID=SU08&band=fm&callLetter=WUOT|title=WUOT Station Information Profile|publisher=[[Arbitron]]}}</ref> The station is also broadcast on [[HD radio]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hdradio.com/ |title=HD Radio Station Guide |work=HD Radio |publisher=iBiquity }}</ref> It primarily features [[classical music]] programming, but carries NPR news programs daily, as well as [[jazz music]] for ninety minutes every weeknight and all evening on Fridays and [[folk music]] Saturday evenings. Its studios are located in the Communications Building on the UT campus.
'''WUOT''' (91.9 [[FM broadcasting|FM]]) is the [[National Public Radio]] member station in [[Knoxville, Tennessee]]. Owned by the [[University of Tennessee]], it airs a mix of news, classical music and jazz, along with programming from NPR, [[American Public Media]] and [[Public Radio International]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WUOT |title=WUOT Facility Record |work=United States [[Federal Communications Commission]], audio division }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.arbitron.com/sip/displaySip.do?surveyID=SU08&band=fm&callLetter=WUOT|title=WUOT Station Information Profile|publisher=[[Arbitron]]}}</ref> The station is also broadcast on [[HD radio]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hdradio.com/ |title=HD Radio Station Guide |work=HD Radio |publisher=iBiquity }}</ref> It primarily features [[classical music]] programming, but carries NPR news programs daily, as well as [[jazz music]] for ninety minutes every weeknight and all evening on Fridays and [[folk music]] Saturday evenings. Its studios are located in the Communications Building on the UT campus.

==History==

On June 2, 1949, the University of Tennessee filed with the [[Federal Communications Commission]] for a construction permit to build a new noncommercial FM radio station in Knoxville.<ref name="hc">{{FCC letter|letterid=70907|callsign=WUOT|hcards=yes}}</ref> The FCC approved the application a month later, at which time the university announced that it was building studios on the ground floor of Ayres Hall and had bought equipment from defunct radio station WKPB.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37972176/|title=Commission OK's FM Station at U-T|date=July 8, 1949|accessdate=October 27, 2019|work=Knoxville News-Sentinel|page=9}}</ref> WKPB had been a commercial station on 93.3 FM owned by the ''[[Knoxville Journal]]'' that broadcast from October 15, 1947<ref>{{cite news|title=FM Outlet of 'Knoxville Journal' Takes the Air|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1947/1947-10-27-BC.pdf|accessdate=October 18, 2014|work=Broadcasting|date=October 27, 1947|page=29}}</ref> to April 15, 1949;<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37956084/|work=The Greeneville Sun|title=Knoxville Radio Station Off Air|accessdate=October 27, 2019|date=April 19, 1949|page=3}}</ref> the ''Journal'', citing the uncertainty created by the advent of television, shuttered the station and sold its equipment to the university and its records to the general public.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37956089/|work=The Knoxville Journal|date=April 20, 1949|title=For Sale! WKPB Records|page=14|accessdate=October 27, 2019}}</ref>

'''WUOT''' signed on October 27, 1949.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37973412/|title=U-T Radio WUOT Now On The Air|page=4|date=October 28, 1949|accessdate=October 27, 2019|work=Knoxville Journal}}</ref> The station's first regular programming schedule included broadcasts for five and a half hours a day, and it boasted two full-time staff. WUOT broadcast informational programs, classical music, and reports of student activities, and was entirely operated by students.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37973911/|work=Knoxville News-Sentinel|title=Student-Operated Radio Station at U-T Offers Adult Entertainment|page=C-8|date=April 9, 1950|accessdate=October 27, 2019}}</ref> The radio station's facilities also provided a home for the university's offering of 25 radio programs, which were heard in 1950 on 17 commercial radio stations in Tennessee.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37974149/|work=The Knoxville Journal|date=October 1, 1950|accessdate=October 27, 2019|title=WUOT, Knoxville's educational FM station...|page=6-D}}</ref>

Originally broadcasting with 3,500 watts, the station was approved to increase power to 70,500 watts in 1955,{{r|hc}} with the station resuming operations from its new facilities on November 29.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37975537/|work=Knoxville News-Sentinel|date=November 30, 1955|title=WUOT on Air With New Power|page=23|accessdate=October 27, 2019}}</ref> This was made possible when station WROL gave the university a higher-power antenna; the transmitter was relocated to a parcel of university-owned land near the John Tarleton Institute.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37974637/|date=March 24, 1955|work=Knoxville News-Sentinel|title=U-T Radio Station To Step Up Power|accessdate=October 27, 2019|page=25}}</ref> WROL had operated an FM station until 1951.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37975142/|title=Channel 26 To Use WROL FM Tower|work=Knoxville News-Sentinel|date=May 23, 1953|page=6|accessdate=October 27, 2019}}</ref> A large crane was necessary to extend the tower a further {{convert|75|ft|m|sp=us}}.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37975428/|work=Knoxville News-Sentinel|page=7|date=October 29, 1955|title=WUOT Tower Extended 75 Feet|accessdate=October 27, 2019}}</ref> The increase brought WUOT to listeners in Bristol, Chattanooga, and as far away as [[Asheville, North Carolina]], and [[Blue Ridge, Georgia]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37975637/|date=January 1, 1956|title=Letters Indicate WUOT Is Serving All E-T Areas|page=B-12|work=Knoxville News-Sentinel|accessdate=October 27, 2019}}</ref> The WUOT transmitter was relocated to [[Sharp's Ridge]] in 1961.{{r|hc}} In 1968, the station boosted its power to the maximum 100,000 watts and began stereo broadcasts.<ref>{{cite news|work=Jackson Sun|date=July 10, 1968|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37975914/|title=U-T Radio Station Boosts Power For Stereo Broadcasts|accessdate=October 27, 2019|page=8-A}}</ref> In 1971, the station added additional hours of jazz music to its schedule in response to requests from inmates at the [[Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary]].<ref>{{cite news|agency=Associated Press|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37977432/|title=The classically-oriented University of Tennessee...|date=April 8, 1971|work=Johnson City Press|accessdate=October 27, 2019|page=23}}</ref>


The station began operations on October 27, 1949. Future U.S. Senator [[Howard Baker]], then president of UT's student government, helped launch the station. Originally operating at only 3,000 watts, it now provides at least secondary coverage to most of central eastern [[Tennessee]], extreme western [[North Carolina]], and parts of southeastern [[Kentucky]].
The station began operations on October 27, 1949. Future U.S. Senator [[Howard Baker]], then president of UT's student government, helped launch the station. Originally operating at only 3,000 watts, it now provides at least secondary coverage to most of central eastern [[Tennessee]], extreme western [[North Carolina]], and parts of southeastern [[Kentucky]].

Revision as of 18:51, 27 October 2019

WUOT
Broadcast areaKnoxville
Frequency91.9 MHz (HD Radio)
BrandingUT Public Radio
Programming
FormatClassical music
AffiliationsAmerican Public Media, National Public Radio, Public Radio International
Ownership
OwnerUniversity of Tennessee
History
First air date
October 27, 1949
Call sign meaning
University of Tennessee
Technical information
Facility ID69161
ClassC
ERP65,000 watts
HAAT534.0 meters
Transmitter coordinates
35°59′44.00″N 83°57′23.00″W / 35.9955556°N 83.9563889°W / 35.9955556; -83.9563889
Links
WebcastListen Live
WebsiteOfficial website

WUOT (91.9 FM) is the National Public Radio member station in Knoxville, Tennessee. Owned by the University of Tennessee, it airs a mix of news, classical music and jazz, along with programming from NPR, American Public Media and Public Radio International.[1][2] The station is also broadcast on HD radio.[3] It primarily features classical music programming, but carries NPR news programs daily, as well as jazz music for ninety minutes every weeknight and all evening on Fridays and folk music Saturday evenings. Its studios are located in the Communications Building on the UT campus.

History

On June 2, 1949, the University of Tennessee filed with the Federal Communications Commission for a construction permit to build a new noncommercial FM radio station in Knoxville.[4] The FCC approved the application a month later, at which time the university announced that it was building studios on the ground floor of Ayres Hall and had bought equipment from defunct radio station WKPB.[5] WKPB had been a commercial station on 93.3 FM owned by the Knoxville Journal that broadcast from October 15, 1947[6] to April 15, 1949;[7] the Journal, citing the uncertainty created by the advent of television, shuttered the station and sold its equipment to the university and its records to the general public.[8]

WUOT signed on October 27, 1949.[9] The station's first regular programming schedule included broadcasts for five and a half hours a day, and it boasted two full-time staff. WUOT broadcast informational programs, classical music, and reports of student activities, and was entirely operated by students.[10] The radio station's facilities also provided a home for the university's offering of 25 radio programs, which were heard in 1950 on 17 commercial radio stations in Tennessee.[11]

Originally broadcasting with 3,500 watts, the station was approved to increase power to 70,500 watts in 1955,[4] with the station resuming operations from its new facilities on November 29.[12] This was made possible when station WROL gave the university a higher-power antenna; the transmitter was relocated to a parcel of university-owned land near the John Tarleton Institute.[13] WROL had operated an FM station until 1951.[14] A large crane was necessary to extend the tower a further 75 feet (23 m).[15] The increase brought WUOT to listeners in Bristol, Chattanooga, and as far away as Asheville, North Carolina, and Blue Ridge, Georgia.[16] The WUOT transmitter was relocated to Sharp's Ridge in 1961.[4] In 1968, the station boosted its power to the maximum 100,000 watts and began stereo broadcasts.[17] In 1971, the station added additional hours of jazz music to its schedule in response to requests from inmates at the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary.[18]

The station began operations on October 27, 1949. Future U.S. Senator Howard Baker, then president of UT's student government, helped launch the station. Originally operating at only 3,000 watts, it now provides at least secondary coverage to most of central eastern Tennessee, extreme western North Carolina, and parts of southeastern Kentucky.

References

  1. ^ "WUOT Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. ^ "WUOT Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
  3. ^ "HD Radio Station Guide". HD Radio. iBiquity.
  4. ^ a b c FCC History Cards for WUOT
  5. ^ "Commission OK's FM Station at U-T". Knoxville News-Sentinel. July 8, 1949. p. 9. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  6. ^ "FM Outlet of 'Knoxville Journal' Takes the Air" (PDF). Broadcasting. October 27, 1947. p. 29. Retrieved October 18, 2014.
  7. ^ "Knoxville Radio Station Off Air". The Greeneville Sun. April 19, 1949. p. 3. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  8. ^ "For Sale! WKPB Records". The Knoxville Journal. April 20, 1949. p. 14. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  9. ^ "U-T Radio WUOT Now On The Air". Knoxville Journal. October 28, 1949. p. 4. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  10. ^ "Student-Operated Radio Station at U-T Offers Adult Entertainment". Knoxville News-Sentinel. April 9, 1950. p. C-8. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  11. ^ "WUOT, Knoxville's educational FM station..." The Knoxville Journal. October 1, 1950. p. 6-D. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  12. ^ "WUOT on Air With New Power". Knoxville News-Sentinel. November 30, 1955. p. 23. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  13. ^ "U-T Radio Station To Step Up Power". Knoxville News-Sentinel. March 24, 1955. p. 25. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  14. ^ "Channel 26 To Use WROL FM Tower". Knoxville News-Sentinel. May 23, 1953. p. 6. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  15. ^ "WUOT Tower Extended 75 Feet". Knoxville News-Sentinel. October 29, 1955. p. 7. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  16. ^ "Letters Indicate WUOT Is Serving All E-T Areas". Knoxville News-Sentinel. January 1, 1956. p. B-12. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  17. ^ "U-T Radio Station Boosts Power For Stereo Broadcasts". Jackson Sun. July 10, 1968. p. 8-A. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  18. ^ "The classically-oriented University of Tennessee..." Johnson City Press. Associated Press. April 8, 1971. p. 23. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
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