WMTU
WMTU-FM 91.9 is a campus radio station run by the students at Michigan Technological University. It is found in the basement of Wadsworth Hall, broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and is operated by a volunteer air staff, general staff, department heads, and a general manager. History The station's precursor, WVRW (Voice of Radio, Wadsworth), began broadcasting in 1956, as a carrier current AM station. It changed its callsign to WRS (Wadsworth Radio Service) two years later, to show that it now served all dormitories on campus. The current callsign "WMTU" was adopted in 1975. Two years after that change, WMTU began broadcasting as a cable FM station via the local cable television system. A 24-hour format, with three-hour shows, was adopted two years later in 1979. In 1993, WMTU received an FM broadcasting license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The following year, the station began over-the-air broadcasting from atop the Mechanical Engineering and Engi ...
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