WWEC (88.3
FM) is a student-run
campus radio
Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution. Programming may be exclusively created or produced ...
station. Owned by
Elizabethtown College in
Elizabethtown, PA in
Lancaster County, PA, United States, the station is operated by the College's Department of Communications and serves the greater Elizabethtown, PA area.
History
WWEC began broadcasting as a
carrier current
Carrier current transmission, originally called wired wireless, employs guided low-power Radio frequency, radio-frequency signals, which are transmitted along electrical conductors. The transmissions are picked up by receivers that are either conne ...
station as WWEC-AM 640 in 1963. In 1990, the
AM station went off the air as the station began airing at 88.3
FM. Temporarily using the call letters WQHE beginning April 19, 1990, the station changed its call letters to WWEC on July 16, 1990 and officially went on air on August 25, 1990.
On July 9, 2008, the College applied to the
Federal Communications Commission
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(FCC) for an STA order (Special Temporary Authority), however the filing was done on paper and details are not available online. On July 29, 2011, the station's license was cancelled and its call sign deleted by the FCC.
On November 28, 2012, the FCC restored the station's license.
See also
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List of college radio stations in the United States
Following are radio stations in the United States of America affiliated with colleges and universities that are regarded as college (student-run) stations. The listings include links to Wikipedia pages on the stations, their parent institution ...
References
External links
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Radio stations established in 1990