WNYE (FM)

WNYE-FM

City	New York City
Broadcast area	New York metropolitan area
Branding	Radio New York
Frequency	91.5 MHz FM (also on HD Radio)
First air date	November 1938 (Apex band) 1942 (FM band)
Format	Variety, Educational
ERP	2,000 watts^[1]
HAAT	281 meters (922 ft)^[1]
Class	B1^[1]
Facility ID	3539^[1]
Callsign meaning	W New York City Board of Education
Affiliations	NPR Public Radio International
Owner	NYC Media Group (New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications)
Sister stations	WNYE-TV
Website	Radio New York

WNYE (91.5 MHz) is a non-commercial educational FM radio station located in New York City. WNYE is operated by the NYC Media Group, a division of the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, along with WNYE-TV (channel 25) and the NYCTV cable networks. WNYE's studios are in the NYC Media Group's headquarters within the Manhattan Municipal Building, while its transmitter is atop the Condé Nast Building. Because its funding comes from the City of New York, WNYE is different than most non-commercial radio stations in that it does not ask for listener donations and it airs no fund drives.

History

WNYE began broadcasting as a high-frequency Apex band station in November of 1938, giving it an earlier starting date than any other FM station in New York City.^[2] WNYE switched to 42.1 MHz in the old FM band in 1942. In 1946, it moved to 91.7 MHz, in today's current FM band. Then in 1948, it settled at 91.5 MHz.

The station's original licensee was the New York City Board of Education, and as such WNYE-FM was a laboratory devoted to programming designed for the city's public school system. As time went on, WNYE-FM also broadcast adult learning, community-interest and ethnic programming as well. The station's studios and transmitter were originally located within Brooklyn Technical High School. In the middle-1990s the studios were moved to nearby George Westinghouse High School in Downtown Brooklyn.

In December 2004, the Department of Education transferred the licenses of the WNYE stations to the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications. The transfer integrated WNYE-FM-TV's operations with those of the city-owned cable television services CUNY-TV and Crosswalks Television Network, combining them to form the NYC Media Group. WNYE-FM's programming format remained largely unchanged at that time, but in March 2007 the station was rebranded as "Radio New York, WNYE 91.5 FM," and in 2009 it launched its digital programming with a new transmitter located at the Condé Nast Building (4 Times Square).^[3]

Programming

On February 11, 2008, the station management announced a partnership with Seattle-based station KEXP-FM to produce a new format branded as Radio Liberation,^[4] featuring indie rock music simulcast from KEXP.^[5] The format started on March 24, 2008, replacing a number of NPR, BBC and Public Radio International shows.^[6]

On June 1, 2011 KEXP was replaced with The Alternate Side from Fordham University's WFUV.^[7] It featured indie rock and alternative rock programming. This ended on August 21, 2015.^[8]

As of August 31, 2015 WNYE airs adult album alternative music by simulcasting WFUV weekdays from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.^[9] On weekday late mornings and afternoons, the station airs news programming from NPR and other public radio organizations. That includes the NPR news show "All Things Considered," "Here and Now" from WBUR-FM in Boston and "The Diane Rehm Show," a news and interview program from WAMU in Washington, D.C. Late nights, music programs are heard including the "World Cafe" from WXPN Philadelphia, "Afropop Worldwide" from Public Radio International and "Echoes" which specializes in ambient and electronic music. Evenings and weekends are devoted to ethnic programming for the Greek, Irish, Croatian, Haitian, Slavic and Brazilian communities, as well as New York Islanders hockey games, simulcast with WRHU.

References

1 2 3 4 According to the Engineering details for WNYE-FM in their license application at the Federal Communications Commission, April 2009.
↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 pg. C-144
↑ "Mayor Bloomberg, DoITT commissioner Cosgrave, and NYC Media Group president Arick Wierson launch new transmitter site for WNYE 91.5 FM Radio New York at 4 Times Square", press release PR-109-09, City of New York. March 5, 2009.
↑ "KEXP and Radio New York liberate listeners from the norm" (Press release). Pyramid Communications. 2008-02-11. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
↑ "Air raid", Time Out New York, Issue 651, Mar 19–25, 2008.
↑ "Indie scene can be heard now on WNYE", Daily News, March 23, 2008.
↑ "The Alternate Side Debuts On WNYE June 1", thealternateside.org, June 1, 2011.
↑ "WFUV Dissolves The Alternate Side", radioinsight.com, August 20, 2015.
↑ "radio-schedule". www1.nyc.gov. Retrieved 2015-09-02.

External links

91.5 FM Radio New York, official home page.
Query the FCC's FM station database for WNYE
Radio-Locator information on WNYE
Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WNYE

Radio stations in the New York City market

By AM frequency	570 660¹ 710¹ 770¹ 820 880¹ 1010 1050 1130¹ 1190 1280 1330 1380 1480 1560⁴ 1600 1620 New Jersey 620 930 970 1430 1500 1530 1660 Westchester County, N.Y. 1460

Apex/VHF FM	42.8

By FM frequency	87.7 88.9 89.1² 89.9 90.3 (New York) 90.3 (Brooklyn) 90.7 91.5 92.3 93.9 95.5 96.3 97.1 97.9 98.7 99.5 101.1 101.9 102.7 103.5 104.3 105.1 106.7 107.5 New Jersey 88.3 89.1² 89.5 90.3 91.1 93.1³ 94.7 99.1 100.3³ 105.5 105.9³ 106.3 Westchester County, N.Y. 88.1 88.9 90.3 93.5 96.7 103.9 106.3 107.1 Long Island, N.Y. 92.7 103.5³

Via FM subcarrier	67 kHz Chinese Radio New York Gatewave radio reading service Radio Maria Stati Uniti (Italian) 92 kHz Chung Wah Chinese Broadcasting Company ICN Radio Radio Maria Estados Unidos (Spanish) RBC Radio

Digital radio	710 880 1010 1280 1560 88.3-1 88.3-2 89.5-1 89.5-2 89.9-1 89.9-1 89.9-2 89.9-3 90.7-1 90.7-2 90.7-3 92.3-1 92.3-2 93.1-1 93.1-2 93.5-1 93.5-2 93.5-3 93.5-4 93.9-1 93.9-2 93.9-3 94.7-1 94.7-4 95.5-1 95.5-2 95.5-3 97.1-1 97.1-2 97.9-1 98.7-1 100.3-1 100.3-2 101.1-1 101.1-2 101.1-3 102.7-1 102.7-2 102.7-3 103.5-1 103.5-2 103.5-3 103.9-1 104.3-1 104.3-2 105.1-1 105.1-2 105.9-1 105.9-2 106.7-1 106.7-2 107.5-1 107.5-2

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550

By callsign	KWO35 WA2XMN WABC¹ WADO WARY WAWZ WAXQ WBAI WBBR¹ WBGO WBLS WBMP WCBS¹ WCBS-FM WEPN WEPN-FM WFAN¹ WFAN-FM WFDU² WFME¹ WFME-FM WFMU WFUV WGHT WHCR-FM WHTZ WICR WINS WJDM WKCR-FM WKDM WKLV-FM WKMK WKRB WKTU WLIB WLTW WMCA WMSC WNBM WNEW-FM WNSH WNSW WNYC WNYC-FM WNYE WNYM WNYU-FM² WNYZ-LP WOR¹ WPAT WPAT-FM WPLJ WQBU-FM WQHT (HD2) WQXR-FM WQXW WSIA WSKQ-FM WSNR WSOU WVIP WVOX WWES WWPR-FM (HD2) WWRL WWRU WWRV WWZY WXNY-FM WXPK WZRC

Defunct	WHN⁴ WNBC WNBC-FM⁴ WNEW WYNY⁴

See also Poughkeepsie Philadelphia Hudson Valley New Haven Bridgeport Danbury Stamford-Norwalk Middlesex-Somerset-Union Sussex Morristown Monmouth-Ocean Long Island Trenton ¹ = Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage. ² = Stations share time on the frequency. ³ = Station is licensed to a community in their respective sub market (e.g. New Jersey), but transmits from atop the Empire State Building or Freedom Tower. ⁴ = Technically still active, but on a different frequency with new call letters and different intellectual property.

NPR member stations in the state of New York

WAMC stations	Albany WAMC (AM)/WAMC-FM Canajoharie WCAN Kingston WAMK Middletown WOSR Mount Kisco WWES Plattsburgh WCEL Stamford WANZ Ticonderoga WANC Utica WRUN-FM

WSKG stations	Binghamton WSKG Binghamton WSQX Corning WSQE Hornell WSQA Ithaca WSQG Oneonta WSQC

NCPR stations	Blue Mountain Lake WXLH Boonville WXLB Canton WSLU Cape Vincent WSLZ Gouverneur WSLG Malone WSLO North Creek WXLG Peru WXLU Saranac Lake WSLL Tupper Lake WXLS Watertown WSLJ

WXXI stations	Houghton WXXY-FM Rochester WXXI-FM Rochester WXXI (AM) Rochester WRUR

WNED stations	Buffalo WNED-FM Buffalo WBFO Jamestown WNJA

WBFO stations	Buffalo WBFO Jamestown WUBJ Olean WOLN

WCNY stations	Syracuse WCNY Utica WUNY Watertown WJNY

WRVO stations	Oswego WRVO Syracuse WRVD Clayton WRVH Watertown WRVJ Utica WRVN

Other stations	Brooklyn WNYE Fredonia WCVF Geneva WEOS Hamilton WRCU Jeffersonville WJFF New York City WFUV New York City WNYC New York City WNYC-FM Noyack WSUF Poughkeepsie WRHV Schenectady WMHT Schuyler Falls WOXR Southampton WPPB Southampton WRLI Syracuse WAER

See also List of NPR stations

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in New York

Coordinates: 40°45′22″N 73°59′10″W / 40.7562°N 73.9862°W / 40.7562; -73.9862

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