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Broadcast area | New York metropolitan area |
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Frequency | 91.1 MHz |
Programming | |
Format | Free-form radio |
Ownership | |
Owner | Auricle Communications |
History | |
First air date | April 1958 |
Call sign meaning | FM Upsala College (former owner) |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 3249 |
Class | A |
ERP | 1,250 watts |
HAAT | 151 meters (495 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°47′19.00″N 74°15′20.00″W / 40.7886111°N 74.2555556°W |
Translator(s) | 91.9 W220EJ (Weehawken) |
Repeater(s) | 90.1 WMFU (Mount Hope, New York) |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen live |
Website | wfmu |
WFMU (91.1 MHz) is a non-commercial, listener-supported, independent community radio station licensed to East Orange, New Jersey, with studios in Jersey City. It is owned by Auricle Communications, broadcasting a free-form radio format. The station holds periodic on-air fundraisers and seeks donation on its website.
WFMU is a Class A station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 1,250 watts. The transmitter is on Prospect Avenue and Mount Pleasant Avenue in West Orange.[2] Programming is also heard on 10-watt FM translator W220EJ at 91.9 FM in Weehawken.[3] The Lower Catskills, parts of Northern New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania can hear simulcast sister station WMFU at 90.1 MHz, licensed to Mount Hope, New York, with its tower in Otisville.[4] That station also has a 10-watt translator at 91.9 MHz in New City, New York, serving Rockland County.[5]