WCLH

Infobox Radio Station |

name = WCLH
frequency = 90.7 (MHz)
airdate = June 20, 1973
webcast = [http://146.94.38.155:8080 Listen Live]
area = Wilkes-Barre/Scranton/Hazleton, PA
format = Alternative rock
branding = "WCLH"
slogan = "Keep it locked!"
owner = Wilkes University
erp = 175 Watts
class = A
coordinates = coord|41.186389|N|75.859167|W|type:landmark
website = http://www.wclh.org
callsign_meaning = Wilkes College Listening Habit

WCLH (90.7 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA, the station serves the Scranton area. The station is currently owned by Wilkes College. The station has obtained a construction permit from the FCC for a power increase to 195 watts. [ cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WCLH |title=WCLH Facility Record |work=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division ] [cite web|url=http://www1.arbitron.com/sip/displaySip.do?surveyID=SU08&band=fm&callLetter=WCLH|title=WCLH Station Information Profile|publisher=Arbitron] The station plays alternative rock, heavy metal, and most recently adding rap/hip-hop to the programming schedule. It also airs the nationally syndicated shows Democracy Now, Making Contact, CounterSpin, and Radio Goethe. Like most college radio stations, it is run by a staff of studnets with the exception of a faculty general manager to oversee the day to day operations.

WCLH / WNEP-TV Tower Collapse

WNEP-TV's transmission tower broadcasting the analog signal on channel 16 and WCLH's FM signal collapsed on December 16, 2007 due to severe ice, winds, and snow at the transmitter location on Penobscot Knobcite news|title=Storm tips TV towers|author=Steve Mocarsky and Mark Sowers|date=December 17, 2007|accessyear = 2007|accessmonthday = December 17|publisher = The Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)|url=http://www.timesleader.com/news/20071217_17storm_sm_ART.html] cite web|title=Current News: WCLH FM off the air|date=December 17, 2007|accessyear = 2007|accessmonthday = December 17|publisher =WCLH (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)|url=http://www.wclh.org/] . The tower collapse also destroyed the transmitter building. No one was injured during the incidentcite news|title=Storm tips TV towers|author=Steve Mocarsky and Mark Sowers|date=December 17, 2007|accessyear = 2007|accessmonthday = December 17|publisher = The Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)|url=http://www.timesleader.com/news/20071217_17storm_sm_ART.html] . The collapse of the tower supporting the antennas for WCLH (FM) and WNEP(analog TV) also damaged the nearby WVIA tower putting WVIA-TV off the air and severed power to the transmitters for WYOU-TV and WBRE-TV putting those stations off the air for a timecite news|title=WYOU and WBRE TV Signal Update|author=PAHomePage.com|date=December 17, 2007|accessyear = 2007|accessmonthday = December 17|publisher = WYOU (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)|url=http://pahomepage.com/content/fulltext/?sid=ad33b5d15a314d89ba45b097f538d5ef&cid=22546] cite web|title=Northeast Radio Watch - December 24, 2007 - Pennsylvania|author = Scott Fybush|accessyear = 2008|accessmonthday = January 10|publisher = Northeast Radio Watch (Rochester, New York)|url=http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2007/071224/nerw.html#pa] . WCLH continued to broadcast after the tower collapse through the internet via their "Radio Stream" on their websitecite web|title=Current News: WCLH FM off the air|date=December 17, 2007|accessyear = 2007|accessmonthday = December 17|publisher =WCLH (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)|url=http://www.wclh.org/] . WCLH was able to broadcast over the air again after the tower collapse via a low powered signal from a temporary site by the end of December 2007cite web|title=Northeast Radio Watch - December 24, 2007 - Pennsylvania|author = Scott Fybush|accessyear = 2008|accessmonthday = January 10|publisher = Northeast Radio Watch (Rochester, New York)|url=http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2007/071224/nerw.html#pa] . By December 28, 2007, the WCLH antenna (which survived the tower collapse) and transmitter was moved to a new tower 1 km east, northeast of its former location where it again resumed over the air broadcasting at 90.7 MHz to a significant portion of its original coverage areacite web|title=FCC Engineering STA, File No. BSTA - 20071227ABX|date=December 28, 2007|url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101226410&formid=911&fac_num=72459] (see revised service contour map cited below).

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*FM station data|WCLH