WYCE

Infobox Radio station
name = WYCE


city = Wyoming, Michigan
area = [http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WYCE&service=FM&status=L&hours=U]
branding = Independent Community Radio for West Michigan
slogan =
airdate = 1983
frequency = 88.1 MHz
format = Public: Variety
power = 7,000 watts
erp =
class = B1
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns =
owner = Grand Rapids Community Media Center
webcast =
website = [http://www.wyce.org/ http://www.wyce.org/]
affiliations =

WYCE (88.1 FM) is an American public radio station broadcasting a variety format. The format has a decidedly adult album alternative lean, but has elements of folk, rock, blues, worldbeat and jazz in the playlist.

Licensed to Wyoming, Michigan, it first began broadcasting in 1983 as an FM-based extension to a cable-based radio station that had been operating since 1978 on a channel on (then) GE Cablevision in the Wyoming and Kentwood areas. This station was licensed to Wyoming Community Education (thus the call sign).

By the mid 1980's, control of the station was passed from Wyoming Community Education to the Grand Rapids Community Media Center.

In the mid 1990's, the studios were moved from a location near the community education building in Wyoming to a renovated building (upstairs from a library) in the northwest part of nearby Grand Rapids.

WYCE is completely listener supported and run by nearly 100 volunteers.

Sources

* [http://www.michiguide.com/dials/rad-y/wyce.html Michiguide.com - WYCE History]

External links

*FMQ|WYCE