- WETS-FM
Infobox Radio station
name = WETS-FM
city =Johnson City, Tennessee
area =Tri-Cities, Tennessee
branding = "Public Radio for East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and Western North Carolina"
slogan =
airdate =February 24 ,1974
frequency = 89.5MHz
format = Americana, Classical,News
power =
erp =
class =
callsign_meaning = East Tennessee State
former_callsigns =
owner =East Tennessee State University
webcast =
website = [http://www.wets.org/ WETS.org]
affiliations =National Public Radio
sister_stations =WETS-FM (89.5 FM) is a
public radio station operated as a partnership betweenEast Tennessee State University and the station’s listeners. [cite news |url=http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/Detail.php?Cat=LOCALNEWS&ID=59144 |title=Listeners coming through for WETS fundraising drive |work=Johnson City Press |first=Sue |last=Guinn Legg |date=2007-04-11 |accessdate=2007-07-24] Operating 24-hours a day, the station also has aRealPlayer webcast available on its web site.In addition to locally produced and NPR news programming, the station carries
classical music in the mornings and evenings, and Americana in the afternoons, featuring local music from southernAppalachia .The station has transmitted from a tower on
Holston Mountain since 1981, from studios located in Richard F. Ellis Hall (opened in 1988, dedicated to the station's first director in 1993) on the south side of ETSU's campus. [cite web |url=http://www.wets.org/index.cgi?CONTEXT=cat&cat=16 |title=About WETS-FM 89.5 |work=WETS.org |accessdate=2007-07-24]As an annual fund raiser, the station presents the annual "Little Chicago Blues Festival" at the Down Home each spring. [cite news |url=http://www.easttennessean.com/news/2006/05/01/Lifestyle/Annual.Little.Chicago.Blues.Festival.Comes.To.Down.Home.Hosts.16.Bands-1896878.shtml |title=Annual Little Chicago Blues Festival comes to Down Home, hosts 16 bands |work=East Tennessean |first=Jon |last=DeBerry |date=
2006-05-01 |accessdate=2007-07-24] [cite news |url=http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/Detail.php?Cat=ENTERTAINMENT&ID=59256 |title=BLUE FRIDAY (SATURDAY, TOO) - Little Chicago festival continues as a variety of acts perform in support of WETS |work=Johnson City Press |first=Doug |last=Janz |date=2007-04-27 |accessdate=2007-07-24]References
External links
*FMQ|WETS
*FML|WETS
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