WBFO
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| City | Buffalo, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Buffalo, New York |
| Frequency | 88.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) Simulcast on WNED-FM HD2 94.5 Mhz |
| Repeater(s) |
WUBJ Jamestown, New York 88.1 MHz WOLN Olean, New York 91.3 MHz |
| First air date | January 6, 1959 |
| Format | Public Radio |
| ERP | 50,000 watts |
| HAAT | 117 meters |
| Class | B |
| Callsign meaning | WBFO: BuFfalO WOLN: OLeaN WUBJ: University at Buffalo (Jamestown or Jazz) |
| Affiliations | NPR |
| Owner | Western New York Public Broadcasting Association |
| Sister stations | WNED-TV, WNED-FM |
| Webcast |
WBFO-FM PLS M3U |
| Website | WBFO.org |
WBFO is the NPR member station for Buffalo, New York, carrying an almost entirely public news/talk format. It broadcasts from studios in the Lower Terrace section of downtown Buffalo which it shares with WNED-TV and WNED-FM. Previously, it broadcast from the South campus (a.k.a. Main Street Campus) of the University at Buffalo. It currently leases an as-yet unutilized satellite studio in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. WBFO runs two permanent satellite stations: WUBJ (FM 88.1) in Jamestown, New York, and WOLN (FM 91.3) in Olean, New York.
Western New York Public Broadcasting Association, which at the time owned an AM station which had the call letters WNED-AM and had been carrying some of the same programming as WBFO, purchased WBFO in July 2011, and incorporated some of the channel's news features and staff into a combined lineup on March 1, 2012, through November 30, 2012 (when the sale of WNED-AM to Crawford Broadcasting was finalized and the call letters changed to WDCZ) which it broadcast on both stations. Most of the programming lost in the merger formerly aired on WNED-AM (although much of that was restored after Talk of the Nation, previously a WBFO exclusive, ended its run). Among the programs eliminated from the old WBFO were the last jazz programs originating from a Buffalo area radio station at that time. In June 2013, jazz programming returned to the Buffalo area with the weekly "Off We Go", a local one-hour program broadcast by local trumpeter Lew Custode at 3 pm Wednesdays on Niagara Falls station, WJJL.
Prior to March 2012, WBFO presented a full-service mix of news and music programming that incorporated blues and jazz. WBFO's local news department had been highly recognized by the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association. WBFO was all-news during the day and featured jazz overnight. On weekends there had been a mix of syndicated talk programs (such as Car Talk, Only A Game and Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!) mornings, and music programs (The Thistle & Shamrock, Bebop and Beyond, and Piano Jazz) in the evenings. Locally originated blues programming was broadcast on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
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