WFAE
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| City | Charlotte, North Carolina |
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| Broadcast area | Metrolina |
| Branding | 90.7 WFAE |
| Slogan | Charlotte's NPR News Source |
| Frequency | 90.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Translator(s) | See § Translators |
| Repeater(s) | See § Stations |
| First air date | June 29, 1981 (at 90.9) (carrier current mid-1970s-1981) |
| Format | FM/HD1: News/Talk HD2: The Charlotte Jazz Channel HD3: Public Radio Remix |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 331 meters (1,086 ft) |
| Class | C0 |
| Facility ID | 69436 |
| Callsign meaning | W Fine Arts Education |
| Former frequencies | 90.9 MHz (1981-1987) |
| Affiliations | NPR |
| Owner | University Radio Foundation, Inc. |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wfae.org |
WFAE (90.7 FM) is a non-commercial public radio station licensed to University Radio Foundation, Inc. in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is the flagship NPR news/talk station in Metrolina. The station's main studio is located at One University Place in the University City neighborhood of northeast Charlotte, and a satellite downtown Charlotte studio is located in Spirit Square on North College Street. WFAE's broadcast tower is located at (35°17′15.0″N 80°41′44.0″W / 35.287500°N 80.695556°W).
WFAE broadcasts on HD Radio.
The station signed on for the first time on June 29, 1981 on 90.9 FM as a service of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, succeeding a student-run carrier current station operated from the basement of the Cone University Center that began operation in the mid-1970s. In addition to NPR programs, the new station aired jazz during the day and classical music at night. Later, jazz was moved to night. Before WFAE's sign-on, the only NPR outlet in the area had been WNSC-FM, a South Carolina Educational Radio outlet in Rock Hill.
The station grew rapidly, and within five years moved to much larger studios in the One University Place building near the UNC Charlotte campus, where it still is today.
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