WNED-FM
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| City | WNED-FM: Buffalo, New York WNJA: Jamestown, New York |
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| Broadcast area | Western New York/Toronto |
| Branding | Classical 94.5 WNED |
| Slogan | Your Classical Music Station |
| Frequency | WNED-FM: 94.5 MHz WNJA: 89.7 MHz |
| First air date | WNED-FM: June 6, 1960 WNJA: January 18, 1991 |
| Format | Classical music |
| ERP | WNED-FM: 94,000 watts WNJA: 6,000 watts |
| HAAT | WNED-FM: 220.5 meters (723 feet) WNJA: 230 meters (755 feet) |
| Class | WNED-FM: B WNJA: B |
| Callsign meaning | WNED-FM: same as WNED-TV WNJA: WNED JAmestown |
| Former callsigns | WEBR-FM (1960-early 1970s) WBCE (early 1970s-?) WREZ (?-1977) |
| Owner | Western New York Public Broadcasting Association |
| Sister stations | WBFO, WNED-TV |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.wned.org/radio |
WNED-FM (94.5 MHz) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Buffalo, New York. WNED-FM offers a classical music radio format. It is owned by the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association (formerly the Western New York Educational TV Association), which also operates PBS network affiliate Channel 17 WNED-TV and FM 88.7 WBFO (which offers a news/talk format and programming from NPR). While WNED-FM airs no commercials, it does conduct periodic pledge drives on the air to seek donations for the station. WNED-FM has local hosts in mornings, middays and afternoons, with some nationally syndicated classical music shows in the evening and on weekends. Overnight, the station uses programming from "Classical 24."
Programming on WNED-FM is simulcast on WNJA 89.7 FM in Jamestown, New York for listeners in Southwestern New York and some parts of Pennsylvania. WNED's studios and offices are at Horizons Plaza on Lower Terrace in Buffalo, and the transmitter is off Zimmerman Road in Hamburg, New York. WNED-FM and TV also maintain an office in Toronto for listeners and contributors in Canada.
WNED-FM is a grandfathered "Superpower" Class B FM radio station, operating at 94,000 watts. Buffalo has three other superpower FM stations: 92.9 WBUF, 99.5 WDCX-FM and 102.5 WTSS. Under current U.S. Federal Communications Commission rules, Class B FM's are not allowed to exceed 50,000 watts ERP. WNED-FM at one time broadcast at 105,000 watts. But when it increased its antenna height some years ago, it also reduced its power. WNED-FM's signal extends into Canada. The station has listeners in Toronto, Hamilton and around the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario.
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