WPTS-FM
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| City | Pittsburgh |
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| Broadcast area | Pittsburgh |
| Slogan | Pittsburgh's Progressive FM |
| Frequency | 92.1 (MHz) |
| First air date | August 26, 1984 |
| Format | Formatted College Radio |
| ERP | 17 watts |
| HAAT | 141 m |
| Class | D |
| Callsign meaning | PITTSBURGH |
| Owner | University of Pittsburgh |
| Website | www.wptsradio.org |
WPTS-FM is a non-commercial radio station owned by the University of Pittsburgh, and offers a mix of student-run programming, ranging from music programming to news and sports coverage. The station operates at 92.1 MHz with an ERP of 17 watts, and is licensed to Pittsburgh. Its transmitter is located on the top of the university's Cathedral of Learning in Pittsburgh.
WPTS-FM originally evolved from WPGH, an AM carrier current station that broadcast to the Pitt Student Union and dormitories. WPGH was started in the fall of 1957 by 12 students, including Adrian Cronauer, whose experiences in Vietnam were made famous by Robin Williams in the movie Good Morning, Vietnam. Since then, WPGH is now the call letters of the Fox TV station in Pittsburgh. The push to get an FM station began in the fall of 1977 when Pitt requested a space on the commercial FM broadcast band. Because the Federal Communications Commission was concerned that the move of WPTS to FM might set an unfavorable precedent for other non-commercial stations seeking to make a similar move, Pitt had to reassure the FCC that WPTS was a unique case. As a result, WPTS was granted a class D license with a radiating power of 10W in the fall of 1984, the last 10W station to be licensed by the FCC. The station was originally at 98.5 until 1994, when it moved to the current frequency.
After a brief reduction in power in parts of 2005 and 2006 at the request of the FCC, WPTS acquired a new directional antenna in the summer of 2006 to reduce interference with a commercial station in the north-west. The new antenna increased the range of the station in almost all directions.
In 2009, 2012, 2013, and 2015 WPTS was nominated as one of the five to ten finalists for the mtvU Woodie Award for best college radio station in the United States.
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