WUML
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| City | Lowell, Massachusetts |
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| Broadcast area | Merrimack Valley |
| Branding | 91.5 WUML |
| Slogan | Where Underground Music Lives |
| Frequency | 91.5 MHz |
| First air date | November 26, 1967 |
| Format | College Radio |
| ERP | 1,400 watts |
| HAAT | 63 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 69410 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°39′7.73″N 71°19′13.44″W / 42.6521472°N 71.3204000°W |
| Callsign meaning | University of Masssachusetts Lowell |
| Former callsigns | WLTI (1967-1975) WJUL (1975-2003) |
| Owner | University of Massachusetts Lowell |
| Website | wuml.org |
WUML (91.5 FM) is a non-commercial college radio station licensed to Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. The station is owned by the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
WUML aims to showcase underground artists of all genres and to provide a voice for the Lowell community. The broadcast week includes programming produced by UMass Lowell students and by community hosts who represent the ethnically and linguistically diverse community of Lowell.
Student programming is broadcast during the week and includes genres such as rock, folk, jazz, Latin, RPM, and metal. The station also broadcasts a morning show from 7–9:00 am called the Morning Driveby, as well as Thinking Out Loud, a daytime show focusing on current local and world issues, and Riverhawks Underground, which focuses on athletics at UMass Lowell and the Massachusetts area.
Community programming is broadcast on the weekends. Among the languages that can be heard are Khmer (the language of Cambodia), Spanish, Portuguese, Laotian, Armenian and French.
The members of WUML are producing new shows every semester, but some of the longer-running shows include the Stress Factor, Live from the Fallout Shelter, and Blues Deluxe (on-air for about 26 years).
A complete schedule, as well as contact information for the station and all of its directors, can be viewed online at wuml.org.
WUML programming is also available online via streaming audio through links provided on its webpage (wuml.org). The streaming audio is conveniently available at various bit rates (for slow and high speed connections) in MP3 and Ogg formats.
WUML was started in 1952 by Ed Bonacci, a student attending what was then called the Lowell Textile Institute. After accidentally building a transmitter in his dorm room, a studio was built in Kitson Hall, with a 5-10 watt transmitter located in the basement of the old library. At exactly 7:00 pm on January 15, 1953, WLTI began broadcasting on carrier current over the electrical power wires specifically to Eames and Smith Hall, as well as the Alumni Library on the University's North Campus.
During the summer of 1953, permanent station consoles were built and readied for the move of the studio from Kitson Hall to the basement of Eames Hall which at that time was being used as a trunk room.
On November 26, 1967, WLTI became a licensed and regulated FCC educational FM station broadcasting over air on its current frequency at 91.5 FM, using a transmitter (10 watts) and an antenna, which was capable of reaching Cumnock, Southwick, Leitch, and Bourgeois Hall.
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