WUSB-FM
| City | Stony Brook, New York |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Long Island |
| Slogan | Radio Free Long Island |
| Frequency | 90.1 MHz |
| Translator(s) | W297BM (107.3, Stony Brook) |
| First air date | June 27, 1977 |
| Format | Freeform |
| ERP | 3,600 watts |
| HAAT | 162 meters (531 ft) |
| Class | B1 |
| Facility ID | 63110 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°50′32.00″N 73°02′23.00″W / 40.8422222°N 73.0397222°W |
| Callsign meaning | University of Stony Brook |
| Owner | State University of New York Board of Trustees |
| Webcast |
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| Website | www |
WUSB (90.1 FM) is the State University of New York at Stony Brook's radio station. A non-commercial station located in Stony Brook, New York broadcasting on 90.1 MHz on the FM dial, the station is staffed by more than 150 volunteers who devote their time and energy for the love of music and free-form radio. WUSB is a Freeform radio station.
The station is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Its antenna is located on Bald Hill in Farmingville, New York, broadcasting at 3600 watts at 184 meters (604 ft) above sea level, covering most of Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk counties), parts of Southern Connecticut, Westchester County and even some of the easternmost parts of Queens in New York City.
The station has been broadcasting on the FM band since June 27, 1977, and from its current location in Bald Hill since 1995. From 1977 to 1995, the station's transmitter and antenna were located on campus, atop the Graduate Chemistry building. Prior to 1977, the station broadcast only to the Stony Brook University campus via carrier current on 820 kHz on the AM band. Studios have remained in Stony Brook University's Student Union building. WUSB is partially listener-supported.
The station began in 1962 as a carrier current station, broadcasting only within the confines of the then-new Stony Brook campus on 820 kHz on the AM band. The station was, at the time, an integral part of Stony Brook University's once lively concert scene, which brought such bands and acts as Simon and Garfunkel, Thelonious Monk, The Grateful Dead (in their first-ever East Coast concert appearance), Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Arlo Guthrie, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, the Allman Brothers Band, Pink Floyd, Van Morrison, The Who, Jethro Tull, Cat Stevens, Hot Tuna, Santana, Stony Brook's own Blue Öyster Cult, the Beach Boys, Frank Zappa, Billy Joel, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Jerry Garcia and more. Many of these musicians paid a visit to the station as well. In its earliest days, the studios were located in a "hole in the ground" in the Pritchard Gymnasium, before relocating to another cramped space in the basement of one of the dormitories, James College. One of the station's broadcasters, Paul (the Bean) Kornreich, was not only one of the station's DJ's but also its first basketball announcer. In 1975, the studios then moved to the Student Union, Room 240, where they remained until they moved to the second floor of the West Side Dining facility on January 27, 2017.
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