WYSO
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| City | Yellow Springs, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area | Dayton, Ohio |
| Slogan | Our Community. Our Nation. Our World |
| Frequency | 91.3 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | 1958 |
| Format | NPR/Public Radio |
| Audience share | 1.9 (FALL 2007, RRC) |
| ERP | 36,000 watts |
| HAAT | 174 meters (571 ft) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 2374 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°40′19.00″N 84°04′34.40″W / 39.6719444°N 84.0762222°W |
| Callsign meaning | Yellow Springs, Ohio |
| Former callsigns | none |
| Affiliations |
National Public Radio, Public Radio International, BBC World Service |
| Owner |
Antioch College (Antioch College Corporation) |
| Webcast | Listen |
| Website | 91.3 WYSO |
WYSO (91.3 FM) is a radio station in Yellow Springs, Ohio, near Dayton, operated by Antioch College. It is the flagship National Public Radio member station for the Miami Valley, including the cities of Dayton and Springfield.
WYSO signed on in 1958 and has the distinction of being located in one of the smallest villages to host an NPR affiliate station. WYSO broadcasts in the HD Radio format.
WYSO was originally on 91.5 MHz. It moved to 91.3 MHz in 1980.
WYSO started as a student and faculty station with a 10-watt transmitter located at the student union building of Antioch College, an institution with a unique progressive philosophy. By the early 1970s, an intermediate power increase to 3000 watts and the introduction of permanent paid staff began a move towards reflecting and serving a larger community. At that time, WYSO was known as a university-based community radio station. Significantly, several Antioch College students and other volunteers took it upon themselves to be involved with an incipient community and public radio movement in the United States. Several of those individuals have occupied key positions since that time—out of proportion to the station's modest size.
Before NPR affiliation, nearly all of the station's programming was locally originated. The station had carried live Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, ad hoc networks set up by anti-Vietnam War activists, and a few recorded syndicated programs. "WYSO People's News" a local news program, was aired in the 1970s and 1980s. The rest of WYSO's program schedule was eclectic and block programming.
As at other community radio stations in the United States, NPR affiliation was viewed with suspicion by some insiders, but the attendant money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting led to a permanent staff and a local fundraising mandate.
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