WFTE (90.3 FM) was a radio station licensed to serve Mount Cobb, Pennsylvania, and (105.7 FM) Scranton, Pennsylvania The station's licensee was Community Radio Collective, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization.
WFTE Community Radio aired live on the air in 2011.[2] With translator W289AU on 105.7 FM, WFTE Community Radio broadcast to around 500,000 residents in the greater Scranton, Pennsylvania area.[3] For a time, WFTE provided the studio equipment for Bob Fass's long-running radio show Radio Unnameable, which was in turn syndicated back to Fass's former flagship WBAI and a limited number of other affiliates.[4]
WFTE's license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on June 27, 2018, due to the station having been silent since September 27, 2016.
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WFTE". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Durkin, Jessica (August 21, 2010). "Room on the Dial: Group Wants Community Radio in Scranton". New America Foundation's Sustaining Democracy in a Digital Age Blog.
- ^ Borthwick, Tom (August 23, 2010). "WFTE – Community Radio". NEPArtisan.
- ^ Kalish, Jon (November 21, 2016). "Columbia University acquires archival recordings of Bob Fass's 'Radio Unnameable'". Current. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
External links
- Facility details for Facility ID 172918 (WFTE) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- WFTE in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
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