WCBN-FM 88.3 Ann Arbor

Slogan/Positioner: Over 35 Years Of Freeing Your Mind

Format: Variety; College student station

Web site: http://www.wcbn.org

E-mail: visit web site

Power/Height/Class: 200 watts / 177 feet / A

Construction permit: 3,000 watts / 167 feet / A, directional

FCC technical information:

• engineering data
• station details
• coverage area
• CP coverage area

More about station:

• Radio Locator coverage area
• Radio Locator CP coverage area
• FCCInfo.com listing
• Recnet Broadcast Query
• WCBN-FM from Wikipedia
• WCBN-FM from RadioTime.com
• WCBN on Facebook

Call Sign History:

• WCBN-FM: assigned 9/13/1971

Call Sign Origin: Campus Broadcasting Network

On Air Date: January 23, 1972

Owner: University of Michigan

Telephone: (734) 647-4122

Notes/History:

• 12/2009: Construction permit granted to increase power from 200 watts @ 177 feet to 3,000 watts @ 167 and change to a directional pattern. The most signal improvement will be in areas around Dexter, Saline, and Ypsilanti.
• 1977: Moved to 88.3, power later to 200 watts.
• 1974: Began broacasting through summer months.
• 1/23/1972: WCBN is licensed by FCC at 89.5 FM, 10 watts. Carrier current operations continue, but as WRCN.
• 1965: Operations of WCBN are brought together in one location, the new Student Activities Building, for the first time.
• 1952: Carrier current station on 650 AM is created by combining what had been three different carrier current operations.

Transmitter location:

Washtenaw County: U-M Campus; near N. University and Church Sts (Ann Arbor)

Discussion