WDBM
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| Broadcast area | East Lansing, MI |
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| Branding | "Impact 89 FM" |
| First air date | 1989 |
| Frequency | 88.9 (MHz) |
| Format | College radio |
| ERP | 2,000 watts |
| Owner | Michigan State University |
| Website | www.impact89fm.org |
WDBM (88.9), East Lansing, Michigan, is a 2000 watt, Class A, student-run radio station at Michigan State University that broadcasts to listeners in the Lansing-East Lansing, Michigan metropolitan area. The station is the successor to the Michigan State Network, which in the 1970s was the nation's largest college carrier current radio network, and had studios in several MSU dormitories. The network was eventually consolidated to one carrier current station, WLFT ('Turn to the Left'), which broadcast from the former WKAR studios in the MSU Auditorium Building.
WDBM began broadcasting in 1989 with the moniker Impact 89FM, a name it still uses today. It is one of the few student-run college radio stations to broadcast 24 hours-a-day, 365 days-a-year. WDBM has been named "College Station of the Year" by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters more than any other station. In 2004, it was the nation's first college station to broadcast in HD Radio and streams its programming on its website.
Its staff began recording and podcasting Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm's weekly radio address in 2005.
The station is licensed to the MSU Board of Trustees, financed by a student fee, and operates separately from the University's other media outlets, which include WKAR, WKAR-FM, WKAR-TV, and the State News.
[edit] Programming
Weekdays, WDBM broadcasts mainly alternative music. At night, block programming features jazz, blues, metal music, electronic music, and hip hop. On midday Sunday, world music is featured. The Lansing City Pulse tabloid credited WDBM's Progressive Torch and Twang program for igniting and sustaining the alternative country scene in mid-Michigan.
[edit] External links
- Impact 89FM official website
- MSU campus radio alumni website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WDBM
By frequency: (FM) | 88.1 | 88.5 | 88.9 | 89.7 | 90.5 | 91.7 | 92.1 | 92.9 | 93.7 | 94.1 | 94.9 | 96.5 | 97.5 | 99.1 | 100.7 | 101.7 | 105.7 | 106.1 | (AM) | 730 | 760 | 870 | 1110 | 1180 | 1240 | 1320 | 1390 | 1580
By callsign: | WBCT | WDBM | WFMK | WHZZ | WILS | WITL | WJIM | WJIM | WJOM | WJR | WJXQ | WJZL | WJZL | WKAR | WKAR | WLCM | WLCM | WLGH | WLNZ | WMMQ | WOOD | WQHH | WQTX | WUNN | WUOM | WVFN | WVIC | WWSJ | WXLA
Detroit (FM) (AM) | Grand Rapid | Lansing | Flint | Saginaw-Bay City-Midland | Ann Arbor | Kalamazoo | Traverse City-Petoskey | Muskegon | Battle Creek
