broadcast area research triangle and eastern north carolina slogan bringing the world home to you frequency 91.5 mhz also on hd radio first air date april 3 1976 1 format news talk information hd2 aaa power 100 000 watts callsign meaning wunc university of north carolina owner university of north carolina at chapel hill wunc public radio llc webcast 152.2.63.68 8000 wunc128.m3u 152.2.63.68 8000 wunc64.m3u website wunc.org wunc is the flagship national public radio member station for the research triangle area of north carolina broadcasting on the fm band at 91.5 mhz . based in chapel hill and operated by the university of north carolina at chapel hill it airs npr american public media public radio international and bbc programming in an all news and information format . on the weekends the network broadcasts locally produced folk music programming ; the longest running continuously produced program offered by the station is back porch music a weekly folk and traditional music program . wunc should not be confused with wxyc which is unc s student radio station . the station operates four full service fm repeater stations wfss fm from fayetteville on 91.9 ; wrqm from rocky mount on 90.9 ; wund fm from manteo on 88.9 ; and wunw fm from welcome on 91.1 . contents 1 hd programming 2 transmitters and programming 3 history 4 references 5 external links hd programming edit wunc broadcasts in the hd radio format . 2 transmitters and programming edit the network consists of four stations . all stations were referred to simply as wunc until 2005 . in that year the station rebranded as north carolina public radio wunc . the call letters of the other stations are identified only during required station ids at the start of each hour . however in recent years it has largely reverted to using wunc as its main on air name with north carolina public radio as a secondary brand . wunc s 100 000 watt signal not only covers raleigh durham and the triangle but also covers much of the eastern portion of the piedmont triad including greensboro and high point . this is because its transmitter is located on the unc tv tower on terrells mountain in chatham county roughly halfway between raleigh and greensboro . wrqm serves the far eastern portion of the triangle market as well as greenville . wund serves northeastern north carolina and the outer banks . wunw covers portions of davidson county that are blocked from wunc s main signal . wfss serves the fayetteville area . combined the five stations reach just over half of north carolina s population providing at least secondary coverage from the fringes of the charlotte suburbs to the outer banks . aside from back porch music wunc also produces the people s pharmacy with joe and terry graedon a nationally syndicated program first broadcast on wunc in the early 1980s ; and the state of things a regionally syndicated local affairs show . the network began offering podcasts for the state of things and other locally produced news stories in september 2005 . wunc s main studios are located in chapel hill near the friday center ; in 2005 a second broadcast facility was opened in durham s american tobacco historic district . on october 17 2005 the state of things began production at the new durham location and broadcasts live about once a month remotely from triad stage in greensboro . other programs continue production in the chapel hill studios . dick gordon former host of wbur s the connection began hosting a new interview show called the story with dick gordon on february 16 2006 that was co produced with and nationally syndicated by american public media . the show s final program aired on wunc on october 11 2013 . 3 talk of the nation had been dropped by wunc fm earlier in the year . today in addition to the aforementioned current programs plus npr staples such as morning edition all things considered fresh air with terry gross and wait wait ... don t tell me wunc fm also is home to the diane rehm show radio times with marty moss cone car talk reruns whad ya know on the media this american life the splendid table the thistle & shamrock mountain stage and of course a prairie home companion . many of these shows are distributed nationally by american public media public radio international or wnyc . history edit wunc was originally on the air for a brief time as an am station in the 1940s citation needed then returned to the air in 1952 as a student run fm station with equipment from jefferson standard broadcasting which had operated wbt fm for several years . the original station stayed on the air until a lightning strike in 1970 . 4 wunc signed on in its current incarnation on april 3 1976 . it immediately became the state s second npr member . one of its earliest shows was gary shivers on jazz a jazz program produced by the station and syndicated regionally . shivers was the station s first program director and second general manager . wunc had studios in swain hall on the unc campus ; it moved to a state of the art studio near the friday center in 1999 . prior to its switch to a news and information format the station was a multi format station of npr news classical music and jazz music . citation needed wrqm began as a separate npr station in the early 1990s with the call letters wesq licensed to north carolina wesleyan college in rocky mount . at one time this was an african american public radio station called wvsp and licensed to warrenton . wesq offered a variety of music that included country and r & b. the city of rocky mount bought the station and operated it with the on air name down east public radio . 4 it was renamed wrqm in 1996 . the station floundered for most of its existence as there were just barely enough listeners in that area of the market for the station to be viable on its own . this caused a chronic shortage of financial support even after the city of rocky mount bought the station . in march 1999 it began airing portions of wunc s schedule . it became a full repeater of wunc that october . wund fm in manteo signed on march 24 1999 bringing npr programming to one of the few areas of north carolina without a clear signal from a full fledged npr station . wunw fm in welcome signed on as a full service fm station on 91.1 fm 5 in december 2013 providing increased coverage of wunc to suburban communities in davidson county located south of greensboro and winston salem . on may 13 2015 officials announced the acquisition of wfss a public radio station licensed to fayetteville state university in fayetteville north carolina . simulcasting of wunc began at 10 00 am on may 13 2015 . 6 on august 4 2016 wunc launched wunc music an adult album alternative format on their hd2 channel and on their website . 7 8 references edit wunc fm your npr station celebrates 25 years of public radio . university of north carolina at chapel hill . march 23 2001 . http www.hdradio.com station guides widget.php id 91 http wunc.org post award winning program story end eight year run due departure host dick gordon a b raleigh durham fm dial . archived from the original on 2003 02 01 . retrieved 2010 04 27 . http transition.fcc.gov fcc bin fmq list 0 & facid 172306 http www.fayobserver.com news local fsu sells campus radio station to wunc article d9fa52bb 3777 5e08 8819 72719b2bae21.html http www.allaccess.com net news archive story 156452 wunc chapel hill launches triple a digital station https radioinsight.com blog headlines 107603 wunc launches hdstreaming aaa external links edit official website query the fcc s fm station database for wunc radio locator information on wunc query nielsen audio s fm station database for wunc query the fcc s fm station database for wrqm radio locator information on wrqm query nielsen audio s fm station database for wrqm query the fcc s fm station database for wund radio locator information on wund query nielsen audio s fm station database for wund query the fcc s fm station database for wunw radio locator information on wunw query nielsen audio s fm station database for wunw v t e radio stations in the raleigh durham market by am frequency 540 570 620 680 750 780 850 1000 1030 1060 1090 1130 1240 1270 1310 1360 1410 1490 1530 1550 1590 by fm frequency 88.1 88.7 88.9 89.3 89.7 90.5 90.7 91.1 91.5 92.1 92.5 93.5 93.9 94.7 96.1 96.9 97.5 98.9 99.1 99.9 100.7 101.1 101.5 101.9 102.3 102.5 102.9 103.5 103.9 104.3 105.1 106.1 106.7 107.1 by callsign waug wbbb wchl wckb wcly wcmc fm wcom lp wcpe wdcg wdnc wdru wdur wead lp wfnl wfxc wfxk whpy wkix fm wkjo wknc fm wkrp wllq wmpm wncb wncu wnnl wpjl wplw wptf wptk wpyb wqdr fm wqok wral wrdu wrjd wrly wrsv wrtg wrtp wsha wtik wtkk wtsb wunc wvrd wwpl wxdu wxyc wyfl wymy north carolina radio markets asheville charlotte fayetteville greensboro winston salem high point greenville new bern jacksonville raleigh durham other north carolina radio regions elizabeth city nags head roanoke rapids south hill rocky mount wilson wilmington see also list of radio stations in north carolina v t e radio stations in the winston salem greensboro high point north carolina market by am frequency 600 700 740 790 830 880 950 980 1040 1070 1090 1200 1220 1230 1300 1320 1340 1380 1400 1420 1440 1470 1490 1500 1510 1520 1550 1560 1590 by fm frequency 88.5 89.3 89.5 91.3 90.1 90.5 90.9 92.3 93.1 94.1 94.5 95.5 96.7 97.1 98.1 98.3 98.7 99.5 99.9 100.3 101.1 102.1 103.1 103.5 104.1 104.7 105.1 105.7 106.7 107.5 by callsign w260cg wbfj wbfj fm wblo wbrf wcog wdsl weal wego wfdd wfoz lp wgos whpe fm wist fm wjmh wkew wkrr wkte wkvk wkzl wloe wlxn wmag wmfr wmks wmyn wnaa wpaq wpaw wpet wpip wpol wpti wqfs wqmg wrev wsgh wsjs wsml wsmw wsmx wsnc wsyd wtjy wtqr wtru wuag wvbz wwbg wwlv wwnt wxri wymy wysr wyzd wzoo north carolina radio markets asheville charlotte fayetteville greensboro winston salem high point greenville new bern jacksonville raleigh durham other north carolina radio regions elizabeth city nags head roanoke rapids south hill rocky mount wilson wilmington see also list of radio stations in north carolina v t e npr member stations in the state of north carolina north carolina public radio stations chapel hill wunc fayetteville wfss manteo wund rocky mount wrqm welcome wunw wcpe stations raleigh wcpe bath wzpe buxton wbux manteo wuri public radio east stations new bern wteb atlantic beach wbjd kinston wkns new bern wznb western north carolina public radio stations asheville wcqs franklin wfqs murphy wmqs other stations charlotte wfae dallas wsge davidson wdav durham wncu elizabeth city wrvs garysburg wzru hickory wfhe mars hill wyqs raleigh wsha spindale wncw wilkesboro wsif wilmington whqr winston salem wfdd winston salem wsnc see also list of npr stations see also adult contemporary classic hits college country news talk npr oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in north carolina v t e chapel hill carrboro north carolina urban areas carrboro chapel hill franklin street southern village unc schools chapel hill carrboro city schools carrboro high chapel hill high east chapel hill high transportation chapel hill transit gotriangle horace williams airport media the carrboro citizen the chapel hill news the daily tar heel stv wchl am wcom lp wllq am wunc wunc tv wxyc fm people mayors of carrboro mayors of chapel hill alderpersons of carrboro town council