91.1 wzbt gettysburg slogan gettysburg s address for the best new music frequency 91.1 first air date october 23 1978 format indie rock adult album alternative jazz freeform format power 500 watts erp 350 watts haat 116 feet class a facility id 24132 transmitter coordinates 39 50 29 n 77 13 25 w former callsigns wwgc am 1948 1978 former frequencies 90.3 mhz 1978 1982 owner gettysburg college webcast website direct play playlist website http www.wzbt.org wzbt 91.1 fm is a radio station licensed to gettysburg college located in gettysburg pennsylvania united states . wzbt broadcasts as an independent student managed non commercial fm radio station serving the greater adams county pennsylvania community with music news and other programs as an fcc licensed broadcast entity since 1978 . with an approximate broadcast radius of 35 miles from the center of gettysburg pennsylvania wzbt reaches a wide audience located in south central pennsylvania and upper maryland . supervised by gettysburg college administrators and faculty and operated by the students of gettysburg college wzbt s purposes are to offer an effective means of responsible communication for students faculty staff and community members to be a source of information within and beyond the confines of the college and to provide entertainment for its audience . contents 1 history 2 programming 3 references 4 external links history edit founded in 1948 as wwgc the station was formed as a student run media club on the gettysburg college campus . the station was an on campus only closed circuit radio system utilizing telephony transmission to dorm rooms and dining halls . financed by the student chest and fully administered by students wwgc s first studio was located on the third floor of breidenbaugh hall and broadcast was limited to three hours per evening six days per week . during the fall of 1975 the gettysburg college board of trustees granted approval to wwgc am to transform from its closed circuit am frequency to a full service terrestrial radio fm station and received its first fcc license for educational fm broadcast in 1976 . with initial funding from the parents committee that summer wwgc was reborn as wzbt 90.3 fm on october 23 1978 . it began as a 10 watt educational fm collegiate radio station with an effective radius of 1 mile that covered the entire campus and downtown gettysburg area . in 1982 wzbt expanded to a class a non commercial radio broadcast entity and was reassigned to the 91.1 radio frequency . the station also increased its wattage from 10 to 128 watts expanding its reach even further into the gettysburg community . in 1991 wzbt was displaced from its studio located in the college union building . the station remained off the air for close to a year until the president s council allocated the funds for the station to build its new studio on the first floor of the plank gymnasium . wzbt was reborn again in the spring of 1992 in its new facilities and was given approval to move its transmitter off campus to the wgty tower in gettysburg pennsylvania . with another increase to 180 watts the station was able to broadcast a total radius of twenty miles . in 2008 wzbt optimized its terrestrial coverage with a new 500 watt transmitter placed at 213 feet at the new wgty tower with fcc license approval to cover the entirety of adams county 1 giving wzbt an erp of 350 watts as a class a fm broadcast entity . 2 additionally in 2008 wzbt also acquired a new radio automation system and for the first time in its 60 year history the station was able to broadcast twenty four hours a day seven days a week . programming edit wzbt s programming consists of both live dj shows and fully programmed automation that plays a wide variety of music from indie rock modern rock jazz blues folk electronica and americana . wzbt s live internet stream allows individuals to listen to its programming without any geographic limits . it can be accessed via the station s streaming page 3 or on the tunein streaming platform . 4 wzbt was formerly cmj radio 200 loud rock and jazz reporting station until july of 2016 . currently the station contributes it full airplay playlist to the spinitron reporting and publishing service for the industry . 5 references edit wzbt coverage map radio locator.com fm query page wzbt fcc.gov wzbt stream stream page wzbt 91.1 tunein page stream page wzbt spinitron page wzbt playlist external links edit official website wzbt 91.1 fm at gettysburg college query the fcc s fm station database for wzbt radio locator information on wzbt query nielsen audio s fm station database for wzbt v t e pennsylvania college radio stations warc allegheny college wbuq bloomsburg university wcal california university of pennsylvania wclh wilkes university wcuc fm clarion university wcur west chester university wdcv fm dickinson college wdnr widener university werg gannon university wess east stroudsburg university wexp la salle university wfse 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