City Bloomington, Indiana Format Community Radio | Frequency 91.3 MHz | |
Broadcast area Bloomington, Ellettsville, Nashville IN Branding Bloomington community radio Repeater(s) 98.1 (Bloomington)
106.3 (Ellettsville)
100.7 (Nashville) | ||
WFHB 91.3 FM is a community radio FM station in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. The station has three translators serving southern Indiana: 98.1 in Bloomington, 100.7 in Nashville and 106.3 in Ellettsville.
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WFHB has a small paid staff and over 200 volunteers, who perform a range of duties, from office administration to music and news programming. The station is supported financially by contributions from listeners and program underwriting by local businesses, as well as by community service grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Station history
The idea for WFHB began in the summer of 1975, when radio enthusiasts from Bloomington attended the National Alternative Radio Konference in Madison, Wisconsin. After returning from the conference, they founded a non-profit organization to establish a community radio station and began the process of applying for a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license and raising the necessary funds. Eighteen years later, on January 4, 1993, following numerous applications and several court cases, WFHB began broadcasting in a former city fire station in downtown Bloomington.
Translators
In addition to its main frequency, WFHB is relayed by three translators to widen its broadcast area.