Broadcast area Metro Huntington Slogan "The Cutting Edge" First air date 1961 | Branding "88.1 WMUL" Frequency 88.1 MHz | |
WMUL is a college broadcast radio station licensed to Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, serving Metro Huntington. The Marshall University Board of Governors owns WMUL's FCC license and a Board of Directors composed of students and community volunteers, under the direction of Faculty Manager Dr. Charles G. Bailey, handles the day-to-day operations.
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Sports Programming
WMUL's sports department covers more Marshall sporting events live than any other media entity. It broadcasts all of Marshall's home college football games, which is a rare opportunity for college radio stations. It also broadcasts Marshall's home soccer, volleyball, basketball (men's and women's), and baseball games. The station broadcasts some of Marshall's away football, baseball and women's basketball games, and is the exclusive home of the 2013 Conference USA Champion Marshall Softball team.
News Programming
The news department broadcasts newsbriefs at the top of the hour from 12-3 p.m. Monday-Friday. The flagship broadcast, "The 5 p.m. Edition of NewsCenter 88," runs for 30 minutes and covers events happening around Marshall, the Huntington Tri-State region, and the rest of the nation. It also includes the five-minute "FM 88 Sports Report" and a minute-long "Metro Huntington Weather Forecast." The station also produces news/talk shows each semester and occasionally produces and airs the "Insight Into Old Main" series, dealing with various parts of the Marshall University administration.
Awards
As of summer 2015, the station has won over 1500 national and regional awards since 1985, the year Faculty Manager Dr. Charles G. Bailey began tracking awards. The record number of awards attained in one school year was set in 2010-2011, when the station received 131 national and regional awards.
WMUL has won numerous awards through the National Broadcasting Society (NBS) contest, including winning Best Sports Play-by-Play, Best Audio Magazine Program, Best Audio Sports Package, Best Audio Sports Program and Best Audio Promo in the 2015 contest. This contest is open only to individual NBS members and member colleges. Another major contest for the station is The Virginias Associated Press Broadcasters Association awards. The station's FM 88 Sports Team was named Outstanding Sports Operation in the non-metro division of the 2015 Virginias AP Broadcasters Awards. Other winners in that contest were Outstanding Effort by an Individual Reporter, Best Coverage of a Spot News Story, Best Feature or Human Interest Story and Best Sports Feature Story. The Virginias AP Broadcasters Association is open to all broadcast media, commercial and non-commercial, that includes West Virginia and/or Virginia as part or all of its coverage area.