| Simulcasts WNRN-FM, Charlottesville | |
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| Broadcast area | Amherst, Virginia Amherst County, Virginia |
| Frequency | 89.9 MHz |
| Branding | WNRN |
| Programming | |
| Format | Adult album alternative |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Stu-Comm, Inc. |
| WHAN, WNRN, WNRN-FM, WRJR | |
| History | |
First air date | October 1979; 44 years ago (1979-10) |
Former call signs | WUDZ (1979–2000)[1] |
Former frequencies | 91.5 MHz (1979–1999)[1] |
Call sign meaning | "WNRN Sweet Briar" |
| Technical information[2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 74157 |
| Class | A |
| ERP | 1,100 watts |
| HAAT | 169 m (554 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°31′58.0″N 79°5′33.0″W / 37.532778°N 79.092500°W / 37.532778; -79.092500 |
| Links | |
Public license information |
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| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wnrn.org |
WNRS-FM (89.9 MHz) is an adult album alternative formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Sweet Briar, Virginia, serving Amherst and Amherst County, Virginia. WNRS is owned and operated by Stu-Comm, Inc.[3] and simulcasts WNRN-FM full-time.
WUDZ ("woods") signed on in late 1979 as Sweet Briar College's student radio station, replacing an earlier Part 15 station that had the unofficial callsign of WSBC.[4] The station was originally licensed for just 10 watts – good for reception at a five-mile radius from campus – but upgraded to 100 watts during 1980.[5]
By 1997, WUDZ was broadcasting for the legally required minimum of 36 hours per week: 6 p.m. through midnight on Sunday through Thursday, off on Friday, and noon through 6 p.m. on Saturday.[6] In February 2000, the callsign was changed to WNRS-FM. That April, Sweet Briar entered into a local marketing agreement to rent its extra airtime to Stu-Comm, Inc., who filled the hours not programmed by students with a relay of WNRN.[7] The station moved to a 30-watt transmitter from the 2,900-foot Tobacco Row Mountain west of Sweet Briar in 2002, allowing reception in car radios in Lynchburg.[8]
Sweet Briar College sold WNRS-FM outright to Stu-Comm in 2010.[8] By this time, Sweet Briar programming had dwindled to a single three-hour window on Mondays through Thursdays during the school year.[9] WSWE-LP has since launched as a new outlet for student programming.
In 2011, Stu-Comm attempted to move WNRS-FM to a 20-kilowatt transmitter on near Appomattox Court House, which would have given the station a 50-mile radius from the Roanoke metropolitan area east to Powhatan County and south to the North Carolina border. A first application was dismissed in 2011 as the Federal Communications Commission primarily determined a signal on 89.9 from this location would cause unacceptable interference to multiple other stations.[10] A second application on 89.5 from the same location progressed to the construction permit stage and received local zoning approval, but was abandoned in July 2015.[8]
Stu-Comm has since moved the station off of Tobacco Row Mountain back to the town of Sweet Briar, in order to increase its power from 30 to 1100 watts.[8]
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