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PO Box 58/1301 East Main Street
Murfreesboro, TN
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In 1992, a group of students came together to create what is now known as WMTS. WMTS is the result of a fourth attempt to get a student run radio station in operation at Middle Tennessee State University. While our sister station, WMOT employs students, many other students in the campus community felt “left out” and unrepresented. The group of students, led by Reza Bhakter, managed to create enough interest to build a studio from the Radio/TV department’s equipment scrap heap. The first broadcast started in March 1992 on campus cable channel 38 (the campus housing channel) from 8pm to midnight. The call letters were WNAR which stood for We Need a Radio. This statement expressed the need for an FM frequency and a transmitter to enter the realm of the airwaves. As time drew on, more interest grew in MTSU’s student radio station.
Our membership grew from around 15 students to over 100 students (which is our present day status). In 1995, we were finally awarded a construction permit to build our FM transmission facilities and broadcast on 88.3 FM. The initial tests and later broadcasts were in mono over a low fidelity broadcast line. Needless to say, we sounded horrible. But we had finally done it. We made it to the FM band and were broadcasting to Middle Tennessee at 200 watts. As a goodwill gesture to our success of getting a frequency, WMTS 810 AM (now known as WAPB) donated their call letters to the station. They felt since we were MTSU’s station, the “M-T-S” in the call letters would better represent the university. As the year drew to a close, we knew an audience was slowly building for the station.
Near the end of the Fall 1995 semester, WMTS Policy Manual 5 WMTS finally went stereo. This was a landmark advance in our programming since the signal didn’t sound horrible like before. It was a catalyst for establishing more contacts with record labels to get more music into WMTS. Our station went to a 24/7 operation during Christmas break with an automation system donated by WMOT. Ever since this time, WMTS has expanded it’s programming into new realms of entertainment. The future of WMTS is endless. Some of our future goals are broadcasting on the Internet and increasing our power to cover a larger portion of Middle Tennessee. Our future depends on you and the Middle Tennessee community. WMTS can only succeed through the power of the people.
