Public Radio Programming
Now Available to Long Island Listeners on WCWP 88.1 FM
National Public Radio's popular Morning Edition,
Monitor Radio's Early Edition and BBC World Service Overnight are now available
to Long Island listeners on a new network of public radio stations.
The stations, on two campuses of Long Island University,
are WPBX 88.3 FM at Southampton College and, as of October 1996, WCWP 88.1
FM on the C.W. Post Campus in Brookville.
Long Island University is expanding public radio
services to Long Island, which was identified in the late 1980s by the National
Telecommunications and Information Agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce
as one of the nation's most underserved areas for public radio.
"The creation of the new Long Island Public
Radio Network is a history-making first," according to Dr. David J.
Steinberg, president of Long Island University.
From 2 a.m. to 9 a.m. weekdays, WCWP 88.1 FM will
carry - via fiber-optic cable - WPBX's programming. WPBX has experienced
a growing listenership on the east end of Long Island since it began offering
public radio services in 1995.
The programming schedule for the new Long Island
Radio Network is:
- 2 - 5 a.m. - BBC World Service Overnight
- 5 - 6 a.m. - Monitor Radio Early Edition
- 6 - 9 a.m. - National Public Radio's (NPR) Morning
Edition
Each station will originate its own programming
for the rest of the day: WPBX also provides National Public Radio's "All
Things Considered" and Public Radio International's "Market Place"
in the early evening hours.
"Long Island University has a long-term commitment
to public radio as one of the many ways we serve our communities,"
said Dr. Steinberg. "NPR access provides an opportunity for our students
to deal with the country's extraordinary phenomenon of national public radio
service and enables us to make a strong contribution to a well-informed
public."
"If you're driving on the LIE, you can tune
into 88.3 FM on the east end and 88.1 FM on the west end," said Frank
Sundram, general manager of WPBX.
In the next few months, the university anticipates
moving the WPBX transmitter west to a tower in Manorville expanding Long
Island University's public radio and providing broadcasting to nearly 5.5
million people on Long Island, Manhattan, the Bronx, and parts of Connecticut,
Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
WPBX 88.3 FM at Long Island University's Southampton
College is a 24-hour public radio station and broadcasts at 25,000 watts.
For more than 30 years, WCWP 88.1 FM has served
as the student station for Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus. The
station, located in the Benjamin and Elizabeth Abrams Communication Center,
is used as both a training facility for future broadcast professionals and
as an outlet for new music. WCWP is run through the School of Visual and
Performing Arts' Communications Arts Department.
For more information call the C.W. Post Public
Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail cwpostpr@aurora.liunet.edu
October 1996 | 
