WKNC, North Carolina State University's student-run radio station, is one of the top-rated college radio stations in the United States. Broadcasting at 25,000 watts, its signal covers a large portion of North Carolina. The station is entirely student-run and operated, from the DJs up through the station manager and technicians. Its primary weekday format is rock, With various general rock starting around 5:00AM on weekday mornings and continuing throughout the daytime into the early evening. weekday evenings and late-nights are filled by various local talkshows, Afterhours (various forms of electronic/techno music) and the Underground (hip hop), respectively. It also features specialty shows including Sports Revolution, Chainsaw Rock (heavy metal), latin, bluegrass, Geet Bazaar (music from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and others), world music, a capella, punk rock, 80s rock/pop, and music local to North Carolina. North Carolina State University at Raleigh is a public land-grant university located in Raleigh, North Carolina. ... Techno is a form of electronic music that emerged in the mid-1980s and primarily refers to a particular style developed in and around Detroit and subsequently adopted by European producers. ... Hip hop is a cultural movement that began amongst urban African American youth in New York and has since spread around the world. ... It has been suggested that true metal be merged into this article or section. ... Bluegrass has three principal meanings, the second two both deriving from the first listed. ... A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... State nickname: Tar Heel State; Old North State Other U.S. States Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Governor Michael Easley (D) Senators Elizabeth Dole (R) Richard Burr (R) Official language(s) English Area 139,509 km² (28th)  - Land 126,256 km²  - Water 13,227 km² (9. ...

The station also carries all of NCSU's women's basketball and men's baseball games and occasionally partners with other athletics and campus programs to cover other significant events on and off campus.

History

• 1922 - First licensed as WLAC by communications department faculty and students; it was the second radio station in North Carolina.
• 1923 - WLAC signed off due to financial troubles.
• 1944 - A group of engineering students establish WOLF (the mascot of NCSU is the Wolfpack) as a carrier current station for on-campus listeners.
• 1945 - The station's call letters were changed to WNCS (W-North Carolina State) and the station was recognized by the Student Publications Authority. With university support, a permanent home for the station was established on campus.
• 1947 - The call letters were changed, again, to WVWP (W-Voice of the Wolf Pack) as the station experimented with broadcasting sporting events.
• 1948 - The station broadcast all home basketball games.
• 1952 - The FCC shut the station down for over-radiation of its signal.
• 1954 - WVWP returned to the airways.
• 1958 - A final call letter change from WVWP to WKNC, 580 AM.
• October, 1966 - WKNC 580AM became WKNC 88.1FM through a decision to expand the station's coverage. (As a carrier current station, WKNC could only be heard on-campus in three of the residence halls.) KNC went on air with a 10 watt transmitter and its combination of folk, jazz, and classical could be heard in most of the surrounding city.
• 1972 - The station moved into studios in the University Student Center, and a 30 foot antenna tower was built atop the University's library.
• 1974 - Output power was increased to 1,000 watts. Format changed to a progressive rock style, but continued to feature top-40, jazz, and soul.
• early 1980s - Power increase to 3,000 watts (approximately a 40 mile radius of coverage.)
• 1980s - The station moved into a hard rock/heavy metal format and gained praise as one of the top college stations in the nation.
• 1991 - WKNC moved into its current home atop the Student Center Annex (later named the Witherspoon Student Center).
• 1990s - Transmission power was increased to 10,000 watts.
• late 1990s & early 2000s - The format changed from a hard rock format to a wider blend of music, focusing on independent and non-top-40 artists.
• 2003 - Power was increased to 25,000 watts, making WKNC one of the most powerful college radio stations in America.

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References

• WKNC website: History