WERS (88.9 FM) is one of Emerson College's two radio stations (the other being campus station

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), located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Programming features over 20 different styles of music and news, including live performances and interviews. WERS stands as the oldest non-commercial radio station in New England, and has been in operation since November 1949. Among the founders of the station was WEEI program director Arthur F. Edes, who first taught broadcasting courses at Emerson in 1932 and helped to plan a campus radio station. The chief architect of WERS in its early years was Professor Charles William Dudley.

Translators

In June 2007, WERS inaugurated a

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on 96.5

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in New Bedford, Massachusetts, relaying WERS's programming to New Bedford and nearby communities. Another translator, on 101.5 MHz in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on

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, went on the air in July 2008.

Critical acclaim

According to

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, WERS is the #1 college radio station in America, an award the station has won or come close to winning almost every year since The Princeton Review started ranking colleges. WERS is the most highly rated student-run college radio station in the US. In the Boston market (10th largest in the nation), WERS's daytime programming usually ranks at 20th to 25th.

Sports

In the late 1990s and mid-2000s, WERS featured a successful sports-themed program, ''Sports Sunday'', which aired Sundays from noon to 2 pm. The program won three consecutive

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annual awards for student sports programming (2002, 2003, and 2004). Guests of the show included former basketball great

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, ''

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'' columnist Kevin Paul DuPont,

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commissioner Joe Bertagna, former Northeastern University men’s hockey head coach

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, InsideHockey.com columnist James Murphy, and

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columnist Bob Snow. Former show hosts include Lon Nichols (current anchor for

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in Lincoln, Nebraska), Lowell Galindo (current

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anchor), Tom Gauthier (current radio broadcaster and director of media relations for the

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), Justin Termine (current anchor and producer for NBA Radio on Sirius), Mike Gastonguay (interned as an associate producer for KXTA’s ''Loose Cannons''), Matt Porter (''

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beat reporter), Steve Crowe (''Boston Globe'' part-timer) and Ryan Heisler (noted triathlete).

References

External links

Official Website

WERS Broadcast Stream

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