WWFM ( FM, "The Classical Network") is a

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owned and operated by

Mercer County Community College Mercer County Community College (MCCC) is a public, community college in Mercer County, New Jersey. More than 7,000 students enroll in one or more credit courses each year. Established in 1966, MCCC has an open-door admission policy. The West ...

. The flagship station is licensed to the Trenton/Princeton area and operates from the West Windsor campus of MCCC. The Classical Network owns and operates WWFM, WWNJ, WWCJ, and WWPJ. It also broadcasts in the Philadelphia market on digital (HD) radio on 89.5 HD2. The Classical Network offers exclusive specialty programs including The Piano Matters, What Makes It Great, Between the Keys, Kids on Keys, PostClassical, The Dress Circle, Sounds Choral, Well-Tempered Baroque, Distant Mirror, Half Past, In A Broadway Minute, The Lyric Stage, The Lost Chord, Picture Perfect, Bach at One, Celebrating Our Music Future, and Celebrating Our Musical Community. The Classical Network partners with prestigious music schools, professional ensembles and concert series presenters for concert broadcasts including Princeton University, Westminster Choir College, Manhattan School of Music, Columbia University, Mannes School of Music, Rutgers University, Temple University, Oberlin College, Northwestern University, The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, The Princeton Symphony Orchestra and The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The Classical Network is award-winning, having won the 2014 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Radio Broadcast Award for WWFM and for the program "Cadenza," produced and hosted by David Osenberg. In 2017 WWFM Artist-in-Residence Jed Distler won the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for his WWFM program "Between the Keys." "The Piano Matters" host David Dubal has also been recognized with an ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award as well as with a George Foster Peabody Award for his previous work in radio and as an author. WWFM hosts Rachel Katz and Bill Zagorski have been recognized with a New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists Award for the program "Vera's Story," a story of survival through the Holocaust. WWFM's Ted Otten and Michael Kownacky have been awarded a National Federation of Community Broadcasters Silver Reel Award for their program "The Dress Circle." In addition to the radio frequencies listed below, The Classical Network and JazzOn2

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at www.wwfm.org.

HD multicasts

WWFM-HD2 is "JazzOn2", which runs a traditional Jazz format. WWFM-HD3 is "Viking 89", MCCC student radio.

WXPN WXPN (88.5 FM) is a non-commercial, public radio station licensed to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that broadcasts an adult album alternative (AAA) radio format, along with many other format shows ...

's XPoNential Radio service airs on the HD3 when Mercer students are not on the air. "JazzOn2" is also on the HD2 channel of WWNJ.

Other Classical Network stations

The Classical Network's programming is also available on the HD2 channel of

WYPA WYPA (89.5 FM) is a non–commercial Christian Worship formatted radio station licensed to serve Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The station is owned by Educational Media Foundation and is a member of the nationally syndicated Air1 radio network. WY ...

Cherry Hill, New Jersey Cherry Hill is a township within Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the township had a population of 74,553, which reflected an increase of 3,508 (+4.94%) from the 71,045 counted in the 2010 census.< ...

on 89.5 HD2.

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