WOI-FM (90.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to
Ames, Iowa
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, serving the greater Ames/
Des Moines
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area. The station is owned by
Iowa State University
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. WOI-FM is an affiliate of
Iowa Public Radio
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, and carries IPR's "News and Studio One" service—a mix of
National Public Radio
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news programming and
adult alternative
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music.
WOI-FM first hit the airwaves on December 1, 1949. It was originally a full-time simulcast of
WOI-AM. The two stations went their separate ways in the 1960s.
Until the formation of Iowa Public Radio in 2004, WOI-FM was the flagship station for a mini-network of FM stations in central Iowa, including
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