WAMC Now on the Air in Remsen, NY at 90.3 FM

ALBANY, NY (01/16/2009)(readMedia)-- WAMC Northeast Public Radio is pleased to announce that WRUN-FM, 90.3 can now be heard in Remsen, NY. It took to the air in December just before the holidays culminating more than a decade of effort. The station serves the Utica-Rome area with Northeast Public Radio's programming 24 hours a day.

WAMC's President and CEO Alan Chartock said "We are delighted to improve the quality of listening to the folks in the Remsen Utica area. Now, for the first time they can get FM Stereo signal. We hope that our good listeners will enjoy it and realize that public radio is public only so long as the people who use the service support it."

The effort to provide this new FM service to Oneida County began in 1997 when WAMC applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to construct the station. Due to a competing application in the area, the FCC began a comparative process to decide which application to grant. An unrelated FCC case resulted in a court decision mandating a change in the Commission's rules in making its choice in comparative situations like this one. The rewriting of the FCC rules delayed the decision for almost a decade until WAMC's application was finally judged superior and the permit to build the station was granted.

WRUN-FM construction began in the summer of 2008 with the assistance of a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting located on an existing communications tower in Steuben, New York. WRUN-FM, 90.3 commenced broadcasting on December 16, 2008.

WAMC Northeast Public Radio broadcasts 24 hours a day with information and cultural programming from stations reaching parts of seven northeastern states. WAMC is an award winning producer of regionally based programming. WAMC is also a member station of National Public Radio and is affiliated with Public Radio International and American Public Media. http://www.wamc.org/

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