WSHA-FM 88.9 History


WSHA is the radio voice of Raleigh's Shaw University. Shaw made history with WSHA's 1968 sign-on becoming the first historically black college in America to own a radio station. WSHA used to transmit their signal from a small antenna located atop a building at their downtown Raleigh campus before moving to a taller antenna off Interstate 40 in southeast Raleigh in the late 1990s. With the move, they boosted their power from 12,500 watts to 25,000 watts. To accomodate the power boost, Fayetteville State University's WFSS, once at 89.1 FM, moved up the dial to 91.9. In fall of 2003, WSHA upped their power to 50,000 watts. WSHA carries a mixture of jazz and gospel, along with community interest programs.

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