Owned by Central Carolina Community College in Sanford, WUAW broadcasts from the campus of Erwin's Triton High School through an arrangement between CCCC and Harnett County Schools. WUAW signed on in April of 1989, and kept very irregular broadcast hours until going to 24-hour operation around 2002. The station's low dial position on a fairly clear channel is ideal for reception well into Raleigh proper.