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WMUA (91.1 FM) is a student-run college radio station that until 2015 was a premiere community radio station. Licensed to serve Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, the station is based on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The station's broadcast license is held by the University of Massachusetts.
WMUA was established in 1949 originally as an AM station. Though it is run by undergraduates, other faculty, staff, assorted members of the community, and graduate students contribute to the station.
WMUA is broadcast to the Connecticut River Valley, including western Massachusetts, northern Connecticut, and southern Vermont. The station is federally licensed (authorized by the FCC) and non-commercial, and is under the supervision of the UMass Board of Trustees.
WMUA's studio is located in the basement of the Lincoln Campus Center building. The actual transmitter and antenna are located on Observatory Way, between the Orchard Hill & Sylvan Residential living areas. This facility, activated at midnight on January 1, 2004, is WMUA's third transmission site; it originally transmitted from the atop Marston Hall, and then on Emily Dickinson Dormitory. The Dickinson Dormitory tower in Orchard Hill served as a backup until a re-roofing project took it down in 2011; it is licensed as a backup facility and rebuilding the backup was completed on June 30, 2014. The station is a licensed "class A" broadcast facility.