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Deborah Proctor, General Manager
William Woltz, Outreach Director
phone:
(919) 556-5178
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(919) 556-9273
e-mail:
will@wcpe.org

For Immediate Release:

GREAT CLASSICAL MUSIC NOW AT 95.3 FM IN FAYETTEVILLE

Classical music fans in Fayetteville, N.C., can enjoy the music they love at a new spot on their radio dial: 95.3 FM.

That's the frequency for The Classical Station, WCPE, via its new repeater transmitter in Fayetteville. The repeater went on the air Sunday evening.

WCPE is a listener-supported, non-commercial radio station based in Wake Forest. The new station, whose call letters are W237CM, relays WCPE's Great Classical Music programming 24 hours a day.

The repeater broadcasts with a power of 10 watts from an antenna mounted 600 feet above the ground on a radio tower belonging to Cumulus Communications. The tower is located on Bragg Avenue.

WCPE has numbered Fayetteville listeners among its loyal members for years but, because of the distance from the station's transmitter in northern Wake County, the signal fades in the central and southern parts of the city. The repeater is intended to provide better reception in those areas.

This is the latest step in WCPE's mission to bring Great Classical Music to everyone, everywhere, free of charge. The station has broadcast for more than 27 years, and since 1998 has employed satellite and Internet technology to reach listeners beyond the traditional limits of its FM radio signal.

WCPE serves central North Carolina and southern Virginia with a 100,000-watt signal on 89.7 FM, broadcasting from northern Wake County. Other repeater stations bring the station's programming to Bath, New Bern and the Sandhills communities of Aberdeen, Foxfire, Pinehurst and Southern Pines. A partnership with WUNC Radio brings WCPE to the North Carolina Outer Banks over radio stations in Manteo and Buxton.

Affiliated radio stations and cable TV systems across the country carry WCPE's Great Classical Music by satellite, and owners of home satellite receivers are also among WCPE's listeners and supporters. In addition, WCPE streams its programming on the Internet in five distinct formats, to reach the widest range of listeners.

WCPE's music can be heard on the Internet in RealAudio, Windows Media, QuickTime, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis streaming technologies. This programming is also available on large-dish satellite Galaxy 12, Transponder 8, at 6.30 and 6.48 MHz. Owners of 4DTV satellite receivers can tune to G5 959. WCPE's small-dish signal is on satellite AMC-1, Transponder 12K, vertical polarization, downlink 11942 MHz, IF 1192 MHz, FEC 3/4, symbol rate 20 Mb, audio PID 5417 decimal or 1529 hex, SID 81. Please call or write WCPE for more information.

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