Miami University’s late lamented WMUB Public Radio traces its ancestry to returning WWII vets in the 1940’s who began experimenting with radio signals — AM, carrier current and others, legal and otherwise. Its formal ancestry as an FM station dates from February, 1950, when the FCC granted Miami a license at 88.5. For 59 years WMUB served the campus, the region around southwestern Ohio, and the nation with public radio, beginning as a student lab station and moving through fully professional operation.
Citing a $22 million dollar budget deficit for Miami in fiscal 2010, in February 2009 the administration signed an agreement giving operational control of the station to Cincinnati Public Radio, parent of WVXU-FM and WGUC-FM. Local origination from the Oxford campus ended on February 28, 2009. June 30th, 2009 will be the last day on duty for the former WMUB staff and many others ate Miami. The WMUB facilities will be dismantled shortly thereafter.
As outgoing General Manger, I’m immensely proud that the station is going out of existence on a high note. In May 2009 the news department received seven awards for 2008 work from the Ohio Associated Press — more than any public station in Ohio. In June 2009 we learned that the department had received seven national awards from the Public Radio News Directors, Incorporated. No station in the US earned more.
Between now and June 30th I’ll publish a series of posts about WMUB.
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WMUB has been my preferred choice for radio since my family and I relocated to the Dayton area in 2005.
While WYSO is closer and offers better reception, WMUB’s all news programming truly better suits my wants and interests from college radio.
Even though the change hasn’t been as bad as I had expected, I still miss the old station.