- Station name Station name
- WBUR 90.9 FM Boston [AAC+]
- Description Description
- The station is the largest of three NPR member stations in Boston, along with WGBH and WUMB-FM and produces nationally distributed programs, including On Point and Here and Now. WBUR previously produced Car Talk, Only a Game, Open Source, and The Connection.
- Launch date Launch date
- 1950-03-01
- Owner Owner
- Boston University
- Contact Contact
- [email protected]
![WBUR 90.9 FM Boston [AAC+] logo](/logos/stations/19858/bbb34146f75e48497c811ec99b7bc636805cf61c@224.webp)
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WBUR 90.9 FM Boston [AAC+]
United States
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63kbps • AAC
WBUR-FM (90.9 FM) is a public radio station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Boston University. Its programming is also known as WBUR News.
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| Country Country |
United States
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|---|---|
| Language Language | English |
| Source Source | RadioBrowser |
| Stream status Stream status | Ok |
| Homepage Homepage | wbur.org |
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FM
Primary frequency
90.9 MHz
Service type
FM
Coverage area
Greater Boston
Owner / network
Boston University
First air date
1950-03-01
Transmitter coordinates
42.3102778, -71.2366667
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| Station ID | 19858 |
|---|---|
| Region | United States, Massachusetts |
| Branding | 90.9 WBUR |
| Owner | Boston University |
| Broadcast area | Greater Boston |
| Launched | 1950-03-01 |
| Website | wbur.org |
| Listen | wbur.org |
| Contact | wbur.org |
| Schedule | wbur.org |
| Contact email | [email protected] |
| Contact phone | 6173580909 |
| Primary frequency | 90.9 MHz |
| Broadcast band | FM |
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| HTTP status | 200 |
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| Content-Type | audio/aac |
| Server software | AIS Streaming Server 9.2.1 |
| Latency | 1743 ms |
| Last check | 13 hours ago |
| Stream host | wbur-sc.streamguys.com |
| Final host | wbur-sc.streamguys.com |
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| Radio Browser | 96332540-0601-11e8-ae97-52543be04c81 |
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| Active stream ID | 19718 |
| Stream SHA1 |
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About station About WBUR 90.9 FM Boston [AAC+]
WBUR-FM (90.9 FM) is a public radio station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Boston University. Its programming is also known as WBUR News.
The station is the largest of three NPR member stations in Boston, along with WGBH and WUMB-FM and produces nationally distributed programs, including On Point and Here and Now. WBUR previously produced Car Talk, Only a Game, Open Source, and The Connection. Radio Boston, launched in 2007, is its only purely local show. WBUR's positioning statement is "Boston's NPR News Station". The station's transmitter is located on Cedar Street in Needham, while its studio is located inside WBUR CitySpace within the Lavine Broadcast Center on the Boston University campus on Commonwealth Avenue. The latter station, located on Martha's Vineyard, uses the frequency formerly occupied by WMVY. In 1998, the station helped launch WRNI in Providence, Rhode Island—the first NPR station within that state's borders. It has since sold the station to a local group. According to Ken Mills, a Minneapolis broadcast consultant and Nielsen data, the number of WBUR listeners has grown since 2012, increasing from 409,000 to 534,400. In 2017, WBUR was named the sixth-most popular NPR news station in the United States.
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