WUMB-FM in Boston, Massachusetts) is the radio station

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 of University of Massachusetts Boston

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. It broadcasts a folk and acoustic mix weekdays and on weekends the station concentrates on traditional folk, Celtic, blues, afropop and world music.
The station has received many awards for its folk music programming.

WUMB can be heard throughout Massachusetts on repeater signals owned and operated by the University of Massachusetts

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 throughout the state of Massachusetts. WUMB-FM can also be heard on the Internet and through the iTunes

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 radio tuner service.

WUMB-FM is noncommercial and operates as a United States-style public radio

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 station, and also carries some NPR programming.

Since 1997 WUMB has sponsored a live folk festival held at the University of Massachusetts, Boston called the Boston Folk Festival. In 2010 it was named the WUMB Music Fest.

Repeater Stations

In addition to the main station, WUMB is relayed by five repeaters to widen its broadcast area.

Call sign Call sign In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign is a unique designation for a transmitting station. In North America they are used as names for broadcasting stations...	City of license City of license A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator....	Frequency Radio frequency Radio frequency is a rate of oscillation in the range of about 3 kHz to 300 GHz, which corresponds to the frequency of radio waves, and the alternating currents which carry radio signals...	Watt Watt The watt is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units , named after the Scottish engineer James Watt . The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.-Definition:... age	Class	Additional Information
WFPB	Orleans, Massachusetts Orleans, Massachusetts Orleans is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. Barnstable County is coextensive with Cape Cod. The population was 5,890 at the 2010 census....	1170 kHz	1,000 watts daytime only	D	FCC Radio-Locator
WBPR	Worcester, Massachusetts Worcester, Massachusetts Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, as of the 2010 Census the city's population is 181,045, making it the second largest city in New England after Boston....	91.9 MHz	370 watts	A	FCC Radio-Locator
WFPB-FM	Falmouth, Massachusetts Falmouth, Massachusetts Falmouth is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States; Barnstable County is coextensive with Cape Cod. The population was 31,531 at the 2010 census....	91.9 MHz	300 watts horizontal/ 6,000 watts vertical	A	FCC Radio-Locator
WNEF	Newburyport, Massachusetts Newburyport, Massachusetts Newburyport is a small coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, 35 miles northeast of Boston. The population was 21,189 at the 2000 census. A historic seaport with a vibrant tourism industry, Newburyport includes part of Plum Island...	91.7 MHz	1 watt horizontal/ 1,000 watts vertical	A	FCC Radio-Locator
WUMG	Stow, Massachusetts Stow, Massachusetts Stow is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,590 at the 2010 census.- History :Stow was first settled c. 1660 by Matthew Boon and John Kettell...	91.7 MHz	500 watts shares time with WAVM WAVM WAVM is a high school radio station broadcasting from Maynard High School in Maynard, Massachusetts. Station programming provides the local area with news and church service broadcasts among other types of programming...	A	FCC Radio-Locator
WUMT	Marshfield, Massachusetts Marshfield, Massachusetts Marshfield is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on Massachusetts's South Shore. The population was 25,132 at the 2010 census.See also: Green Harbor, Marshfield , Rexhame, Marshfield Hills, and Ocean Bluff and Brant Rock....	91.7 MHz	1100 watts	A	http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=122278

External links

• WUMB Folk Radio official website