WMOT
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WMOT is a radio station featuring jazz music programming serving the metropolitan Nashville market. It is licensed to Middle Tennessee State University, located in nearby Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Its signal can be heard most clearly in the counties surrounding Nashville. It uses the branding Jazz 89.
Originally started in 1969 as a student-oriented station employing various forms of pop and rock music, WMOT adopted the jazz format in 1982. With the change in format to jazz, the station essentially switched demographic groups, from one consisting primarily of people aged 18-25 to one considerably older-skewing (mainly 35 and over). The format is occasionally broken during the college year to provide broadcasts of MTSU football and basketball games, as the station's signal can be heard across most of Middle Tennessee, and the university's athletic department has little or no success in getting commercial stations in the Midstate to get together in a network like the University of Tennessee and Vanderbilt University have.
Up until the late 1990s, the station carried National Public Radio news programs, but discontinued those in favor of hourly updates from the Associated Press radio service. WMOT made the change in order to avoid duplicating programs like All Things Considered that were heard already on sister public station WPLN-FM in Nashville.
Although WMOT's main educational purpose is to train student announcers and producers (the university's communications school operates the station), several staff announcers have been associated with the station for over a decade or longer, notably Greg Lee, John Egly, Randy O'Brien, and Shawn Jacobs. These men are heard weekday mornings and on newscasts, while MTSU students take the air on afternoons, evenings, and weekends.
Overnights, WMOT airs the syndicated "Jazz with Bob Parlocha", and on Sundays, several hour-long specialty shows are heard, produced by NPR and other packagers. The station takes considerable pride in featuring recordings by locally-based jazz artists in its playlist rotation.
In 1995, the MTSU student government body started another station, WMTS-FM, to serve the campus audience once served by WMOT.
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