Submitted Press Release | University of Virginia, Office of Communications | Wednesday, July 01, 2015 at 8 a.m.

News Release
Office of University Communications

Contact: Dan Heuchert
434-924-6857
danh@virginia.edu

Student Radio Station WXTJ To Begin Broadcasting on FM

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 1, 2015 — WXTJ, a radio station run entirely by University of Virginia students, is slated to begin broadcasting at 100.1 FM – supplementing its continuing online broadcast – sometime within the coming months.

Originally established in August 2013 as an Internet-only offshoot of WTJU-FM, U.Va.’s non-commercial educational radio station, WXTJ will feature free-form programming curated by more than 100 volunteer student disc jockeys. Its signal will go out over a low-power FM broadcast covering the city of Charlottesville and nearby suburbs.

WXTJ was developed by members of WTJU to increase student engagement in radio broadcasting at the University. When WTJU was founded in 1957, the on-air hosts were students, and the programming was predominantly classical.