WEVL

35.153333333333 - 89.991944444444Koordinaten: 35 ° 9 ' 12 " N, 89 ° 59' 31" W

WEVL is an American radio stations from Memphis, Tennessee. WEVL sends in Memphis to 89.9 MHz ( FM ).

History

The existing since 1976 transmitter is operated mainly by volunteers and has only three full-time employees. The DJs make their own broadcasts largely autonomous, the programs have a wide range of musical accordingly. However, a major part of the program focuses on the genres folk, blues, gospel, rockabilly, and world music.

Initially, the station broadcast with a 10- watt transmitter and was considered a " mystery of the inner city communities " in Memphis. He now owns a 4,800 - watt transmitter. The transmission area now has around about a radius of 80 miles of Memphis.

In surveys of newspaper Memphis Flyer WEVL lands regularly among the top 3 of the radio station in Memphis. The sender is considered " one of the jewels of the city ." According to the magazine Southern Living " it is not only by far the best radio station in Memphis, but also to a large extent responsible for ensuring that Memphis is still a very noble city of music ". The American Heritage Magazine turn sees WEVL most likely of all radio stations in the city in the wake of Dewey Phillips, the radio DJ who played first Elvis Presley plates.

Nationally, in the media became the transmitter by the murder of one of his most well-known DJs, Dee Henderson, who for 26 years Cap'n Pete 's Blues Cruise designed. For that he got including the Keeping The Blues Alive Award of the Blues Foundation.