WUST

WUST
City	Washington, DC
Broadcast area	Washington metropolitan area
Branding	New World Radio
Slogan	The Multicultural Voice of the Nation's Capital
Frequency	1120 kHz AM
First air date	1947
Format	Ethnic, Brokered programming
Power	20,000 watts daytime 3,000 watts critical hours
Class	D
Facility ID	48686
Callsign meaning	W U STreet, a past station studio location
Former callsigns	WBCC
Owner	New World Radio, Inc
Website	http://www.wust1120.com/

WUST (1120 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to Washington, DC. Its transmitter is located in nearby Fairfax, Virginia. WUST broadcasts paid foreign language programming, including an English language news program from China Radio International and French language programming from Radio France International. WUST operates at 20,000 watts during the day but it must reduce power during early morning hours and go off the air during the night to protect the signal of KMOX in St. Louis, which is the dominant Class A station on 1120 AM.

WUST first signed on in 1947 as WBCC, licensed to the Washington, DC suburb of Bethesda, Maryland with 250 watts of power, broadcasting in the daytime only.^[1] It had been a rhythm and blues station. Its call letters came from its studio location at 1120 U Street, NW, later moving to 815 V Street NW, site of today's 9:30 Night Club).

During the 1950s, DJs Lord Fauntleroy Bandy and "Terrible" Thomas popularized R&B music with high school students, weaning them from Top 40. Part of the appeal of WUST was its location in the red light district of the time.

During late August 1963, the ballroom of the WUST studio served as the operations headquarters for the August 28 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. ^[2]

References

↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1948, page 140
↑ Euchner, Charles, "Nobody Turn Me Around: A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington", 2010.

External links

Official Website

Query the FCC's AM station database for WUST

Radio-Locator Information on WUST

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WUST
1959 Broadcasting Yearbook, pages B-127 (ad), B-165 (listing) Example of station listing and industry ad for station
Historical 1969 photo of building exterior from John In Montana
Historical 1986 photos of building exterior from Kinorama on Flickr

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Weekly programs	Front Line Biz-China China Horizons Voices from Other Lands Life in China Listeners' Garden In the Spotlight China Beat

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Stations	WUST - Washington, D.C.

Coordinates: 38°54′15″N 77°09′54″W / 38.90417°N 77.16500°W / 38.90417; -77.16500

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