WSOE 89.3
The Only Alternative
WSOE is a student-run noncommercial radio station based at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina. The station's transmitter is located on the south side of Harden Dining Hall, while the studios are located in the second floor of Moseley Center. The original WSOE studio, news room, office, and production room was located across from Harden Dining Hall. The entire station was moved (with the exception of the transmitter and radio tower) over the winter of 1994 into the then newly-opened Moseley Center.
WSOE provides a live stream over the internet, and beginning in 2007, WSOE began podcasting select shows, including band interviews. Currently, WSOE can be heard approximately ten miles from Elon, but long-term plans are also in the works to provide WSOE to the Elon School of Law in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina.
Format
WSOE's format is alternative rock, however the station's charter requires jazz played every weekday morning from 6 am to 10 am, and until 12 pm on Fridays. WSOE has an automated broadcast system using RCS software that broadcasts music 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, all year long. This allows for WSOE to broadcast all the time. The RCS system plays the current music in rotation, as well as jazz during the applicable time. The automation system is always running, but it can be and is turned down so that student and local DJs can do their show and play their music.
Every weekday from 6 pm to 10 pm has a certain theme for specialty shows (as opposed to format shows, which are regulated on what they can play). Tuesday is Talk Tuesdays from 4 pm to midnight, and listeners can tune into a variety of programs including the political talk show In The Know, which airs from 9 pm – 10 pm on Tuesdays, and The Big Show, which also airs from 9 am to 10 am on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Sports Coverage
WSOE provides exclusive coverage of Elon University volleyball, women's basketball, and men's and women's soccer and baseball at home games. All sports broadcasts include pre- and post-game interviews and coverage. In addition, WSOE also hosts a pre-game football show. There are also weekly sports talk shows called Sports Time, "4th and 15," and "Smacktalk Sports."
Management
WSOE is run by a board of nine executive staff members, a student general manager, and one faculty advisor, not including the approximately 100 DJs who host one- or two-hour shows. All aspects of the station are run by the student executive staff, including bills, music, and most production.
WSOE is overseen by the Elon University Media Board, which oversees all student media at Elon including the newspaper The Pendulum, the television station ESTV, the yearbook Phi Psi Cli, and the literary magazine Colonnades; with all of which WSOE works closely by providing promotional spots to ESTV and The Pendulum, which in return run promos for and dedicate sections to WSOE.
