WEMU FM 89.1

A noncommercial FM radio station licensed to Ypsilanti, Michigan, and owned by Eastern Michigan University. It serves Washtenaw County, Ann Arbor, and the western suburbs of Detroit as an NPR member station. The format combines NPR news and information programming during morning and afternoon drive times with jazz music throughout the remainder of the broadcast day. Weekends feature jazz, blues, adult alternative, Latin jazz, NPR weekend talk shows, and EMU sports broadcasts. Studios are located at King Hall next to Roosevelt Hall on the EMU campus on North Huron Street; the transmitter is near the EMU campus on West Clark Road at Laforge Road. WEMU signed on December 8, 1965, originally broadcasting on 88.1 MHz from studios in the Quirk Building on the Eastern Michigan University campus. In 1976, the station moved to King Hall. In February 1977, WEMU adopted its primarily jazz format, and in October of that year changed to its current 89.1 MHz frequency. Digital broadcasting was added on April 7, 2004, and the station streams live continuously online. The station holds one of the largest jazz broadcast libraries in the United States, comprising nearly 100,000 records and CDs according to a 2017 inventory. WEMU shares King Hall with the student newspaper The Eastern Echo and the Early College Alliance program. In addition to NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition, the station carries Public Radio International programming and hosts the EMU sports network, broadcasting EMU football and basketball.