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Station Name:

MPB Think Radio

Frequency:

89.5

Format:

Public Radio

Transmitter Location:

[map] [street view] Between Booneville and Dumas in Mississippi, on County Road 600. Co-located with WMAE-DT.

Power (ERP):

85 kW

Antenna:

Omnidirectional

Antenna HAAT:

653 feet

Other Information:

60 dBu protected contour map, from the FCC.

HD-2: Classical, Arts and Culture

:
PS-MPB 89.5
Time-yes
Text-MPB 89.5 Think Radio
PTY-Classical
PI-WMAE-FM
AF-90.3; 88.1; 88.9; 90.9; 89.5; 89.9; 91.3

AUX: 100 kW @ 518 feet. 60 dBu protected contour map, from the FCC.

More Information:

[FCC]

[FCCdata]

[Radio-Locator]

[Wikipedia]
[Facebook] Facebook for Mississippi Public Broadcasting, which covers both radio and TV.
[Picture] RDS display from an Insignia HD portable, showing the old station ID of the main MPB station in Jackson, WMPN-FM. From October 2015.
[Picture] HD-1 display from an Insignia HD portable.  From October 2015.
[Picture] HD-2 display from an Insignia HD portable.  From October 2015.
[Picture] RDS display from an LG Insite cell phone, showing the PS (station name) and Radio Text fields.  From June 2019.

Owner:

Mississippi Authority for Education Television

History:

This station most likely came on in 1983 as the northeast Mississippi affiliate of Public Radio in Mississippi.  In 2005 the radio and educational television divisions were rebranded as Mississippi Public Broadcasting. The network garnered some notoriety in the summer of 2010 when it abruptly dropped the Fresh Air program after comic Louis CK talked openly about sex.  It quietly re-added the program after the furor died down.  In July 2013 the station relegated all music programming to the HD-2 subchannel, leaving all news and talk on the mainanalog/HD-1 channel.