Srebro served as the first Chairman of Student Educational Broadcasting, Inc. In the intervening time, however, other new FM stations were licensed by the FCC in North Carolina which limited WXYC to only 400 watts of power when it went on the air in March 1977. In 2009 the station relocated its transmitter facilities and increased power to 1,100 watts. In 1994 WXYC disc jockey Michael Shoffner set up the station's Internet radio broadcast, which runs to this day and is widely considered to be the first such broadcast. North Carolina Public Radio (WUNC) is also affiliated with the university. Alumni Rick Dees Peter Gammons, Boston Globe sportswriter Stuart Scott, deceased, coanchor of ESPN SportsCenter Ken Lowe, President and CEO of E.W. Scripps Co., who was known in the early 1970s by his WKIX air name of Steve Roddy Peyton Reed, director of The Weird Al Show and other films Jim Bond, Washington D.C. retired broadcasting consultant, Bond and Pecaro Bob Heymann, former NBC and CBS radio announcer and current national radio and TV station broker at Media Services Group Randy Wolfe, CBS News producer John Altschuler, executive producer and writer for King of the Hill Deborah Potter, President and Executive Director of NewsLab, and a former correspondent for CBS and CNN, was station manager of WCAR in the early 1970s Scott Jacobson, TV writer for Bob's Burgers, formerly Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show Tom Maxwell, former member of the Squirrel Nut Zippers Dave Brylawski, former Polvo guitarist Colin Soloway, Newsweek reporter Brant Hart, Operations Manager at GHB Broadcasting in Charlotte. Hosted "The Unoriginal Sunday Night Hall of Fame" on WCAR 1971-73 as Brian Lee. References External links WXYC history at RDU RadioWaves XYC XYC University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill media University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student organizations Radio stations established in 1972