WFAE (90.7 MHz) is a non-commercial public radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is the main NPR news and information member in the Charlotte region. The station's main studios and offices are at One University Place in the University City neighborhood of northeast Charlotte. A satellite studio is at Spirit Square on North College Street in downtown Charlotte. WFAE has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for non-grandfathered FM stations. The transmitter is located in northeastern Mecklenburg County. WFAE broadcasts using HD Radio technology. Its HD-2 digital subchannel has a jazz format and its HD-3 subchannel carries the Public Radio Exchange (PRX) Remix. Programming On weekdays, WFAE has all news and information programming. It carries NPR's national shows such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, 1A, Here and Now, The Takeaway and Marketplace, along with the BBC World Service heard overnight. WFAE produces an hour-long weekday call-in program, Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins, heard live at 9 a.m. and repeated at 7 p.m. Frequent news updates come from NPR and the WFAE news staff. On weekends, WFAE features specialty programs. Weekly NPR shows include Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, This American Life, Ask Me Another, The TED Radio Hour, On The Media and The New Yorker Radio Hour. Sunday evenings include the New Age music and Electronica show Echoes. History Student-run station On April 18, 1977, WFAE first signed on the air. It was the student radio service of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, broadcasting classical music and jazz. It was originally on 90.9 MHz from a 10-watt transmitter atop the library building. It succeeded a student-run carrier current station known as "WVFN" (Voice of the Forty Niners), which operated from the basement of the Cone University Center. As of 1976, the station had reduced the amount of Top 40 music and increased jazz programming. The outlet was limited by its small budget, $25,000 a year, all collected from UNCC student fees. Its signal was limited to only the campus and surrounding neighborhoods of northeastern Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. NPR affiliation Charlotte was one of the largest markets in the South without an NPR member station until South Carolina Educational Radio outlet WPRV (now WNSC-FM) launched from a transmitter at Rock Hill on January 3, 1978. It initially broadcasting instructional programs during the day before beginning a full-time