High school station WNAS celebrates 65 years

Now, broadcasting at 2,850 watts on stereo FM, WNAS reaches beyond the county lines and celebrated its 65-year history as the first high school radio station in the history of the United States on Wednesday, the News and Tribune reported.

The station hosted an open house for alumni, giving graduates from the first shows guided tours of today’s facility by the school’s current sound engineers, camera operators and disc jockeys. “It’s unreal,” Joe Marguet, a member of the staff in the 1949-50 school year said.

“Our whole studio was as big as (the television studio), that’s including the classroom and everything. This was the first high school radio station in the country. To see what it’s grown into, why jeez, it’s amazing.”

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