WPEA is a non-commercial educational radio station

Radio station

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 licensed to serve Exeter, New Hampshire

Exeter, New Hampshire

Exeter is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The town's population was 14,306 at the 2010 census. Exeter was the county seat until 1997, when county offices were moved to neighboring Brentwood...

. The station is owned by the Trustees of the Phillips Exeter Academy. It airs a Variety

Variety (radio)

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 format. The WPEA studios are located in the Phelps Academy Center on the campus of the Phillips Exeter Academy.

WPEA is the oldest continuously operated high school radio

High school radio

High school radio within the United States is almost as old as radio broadcasting itself. Simply defined as a radio station, with its studios located at a high school and usually operated by its students with faculty supervision, stations fitting this description existed in the mid-1920s...

 station in the United States. The station was assigned the WPEA call letters by the Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission

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