I was just wondering if there were any NPR affiliates that are not in your market, but you can hear them and do they offer different sets of programming? I've been listening to WGBH a lot as I like the local aspect.
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NPR affiliates not in your market but you can hear them?
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From Knoxville, home of WUOT, which runs Morning Edition and All Things Considered but Classical the rest of the day; it's sometimes possible to get sister WUTC, Chattanooga, which carries the above but is mostly NPR News/talk but also has music shows. I actually wish we had WUTC's programming mix here.
So my home market is Nashville, TN and we have WPLN.
Bowling Green, KY is just over the state line and WKYU is very audible down here, especially on a car radio.
I've also received these NPR affiliates during days when the atmosphere is right and I'm on my front porch:
WUOT Knoxville, TN
WUTC Chattanooga, TN
WKMS Murray, KY
WDCL Somerset, KY
WUKY Lexington, KY (my furthest catch)
WUOT airs the more popular NPR/PRI/PRX shows with classical music taking up a bulk of the schedule and until about four or five years ago, WKYU did the same thing and about a decade or so ago, WPLN did the same thing. WKYU's classical lineup went to an FM translator, Nashville Public Radio bought out Vanderbilt's campus station and put classical there, but Nashville Public Radio has decided to do an Americana type thing with that frequency (hasn't happened yet) and park the classical lineup on an HD subchannel.
All the other affiliates I mentioned offer pretty much the same programming WPLN now has, give or take a show or two, but airs everything at different times except for Morning/Weekend Edition and All Things Considered. All the stations have websites, so you can look everything up yourself.
Very interesting! My home market is Dallas/Ft Worth, but I grew up on the Wisconsin/Illinois state line. Back home I was able to hear WHAD (WPR ideas network, Milwaukee), WNIU (Classical 90.5, Dekalb (Northern Illinois University and WNIJ (NPR). The home station was WBEZ Chicago.
I'm midway between Hartford and New Haven. WNPR 90.5 (news and talk) is my "home" NPR station, but I can also hear WFCR 88.5 (classical/jazz, plus Morning Edition and All Things Considered) from the Springfield, Mass., area, and WLIW 88.3 (eclectic musical mix, plus ME and ATC) from eastern Long Island.
They all simulcast. I can hear KFAE-89.1 Richland and KNWY-90.3 Yakima in Ellensburg at all times, with NWPB. However in some small pockets I can get a very weak 90.9 KRBM Pendleton OR (OPB), and it's way stronger up on higher hills. Sometimes KRBM mixes with another NWPB, KVTI Tacoma.
I have four local NPR stations from three outfits:
88.7 WIAA (Interlochen Public Radio; classical with some other specialty music programs on weekends)
89.7 WLMN (Interlochen Public Radio; news/talk [Morning Edition, All Things Considered, etc.])
90.3 WBLV (Blue Lake Public Radio; classical and jazz with some news/talk)
94.3 WCMV (CMU Public Radio; classical, news/talk, and some specialty music programs)
Two more NPR services (from the same outfit) can be commonly heard:
88.1 WHID and 90.7 WHAD (Wisconsin Public Radio; news/talk with a Wisconsin focus)
89.3 WPNE (Wisconsin Public Radio; mostly classical but also airs Morning Edition and All Things Considered)
Go about 15-20 miles to the south and you lose WCMV, but pick up 95.3 WGVS (WGVU; news/talk with some jazz)
88.7 WIAA (Interlochen Public Radio; classical with some other specialty music programs on weekends)
89.7 WLMN (Interlochen Public Radio; news/talk [Morning Edition, All Things Considered, etc.])
90.3 WBLV (Blue Lake Public Radio; classical and jazz with some news/talk)
94.3 WCMV (CMU Public Radio; classical, news/talk, and some specialty music programs)
Two more NPR services (from the same outfit) can be commonly heard:
88.1 WHID and 90.7 WHAD (Wisconsin Public Radio; news/talk with a Wisconsin focus)
89.3 WPNE (Wisconsin Public Radio; mostly classical but also airs Morning Edition and All Things Considered)
Go about 15-20 miles to the south and you lose WCMV, but pick up 95.3 WGVS (WGVU; news/talk with some jazz)
WILL 580 is also audible on the south side of Chicago.
I'm very familiar with those as my aunt and uncle have a summer home in Pentwater, but when were WLMN and WCMV implemented? I never heard those sadly.
I'm technically in the Charlotte market (WFAE) but WFDD's tower in the Greensboro area is close enough to me and high enough that it actually has the clearer signal.
I've listened to WUNC (Raleigh) when WFAE and WFDD didn't have what I wanted due to fundraising. I've also picked up WVTF (Roanoke) in the car.
All of these are talk stations. WFDD may still have some classical music at night but they've moved classical to HD. WFAE has jazz on HD.
WNSC is in the Charlotte market but across the line in South Carolina and I've had some trouble with it. It doesn't make any difference since they switched from jazz.
I've listened to WUNC (Raleigh) when WFAE and WFDD didn't have what I wanted due to fundraising. I've also picked up WVTF (Roanoke) in the car.
All of these are talk stations. WFDD may still have some classical music at night but they've moved classical to HD. WFAE has jazz on HD.
WNSC is in the Charlotte market but across the line in South Carolina and I've had some trouble with it. It doesn't make any difference since they switched from jazz.
Washington DC and Baltimore are close enough it's easy to get both WAMU and WYPR. If you live east of DC you may also get WSCL which serves Maryland's eastern shore/southern Delaware. There's also WETA, WTMD and WEAA in these markets that are NPR affiliates.
WAMU - pretty much NPR news/talk, some specialty music programming on weekends
WYPR - also pretty much NPR news/talk with jazz in the evenings
WSCL - classical w/ Morning Edition
WETA - classical w/ PBS Newshour at 7
WTMD - AAA owned by Towson University
WEAA - jazz and minority programming, owned by Morgan State University
WAMU - pretty much NPR news/talk, some specialty music programming on weekends
WYPR - also pretty much NPR news/talk with jazz in the evenings
WSCL - classical w/ Morning Edition
WETA - classical w/ PBS Newshour at 7
WTMD - AAA owned by Towson University
WEAA - jazz and minority programming, owned by Morgan State University
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