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Lehigh Valley Public Media lays off 50% of staff

Hope they hop off WLVR 91.3FM and give control back to Lehigh students. Never understood why we need multiple NPR stations in the same area. There's WDIY 88.1, WLVR 91.3, and a broadcast repeater of WVIA on 105.7.
 
tvk5195 said:
Hope they hop off WLVR 91.3FM and give control back to Lehigh students. Never understood why we need multiple NPR stations in the same area. There's WDIY 88.1, WLVR 91.3, and a broadcast repeater of WVIA on 105.7.
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And don't forget the WRTI translator on 97.1 and WHYY 90.9.
 
tvk5195 said:
Hope they hop off WLVR 91.3FM and give control back to Lehigh students.
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I doubt that's going to happen. Colleges don't have that kind of money anymore. Only a small number of students are interested, and it's not enough to justify the money. Meanwhile, the students still have a station on HD-2.
 
Lehigh Valley Public Media controls both channel 35 WPPT and 39 WLVT. Technically WPPT is licensed to Philadelphia but they both operate off the same tower near Allentown.

I noticed a few days ago, WPPT and WLVT's .2 subchannels are gone. WPPT's .2 was an alternate schedule of PBS shows. WLVT's .2 subchannel was Create. As you scroll, neither channel is available. WLVT does have a .3 channel airing France 24, an English-language news channel from Paris. Maybe the two .2 channels were axed in the budget cuts.
 
Gregg. said:
Lehigh Valley Public Media controls both channel 35 WPPT and 39 WLVT. Technically WPPT is licensed to Philadelphia but they both operate off the same tower near Allentown.

I noticed a few days ago, WPPT and WLVT's .2 subchannels are gone. WPPT's .2 was an alternate schedule of PBS shows. WLVT's .2 subchannel was Create. As you scroll, neither channel is available. WLVT does have a .3 channel airing France 24, an English-language news channel from Paris. Maybe the two .2 channels were axed in the budget cuts.
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As per the budget cuts, WLVT's subchannels were discontinued.
 
tvk5195 said:
Hope they hop off WLVR 91.3FM and give control back to Lehigh students. Never understood why we need multiple NPR stations in the same area. There's WDIY 88.1, WLVR 91.3, and a broadcast repeater of WVIA on 105.7.
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As I understand it, WLVR was the only fulltime NPR news/talk station in the area, and I'm not sure how well WHYY's signal is heard up there.
 
ted chittenden said:
As I understand it, WLVR was the only fulltime NPR news/talk station in the area, and I'm not sure how well WHYY's signal is heard up there.
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Exactly.

There weren't "multiple NPR stations" for any meaningful interpretation of that phrase. WRTI is classical by day, jazz at night and doesn't carry any long-form news or talk. WDIY is also primarily music, and WVIA is a block format that mixes the NPR news magazines with classical during the day and folk at night, and their local news focuses on NEPA, not the Lehigh Valley.

WHYY's signal doesn't reach into the core cities of the Lehigh Valley at all.

So the idea with WLVR, when times were better and money was more flush, was to provide a full-day NPR news and talk schedule with localized Lehigh Valley content, something the area really didn't have.
 


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