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WOSA – branded Classical 101fm – is a non-commercial educational classical music radio station licensed to Grove City, Ohio. Owned by the Ohio State University under licensee "WOSU Public Media," the station serves Columbus, Ohio and much of the surrounding Columbus metro area, extending its reach into Mansfield, Marion and Southern Ohio with four full-power repeaters. The WOSA studios are located at the Fawcett Center on the Ohio State University campus, while the station transmitter resides off of Borror Road in Lockbourne. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WOSA is available online. It is one of a few non-commercial stations in the United States to broadcast outside of its recommended frequency range (88-92 MHz).
WHYY-FM is a public FM radio station licensed to serve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its broadcast tower is located in the city's Roxborough neighborhood at while its studios and offices are located on Independence Mall in Center City, Philadelphia. The station, owned by WHYY, Inc., is a charter member of National Public Radio (NPR) and contributes several programs to the national network.
KUHF is a public radio station serving Greater Houston metropolitan area. It broadcasts on a frequency of 88.7 megahertz on the FM dial. The station is owned by and licensed to the University of Houston System, and is operated by Houston Public Media. KUHF is housed in the Melcher Center for Public Broadcasting, along with KUHT, on the campus of the University of Houston. Local productions include The Engines of Our Ingenuity.
KUSC is a listener-supported classical music radio station broadcasting from downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. KUSC is owned and operated by the University of Southern California, which also operates student-run Internet station KXSC (AM) and San Francisco's classical station KDFC. It is the largest non-profit classical music station in the country and the only classical radio station in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
Michigan Radio is a network of three FM public radio stations in the southern Lower Peninsula of Michigan operated by the University of Michigan through its broadcasting arm, Michigan Public Media. The network is a founding member of National Public Radio and an affiliate of Public Radio International, American Public Media, and BBC World Service. Its main studio is located in Ann Arbor, with satellite studios in Flint and offices in Grand Rapids. It currently airs news and talk, which it has since July 1, 1996.
WRIU is a non-commercial radio station broadcasting a college radio format. Licensed to Kingston, Rhode Island, United States, the station serves the greater Rhode Island area. The station is owned by University of Rhode Island. The broadcast area reaches almost all of Rhode Island, and portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Long Island. WRIU began broadcasting on February 16, 1964 on 91.1 Mc. with a power of 10 watts.
WMOT is a public radio station serving the metropolitan Nashville, Tennessee market. Licensed to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, it is owned by the Middle Tennessee State University, located in nearby Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and it broadcasts an Americana-based format branded as Roots Radio
WPLN-FM, is a National Public Radio-affiliated station in Nashville, Tennessee. Since June 2011, the station has employed exclusively a news and talk format; until then, the station carried at least some classical music. The station maintains studios on Mainstream Drive north of downtown Nashville, studios that some consider among the finest radio production facilities in the U.S.
WPLN is a National Public Radio-affiliated radio station licensed to Madison, Tennessee. The station serves the Nashville, Tennessee, area along with sister station WPLN-FM. WPLN is an effort by the directors of Nashville Public Radio to find a place to program such NPR features as The Diane Rehm Show and similar fare that have a definite audience but a lesser one than public radio standbys such as NPR's All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation and Morning Edition and American Public Media's A Prairie Home Companion. These are programmed on WPLN-FM, 90.3 MHz, while the alternative programs are aired on the AM. A few features are aired by both at different times.
WRVU is a student-run college radio station associated with, but not operated by, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. It broadcasts via streaming radio, and from the 1970s to 2014, it was also broadcast on licensed radio stations in Nashville. The station is operated as a division of Vanderbilt Student Communications (VSC), an independent non-profit affiliated with the university to oversee student media.VSC is subsidized by a student activity fee, charged to each Vanderbilt student's tuition bill every semester.
WMRA is a Public Radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Harrisonburg, Virginia. It is the NPR member station for the central Shenandoah Valley. Combined with its full-power repeaters and low-power translators, it serves much of west-central Virginia from Winchester to Lexington as well as the Charlottesville area. WMRA is owned and operated by James Madison University.
KCUR-FM 89.3 is the flagship NPR station in Kansas City, Missouri and broadcast over the entire Kansas City metropolitan area. It is a service of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and broadcasts at 89.3 MHz with an ERP of 100,000 watts and covers a 90-mile radius in Northwestern Missouri and Northeastern Kansas.
WOSX is a non-commercial, 300-watt college radio station registered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It is currently owned and operated by The Ohio State University and licensed to serve Granville, Ohio, United States.
KWJC is a classical music station operated by the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The station covers much of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area.
WHQR is the National Public Radio (NPR) member station for Southeastern North Carolina and Myrtle Beach, broadcasting on the FM band 91.3 MHz. Based in Wilmington and operated by Friends of Public Radio, Inc.. It airs NPR, American Public Media, Public Radio International, and BBC programming as well as classical, jazz and adult album alternative music. WHQR hosts concerts and events in their gallery space as well as live-on-the air music with the original Soup to Nuts Live program.
KBIA, is a National Public Radio-member station in Columbia, Missouri. It carries regional news coverage, locally produced news shows, original talk shows, as well as NPR news programs including All Things Considered and Morning Edition.
KMUC is a radio station broadcasting a classical music format. Licensed to Columbia, Missouri, United States, the station is currently owned by the University of Missouri. In November 2014, original owner Stephens College announced it would sell the then-KWWC-FM to the University of Missouri, which already owned NPR member station KBIA (91.3). Once the sale was completed, the classical music format heard on KBIA during the daytime was moved to 90.5, while the 91.3 signal would have a news/talk/information format similar to sister stations KWMU in St. Louis and KCUR-FM in Kansas City. The call letters were also to be changed to KMUC. Stephens plans to keep KWWC as an internet-only station. The program Mizzou Music runs weekly featuring interviews and performances by faculty and students of the University of Missouri School of Music.
KXNG is a non-commercial FM radio station in Houston, Texas It is owned by the KSBJ Educational Foundation and it airs a youthful Christian radio format combining Christian hip hop and Christian rock music. Its sister station, 89.3 KSBJ, concentrates on Christian contemporary music, aimed at listeners in their 30s and 40s. The studios and offices are on Treble Drive in Humble, Texas, near Bush Intercontinental Airport.
WXNA-LP is a community-oriented 501c3 low-powered FM radio station that is licensed to and located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The freeform formatted station operates with an effective radiated power of 100 watts. The station’s studio is located within a building that also houses Grimey's New and Preloved Music and The Basement at 1604 Eighth Avenue South in downtown Nashville. WXNA was voted "Best Radio Station" by the readers of the Nashville Scene in the 2017 "Best of Nashville" issue.
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