WGTE-FM

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WGTE-FM
Broadcast area
Frequency 91.3 MHz
BrandingWGTE FM 91
Programming
Format Public Radio - Classical - News - Talk
Affiliations National Public Radio
Public Radio Exchange
American Public Media
Ownership
OwnerPublic Broadcasting Foundation of Northwestern Ohio
WGTE-TV
History
First air date
May 2, 1976
(49 years ago) (1976-05-02)
Call sign meaning
"Greater Toledo Education"
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 66287
Class B
ERP 13,500 watts
HAAT 289 meters (948 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 41°39′29″N83°25′55″W / 41.658°N 83.432°W / 41.658; -83.432
Repeater(s)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website www.wgte.org

WGTE-FM (91.3 MHz) is a non-commercial, listener-supported, public radio station in Toledo, Ohio, and is the sister station of Channel 30 WGTE-TV, Toledo's PBS network affiliate. WGTE-FM features classical music and jazz along with news and talk. It is a member of National Public Radio and also carries programs from other public radio networks. The studios and offices are on South Detroit Avenue.

Contents

WGTE-FM is a Class B station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 13,500 watts. The transmitter is on Corduroy Road at North Wynn Avenue in Oregon, Ohio. [2] Programming is simulcast on three other Ohio radio stations: WGBE (90.9 FM) in Bryan, WGDE (91.9 FM) in Defiance and WGLE (90.7 FM) in Lima. Several times each year, WGTE-FM holds on-air fundraisers to ask for listener support.

Programming

Most of the day, WGTE-FM airs classical music. But on weekdays, it breaks during morning drive time, middays and afternoons for news and information programs from NPR: Morning Edition, Here and Now, Marketplace and All Things Considered .

On weekends, it mixes music programs with one-hour weekly public radio shows: Snap Judgement, Milk Street Radio, Radiolab, This American Life, The Moth Radio Hour, Hidden Brain, Travel with Rick Steves, On The Media and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me . On Friday and Saturday evenings, the music switches to jazz. And on weekends, specialty music programs are heard: Hearts of Space, The Thistle and Shamrock, Pipedreams and during the season, The Metropolitan Opera .

History

WGTE-FM signed on the air on May 2, 1976. At first, its programming was classical music with six hours of jazz per week and hourly news updates. WGTE-FM is the only radio station in the area broadcasting classical music after WMHE-FM dropped the format a few years ago. [3] It also featured NPR's first weekday news program, All Things Considered.

When NPR began Morning Edition in 1979, that program was also heard on the weekday schedule. Gradually more news and talk programs from NPR and PRI were added, although unlike most other NPR affiliates, WGTE-FM continues to air a sizable number of classical music programs with some jazz music and other genres on weekends.

In 1981, WGLE-FM in Lima became the first simulcast station of WGTE-FM. WGBE-FM in Bryan was added in 1996 and WGDE-FM in Defiance signed on in 1999.

Repeaters

Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) HAAT Class Transmitter coordinatesFCC info
WGBE90.9 FM Bryan, Ohio 53733850120  m (394  ft)A 41°28′47″N84°35′50″W / 41.47972°N 84.59722°W / 41.47972; -84.59722 LMS
WGDE91.9 FM Defiance, Ohio 537136,00093 m (305 ft)A 41°17′41″N84°23′24″W / 41.29472°N 84.39000°W / 41.29472; -84.39000 LMS
WGLE90.7 FM Lima, Ohio 5371550,000128 m (420 ft)B 40°39′04″N84°06′33″W / 40.65111°N 84.10917°W / 40.65111; -84.10917 LMS

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WGTE-FM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/WGTE
  3. ↑ Dresser, Norman (April 18, 1976). "WGTE-FM Plans To Go On Air May 2". The Blade. Toledo, Ohio. pp. G1, G4 . Retrieved July 21, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
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