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WRKF Public Radio is one of the country's most successful community-based public radio stations, based on share of local audience, and began broadcasting in January of 1980 as a classical station. Supported largely by private memberships and corporate underwriting, WRKF strives to balance diverse programming that answers to popular demand as it relates to the future growth of listenership and revenue to the station. Nearly 55,000 listeners tune in each week to WRKF's programming, which includes primarily news and information from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays and classical music from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. Weekend programming includes entertainment, humor, classical music and news programming. In addition to award-winning NPR News, A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal, Bob Edwards Weekend and other national programming, WRKF airs about a dozen locally produced shows—topics range from statewide politics and business to gardening, cooking, classical and folk music... What is NPR? NPR (National Public Radio) is a privately supported, not-for-profit membership organization, working in partnership with more than 800 independently operated, noncommercial public radio stations. Today more than 30 million people listen to public radio stations every week, up from about 2 million in the early 1980s. This upward listener trend in the last two decades is in large part attributable to the astounding growth of NPR News, a national service anchored by hourly newscasts and two signature award-winning news magazines Morning Edition and All Things Considered. These programs are currently the second and third most listened-to radio programs in America. Our Mission Statement WRKF strives to entertain and inform its audience through local, national and international news and cultural programming. Our Coverage Area WRKF is the only news, information and classical music station based in Baton Rouge that covers a large broadcast area including most of south central Louisiana. WRKF's primary signal (60-100 dBu) effectively reaches a 50-mile radius around Baton Rouge, with a secondary signal (54 dBu) extending 60 miles or so, depending upon terrain. That's why you hear WRKF in Lafayette, Hammond, Ponchatoula, New Iberia, Morgan City, Opelousas, south of LaPlace and even in Woodville, MS. The WRKF transmitter broadcasts at 28,000 watts. WRKF is now broadcasting in HD. |
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