Texas Public Radio
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| Broadcast area | San Antonio, the Texas Hill Country, and Snyder, Texas |
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| Branding | Texas Public Radio |
| Slogan | Hear Yourself Think |
| Format |
KSTX, KTPR, KTPD, KCTI and KVHL: News/talk KPAC: Classical music KTXI: News/talk/classical music |
| ERP |
KSTX: 72,000 watts KPAC: 69,000 watts KTXI: 50,000 watts KTPR: 19,000 KVHL: 1,500 watts |
| HAAT |
KSTX: 240 meters KPAC: 240 meters KTXI: 138 meters KTPR: 139 meters |
| Class |
KSTX: C1 KPAC: C1 KTXI: C2 KCTI: C |
| Facility ID |
KSTX: 65334 KPAC: 65335 KTXI: 77699 KCTI: 24651 |
| Callsign meaning |
KSTX: San Antonio, TeXas KPAC: Public ACcess KTXI: TeXas Ingram KTPR: Texas Public Radio KCTI: Cradle Texas Independence |
| Affiliations | National Public Radio |
| Owner | Texas Public Radio |
| Webcast | Listen Live PLS |
| Website | http://www.tpr.org |
Texas Public Radio, or TPR is the on-air name for a group of public radio stations serving south central Texas - including San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country - and the Big Country region of West Central Texas. All are affiliated with National Public Radio.
The group consists of five stations on the lower end of the FM dial: all-news station KSTX (89.1 MHz, San Antonio), all-classical music KPAC (88.3 MHz, San Antonio), News radio|news/classical KTXI (90.1 MHz, Ingram; serving the Hill Country), all-news KTPR (89.9 MHz, Snyder; serving the Big Country), all-news KVHL (91.7 MHz, Llano; serving the Highland Lakes), all-news KTPD (89.3 MHz, Del Rio), and all-news KCTI (1450 AM, Gonzales; serving the I-10 corridor).
KPAC, the oldest station in the group, signed on for the first time on November 7, 1982 as the first NPR station in the San Antonio area. It was owned by the Classical Broadcasting Society of San Antonio. Before 1982, San Antonio was the largest city in Texas, as well as one of the largest in the nation, without a clear signal from an NPR station.
As San Antonio's growth exploded during the 1980s, many of the city's new residents wanted more choices in NPR programming. A group called San Antonio Community Radio had won a construction permit for the second public radio frequency in San Antonio in 1981, but hadn't been able to get on the air. To solve this problem, the Classical Broadcasting Society and San Antonio Community Radio merged in the summer of 1988 to form Texas Public Radio. The new group was able to sign on KSTX for the first time on October 31, 1988. The new station picked up all of KPAC's NPR news programming, allowing KPAC to concentrate solely on classical music.
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