WGUC-FM

WGUC

City	Cincinnati, Ohio
Broadcast area	Cincinnati, Ohio
Frequency	90.9 MHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date	September 21, 1960
Format	Classical HD2: Jazz
ERP	18,500 watts
HAAT	209.2 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	6126
Owner	Cincinnati Public Radio, Inc.
Webcast	WGUC Webstream WGUC-HD2 Webstream
Website	wguc.org

WGUC is a public radio station serving Cincinnati, Ohio. It is owned by Cincinnati Public Radio. It broadcasts at 90.9 FM and features classical music. WGUC also has HD Radio capability and broadcasts jazz on WGUC-2. When Cincinnati Public Radio purchased Xavier University's "X-Star Network" (a group of stations headed by WVXU-FM) in 2005, WGUC moved its National Public Radio news and talk programming, including All Things Considered, which had aired on WGUC since the 1970s, to WVXU. The only NPR-produced show still airing on WGUC is the youth classical performance program From the Top, while the news and information programming on WVXU has been expanded from previously. WGUC and WVXU share a building with WCET-TV in central Cincinnati.

The station was originally licensed to the University of Cincinnati, broadcasting mostly classical music and All Things Considered. However, the creation of additional NPR programming in the 1980s created the need for an additional NPR outlet in Cincinnati, at which time WVXU (then licensed to Xavier University) became a member of NPR. While the two stations together provided most of the NPR programs available to a single market, the two NPR daily flagship newsmagazines aired separately; specifically, WVXU carried Morning Edition, while WGUC carried All Things Considered. With both stations now under the same licensee, program duplication, sometimes a problem in markets with more than one public radio station, could be eliminated. This means that WGUC broadcasts almost exclusively classical music, while WVXU carries news and information programming, including both NPR flagship newsmagazines.

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