WITF-FM
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| City | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
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| Broadcast area | South Central Pennsylvania |
| Branding | Live inspired |
| Slogan | Your home for NPR News and All Things Regional |
| Frequency | 89.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Translator(s) | See § Simulcast and translator |
| Repeater(s) | See § Simulcast and translator |
| First air date | April 1, 1971 |
| Format | NPR |
| ERP | 5,900 watts |
| HAAT | 415 meters (1,362 ft) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 73084 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°20′44.0″N 76°52′7.0″W / 40.345556°N 76.868611°W (NAD27) |
| Callsign meaning | Where It's Top Flight |
| Owner | WITF, Inc. |
| Sister stations | WITF-TV |
| Website | www |
WITF-FM (89.5 FM) is a non-commercial, public FM radio station licensed to serve Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by WITF, Inc., and broadcasts NPR talk and news programming. It is a sister station to the area's PBS member station, WITF-TV. Both stations are based at the Public Media Center in Swatara Township (with a Harrisburg mailing address), and broadcast from a shared tower located on Blue Mountain in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County.
WITF-FM signed on for the first time on April 1, 1971, becoming the first station in central Pennsylvania to broadcast a classical music format.
The station originally broadcast from studios at Hershey Middle School, moving to Locust Lane in Harrisburg in 1982. On July 22, 2005, WITF began construction on its 75,000 square foot Public Media Center in Swatara Township. Staff would begin moving into the facility on November 27, 2006.
After airing a mix of classical music and NPR programming for much of its history, the station dropped all classical music programming on June 25, 2012, replacing it with a news and information format consisting of syndicated programs from NPR and other providers, along with local news and cultural arts reporting by WITF staff. WITF has its own Multimedia News Department, which provides local and regional news coverage.
The station began simulcasting its programming on 93.3 WYPM on January 9, 2009. WITF programming was now available on a local FM station to listeners in the Chambersburg, Pennsylvania area.
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