WYPR
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| Broadcast area | Baltimore, Maryland |
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| Branding | 88.1 WYPR |
| Slogan | 88.1 Your NPR News Station |
| Frequency | 88.1 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Repeater(s) | WYPF 88.1, Frederick WYPO 106.9, Ocean City |
| First air date | 1979 (originally carrier current 1945–1979) (as WJHU) |
| Format |
Public radio (News/Talk/Jazz) HD2: BBC World Service HD3: Classical |
| ERP | 15,500 watts |
| HAAT | 129.6 meters |
| Class | B1 |
| Facility ID | 65753 |
| Callsign meaning | We're Your Public Radio |
| Former callsigns | WJHU (1979–2002) |
| Owner | Your Public Radio Corp |
| Webcast |
WYPR Webstream WYPR-HD2 Webstream WYPR-HD3 Webstream |
| Website | wypr.org |
WYPR is a public radio station serving the Baltimore, Maryland metropolitan area. The station broadcasts on 88.1 MHz on the FM band. Its studio is in the Charles Village neighborhood of northern Baltimore, while its transmitter is westward in Park Heights. The station is simulcast in the Frederick and Hagerstown area on WYPF (88.1 FM) and in the Ocean City area on WYPO (106.9 FM). Surprisingly, the two stations on 88.1 are not synchronized. WYPF's sound is about 1/2 second behind WYPR, rendering WYPR almost unlistenable in some portions of Howard and Carroll counties.
WYPR is Baltimore's flagship National Public Radio member station, carrying content from NPR, American Public Media (the distribution arm of Minnesota Public Radio), Public Radio International and the BBC World Service (on HD2). WYPR also provides a 24-hour classical music format on its HD3 subchannel. In addition, WYPR produces several of its own shows, including the public affairs-focused programs Midday and On The Record, the award-winning, sonic-storytelling series Out of the Blocks as well as local news coverage and special newsroom series.
In 2015, the Baltimore Magazine Reader's Poll named WYPR the Best Radio Station in Baltimore.
The station signed on in 1979 as WJHU, a 10-watt student-run station owned by Johns Hopkins University. It took over from a carrier current station that had operated under the same calls on AM 830 since 1945. Originally a typical freeform college radio station, it boosted its power to 25,000 watts in 1985, allowing it at least secondary coverage of the entire Baltimore/Washington corridor. Soon after the power increase, Johns Hopkins converted the station into a full-time professional operation, allowing it to become Baltimore's NPR member station. It originally aired a mix of classical music and NPR programming, but on June 23, 1995, switched to a primarily news/talk format.
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