Interlochen Public Radio

IPR Music Radio
City Interlochen, Michigan
Broadcast area WIAA: Cadillac-Traverse City
WIAB: Mackinaw City-St. Ignace
WICV: Petoskey
Format Public radio
Affiliations NPR
Owner Interlochen Center for the Arts
Website http://www.interlochen.org/ipr/

Interlochen Public Radio, established in 1963, is a network of public radio stations in Northern Michigan. It broadcasts classical music and news on five stations in northwest lower Michigan. It is operated by the Interlochen Center for the Arts, with studios on the center's campus in Interlochen, Michigan; just outside Traverse City. It is an affiliate of National Public Radio and Public Radio International.

At one point early in the 2000s, IPR led the nation in annual listener support.[1] This was all the more remarkable because it is the second-smallest NPR member in Michigan, and one of the smallest in the entire NPR system.

History

Joseph E. Maddy, founder of the National Music Camp (now the Interlochen Center for the Arts), had long wanted to bring a fine arts radio station to Northern Michigan. In 1963, WIAA signed on for the first time. Originally broadcasting eight hours per day, it grew enough within a decade to become a charter member of NPR. Interlochen Public Radio became a network in 1989 with the addition of WICV in 1989.

In 2000, Interlochen signed on WICA at 91.5, and by 2001 all NPR news and talk programming had moved there. However, WICA does not have nearly the signal strength of WIAA. As a result, Cadillac, the second-largest city in IPR's service area, has no access to NPR talk programming even after the addition of two repeaters for WICA since the turn of the millennium.

Stations

Since 2000, IPR has operated a two-service network. "Classical IPR" (formerly known as "IPR Music Radio") provides classical music and hourly NPR news updates for three stations. News and talk programming from NPR and other sources is heard on three stations, branded as "IPR News Radio".

Classical IPR stations

Call sign Frequency
(MHz)
City of license ERP
W
Class FCC info
WIAA 88.7 Interlochen, Michigan 100,000 C WIAA FCC
WIAB 88.5 Mackinaw City, Michigan 20,000 C2 WIAB FCC
WICV 100.9 East Jordan, Michigan 2,800 A WICV FCC

IPR News Radio stations

Call sign Frequency
(MHz)
City of license ERP
W
Class FCC info
WHBP 90.1 Harbor Springs, Michigan 1,200 C3 WHBP FCC
WICA 91.5 Traverse City, Michigan 4,000 C3 WICA FCC
WLMN 89.7 Manistee, Michigan 15,000 C3 WLMN FCC

References

  1. Archive of IPR Website

Sources

External links

http://www.interlochen.org/ipr/

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