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alp227

(32,018 posts)
Thu Aug 30, 2012, 11:23 PM Aug 2012

Some NPR stations playing classical or jazz instead of the convention

Wisconsin: WPR News/Classical Network (convention coverage is on WPR Ideas instead. I thought WPR News was the main NPR affiliate of Wisconsin this would carry the convention.)
New Orleans: WWNO
Logan, Utah: KUSU
Phoenix: KJZZ
Syracuse: WCNY
Murray, KY: WKMS

Found this out while searching the tunein app...interesting. Basically these stations play Morning Edition and All Things Considered thus serve as the main public radio locally. I know next week is OUR turn.for political convention, so this is my guide for those living in these listed areas where you can't hear the DNC on NPR.

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Some NPR stations playing classical or jazz instead of the convention (Original Post) alp227 Aug 2012 OP
Some NPR stations concentrate more on music LTR Aug 2012 #1
Thing is, in some places the lone NPR station didn't pre-empt the music for the convention. alp227 Aug 2012 #2

LTR

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1. Some NPR stations concentrate more on music
Thu Aug 30, 2012, 11:38 PM
Aug 2012

Often, they have sister stations (or another NPR station in the market) that airs news programming. Most likely, it'll be this way for the DNC.

alp227

(32,018 posts)
2. Thing is, in some places the lone NPR station didn't pre-empt the music for the convention.
Thu Aug 30, 2012, 11:49 PM
Aug 2012

I found that to be the case in New Orleans/WWNO, Phoenix/KJZZ, Logan, UT/KUSU, and Murray, KY/WKMS. However, some of these places could hear the convention thru satellites of out-of-market stations. Logan, UT has a satellite of Salt Lake City's KUER (a service of the University of Utah at SLC). And Syracuse has a satellite of Oswego's WRVO (like KUER a station based in a college, specifically SUNY Oswego). But it's weird to know that New Orleans can't hear the national conventions thru the local NPR station if on the radio, only on commercial (and most likely right wing) news/talk stations. And to correct myself, it was actually WXXI-AM that is the NPR station in Rochester, WXXI-FM is an all-classical station.

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