Transmitters and Programming
The network consists of three stations: WUNC, broadcasting from Chapel Hill on 91.5 FM; WRQM, from Rocky Mount on 90.9; and WUND-FM, from Manteo on 88.9.
All three stations were referred to simply as "WUNC" until 2005. The stations are now called "North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC", ostensibly to allow transition time between the two names. The call letters of the other stations are identified only during required station IDs at the start of each hour.
WUNC is the flagship NPR station for the Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill). In addition, its 100,000-watt signal covers much of the eastern portion of the Piedmont Triad, including Greensboro and High Point. This is because its transmitter is located on Terrell's Mountain in Chatham County, roughly halfway between Raleigh and Greensboro. WRQM serves the far eastern portion of the Triangle market, while WUND serves northeastern North Carolina and the Outer Banks. Combined, the three stations reach just over half of the state's population.
Aside from Back Porch Music, North Carolina Public Radio also produces The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon, a nationally-syndicated program first broadcast on WUNC in the early 1980s; and The State of Things, a regionally-syndicated local affairs show. The network began offering podcasts for The State of Things and other locally-produced news stories in September 2005.
North Carolina Public Radio's main studios are located in Chapel Hill near the Friday Center; in 2005, a second broadcast facility was opened in Durham's American Tobacco Historic District. On October 17, 2005, The State of Things began production at the new Durham location. Other programs continue production in the Chapel Hill studios.
Dick Gordon, former host of WBUR's The Connection, began hosting a new interview show called The Story with Dick Gordon on February 16, 2006. The News and Observer has reported that North Carolina Public Radio pays Gordon a salary of $210,000 a year, making him better paid than NPR luminary Terry Gross and many other national hosts in public radio.
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