The NPR News and Classical Network primarily broadcasts classical music but carries news and information programs, including NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition as well as APM's Marketplace. A few Ideas Network stations in areas not served by this network carry the above programs in place of the master Ideas Network schedule.
The flagship station of the NPR News and Classical Network is WERN in Madison.
| Location | Frequency | Call sign | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashland | 104.7 FM | W284AN | Translator of WHSA |
| Brule (Superior) | 89.9 FM | WHSA | |
| Eau Claire | 89.7 FM | WUEC | |
| Elkhorn | 101.7 FM | W269BV | Translator of WGTD |
| Green Bay | 89.3 FM | WPNE | |
| Lake Geneva | 103.3 FM | W277BM | Translator of WGTD |
| Kenosha | 91.1 FM | WGTD | Affiliate owned by Gateway Technical College |
| La Crosse | 88.9 FM | WLSU | |
| Madison | 88.7 FM | WERN | |
| Menomonie | 90.7 FM | WVSS | |
| Platteville | 89.1 FM | WSSW | |
| Sister Bay | 89.7 FM | WHND | |
| Wausau | 90.9 FM | WHRM |
The HD2 Classical Network service is available through the HD Radio subchannel of at least one of the WPR stations serving each market and features music in HD Radio's CD-quality audio. Stations with HD-2 service include WERN, WHAD, WHWC, WHBM, WHRM, KUWS, WPNE, WHHI, WHLA, WHDI, and WHAA.
All three services are broadcast in real-time on the Internet through the Windows Media, Real, and streaming MP3 formats, with streaming WPR program archives available in Real to all visitors. Downloadable versions of WPR shows in MP3 are available, but restricted to certain downloading guidelines and timeframes.
The only HD-3 service in the WPR Network is on WHRM, with a full-time feed of the Ideas Network to serve the Wausau area, due to WLBL-FM being a time-share operation with Rhinelander's WXPR as WXPM.
Read more about this topic: Wisconsin Public Radio
Famous quotes containing the words news, classical and/or network:
“The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.”
—W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic. “Material Differences,” Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)
“How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.”
—Gérard De Nerval (1808–1855)