Connecticut Public Radio

WNPR/WPKT/WEDW-FM/WRLI-FM

City of license	WNPR: Meriden, Connecticut WPKT: Norwich, Connecticut WEDW-FM: Stamford, Connecticut WRLI-FM: Southampton, New York
Broadcast area	Connecticut, eastern Long Island
Branding	WNPR/Connecticut Public Radio
Frequency	WNPR: 90.5 MHz WPKT: 89.1 MHz WEDW-FM: 88.5 MHz WRLI-FM: 91.3 MHz
Translator(s)	99.5 W258AC (Storrs)
Format	Public radio
ERP	WNPR: 18,500 watts (horiz.); 13,000 watts (vert.) WPKT: 5,100 watts WEDW-FM: 2,000 watts (horiz.); 1,800 watts (vert.) WRLI-FM: 10,000 watts
HAAT	WNPR: 251 meters (823 ft) (horiz.) 249 meters (817 ft) (vert.) WPKT: 180 meters (590 ft) (horiz.) WEDW-FM: 92 meters (302 ft) WRLI-FM: 95 meters (312 ft)
Class	WNPR: B WPKT: B1 WEDW-FM: A WRLI-FM: B1
Facility ID	WNPR: 13627 WPKT: 13618 WEDW-FM: 13619 WRLI-FM: 13598
Callsign meaning	WNPR: National Public Radio WPKT: Paul k Taft, former CPBN Head WEDW-FM: (see Connecticut Public Television) WRLI-FM: Radio Long Island
Former callsigns	WNPR: WPKT (until 2011) WPKT: WNPR (until 2011)
Affiliations	National Public Radio
Owner	Connecticut Public Broadcasting
Webcast	Listen Live M3U DTFX
Website	cpbn.org

Connecticut Public Radio is a network of public radio stations in the state of Connecticut, affiliated with National Public Radio (NPR). It is owned by Connecticut Public Broadcasting, who also owns Connecticut Public Television. Together, the television and radio networks make up the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network.

It is composed of four stations located on the FM band, broadcasting the same programming at all times:

• WNPR Meriden/Hartford/New Haven (90.5 MHz)
• WPKT Norwich/New London (89.1 MHz)
• WEDW-FM Stamford/Greenwich (88.5 MHz)
• WRLI-FM Southampton, New York (91.3 MHz)

There is also one translator to relay programming on the four stations:

Translators of CPR

Callsign	MHz	City of license	Power (W)	Class	Additional Information
W258AC	99.5	Storrs, Connecticut	10	D	FCC

Additionally, WECS, Eastern Connecticut State University's campus station, simulcasts the network's feeds of Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Car Talk.

The headquarters of WNPR and CPTV in Hartford, Connecticut

The stations air primarily news and talk from NPR. It promotes itself on-air as "WNPR/Connecticut Public Radio." It is headquartered with CPTV in Hartford, and operates an additional studio in New Haven.

The network's first station, WPBH in Meriden, signed on in June 1978. CPBI originally wanted the WNPR calls, but the FCC turned it down due to objections from WPLR in New Haven, who claimed the calls sounded too similar. Previously, 90.5 had been used as a low-powered translator of WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts. WPBH's sign-on brought NPR programming to Hartford for the first time; it had been one of the largest cities in the nation without an NPR station. It became WPKT in 1984, after board chairman Homer Babbidge requested the FCC change the call letters to honor CPBN head Paul K. Taft.

WNPR in Norwich followed in 1981, WEDW-FM in Stamford in 1985 and WRLI-FM on Long Island in 1993.

On September 15, 2011, WPKT and WNPR swapped call letters. Although 90.5 has always been the main station, the network had been using WNPR as its on-air name since the 1980s.

External links

Connecticut portal

• Connecticut Public Radio Website
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WNPR
• Radio-Locator information on WNPR
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WNPR
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WPKT
• Radio-Locator information on WPKT
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WPKT
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WEDW
• Radio-Locator information on WEDW
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WEDW
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WRLI
• Radio-Locator information on WRLI
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WRLI
• Query the FCC's FM station database for W258AC
• Radio-Locator information on W258AC