Cincinnati Public Radio, Inc. is the

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holder for

WGUC WGUC (90.9 MHz) is a public FM radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is owned by Cincinnati Public Radio and has a classical music format. WGUC broadcasts using HD Radio technology and plays jazz on WGUC-HD2 and adult album alternative on WGUC- ...

(90.9) and

WVXU WVXU (91.7 FM) is a public radio station located in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is owned by Cincinnati Public Radio, which also operates station WGUC and WMUB. It airs public radio news and talk syndicated programming from National Public Radio, Ameri ...

(91.7), two FM radio stations broadcasting to the

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area with

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, news, information, and entertainment programming. The organization also operates FM radio station WMUB (88.5 M Hz) in

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. The company is an IRS

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led by a local Board of Directors and a professional staff conducting day-to-day business. The company was originally founded in 1994 as Cincinnati Classical Public Radio, which took over day-to-day operations of WGUC, then owned by the

University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College, it is the oldest institution of higher education in Cincinnati and has an annual enrollment of over 44,00 ...

. CCPR bought the WGUC license from UC in 2002. WGUC is Cincinnati's oldest and largest

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station, founded in 1960 for cultural and public affairs programming. Today, it broadcasts

24 hours a day. WVXU became a part of Cincinnati Public Radio on August 22, 2005. It broadcasts news and information programming, as well as national and international sources. On March 1, 2009, Cincinnati Public Radio took over operations of WMUB from

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. In addition to the three

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signals, the stations offer

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of their broadcasts via the web, via mobile apps allowing listening on

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s and

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s, and maintain a presence on the

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app.

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*{{official website, http://www.cinradio.org/ Non-profit organizations based in Cincinnati Mass media in Cincinnati Organizations established in 1994

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