public radio
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station broadcasting on 89.1 MHz in
Lowell, Indiana
Lowell is a town in West Creek and Cedar Creek townships, Lake County, Indiana, United States. The population was 9,276 at the 2010 census.
History
Lowell was platted in 1853. It was named after Lowell, Massachusetts.
The James Brannon House, ...
and serving
Northwest Indiana
Northwest Indiana, nicknamed The Region after the Calumet Region, comprises Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton and Jasper counties in Indiana. This region neighbors Lake Michigan and is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. According to the 2020 Ce ...
. The station is owned and operated by Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting, Inc., which also owns
PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcasting, public broadcaster and Non-commercial activity, non-commercial, Terrestrial television, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly fu ...
member station
WYIN
WYIN (channel 56), branded on-air as Lakeshore PBS, is a secondary PBS member television station licensed to Gary, Indiana, United States, serving the Chicago area. It is owned by Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting, Inc., as a sister station t ...
(channel 56), serving as an alternative to
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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WBEZ
WBEZ (91.5 FM) – branded ''WBEZ 91.5'' – is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to serve Chicago, Illinois, and primarily serving the Chicago metropolitan area. Financed by corporate underwriting, government funding and lis ...
in the
Chicago market
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's eastern reaches. WLPR broadcasts from the WZVN tower on SR-55, just north of SR-2.
History
The station began broadcasting in 2006, and held the call sign WWLO. It was owned by
American Family Association
The American Family Association (AFA) is a Christian fundamentalist 501(c)(3) organization based in the United States.
and was an affiliate of
American Family Radio
American Family Radio (AFR) is a network of more than 180 radio stations broadcasting Christian Conservative Christianity, Christian-oriented programming to over 30 states. In January 2009, the station was sold to Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting, Inc. for $1,050,000. On January 16, 2009, its call sign was changed to WLPR-FM and it adopted a
public radio
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format, with programming from
NPR
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