WRJA-FM (88.1 FM) is a non-commercial

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-formatted

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located in

Sumter, South Carolina Sumter ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Sumter County, South Carolina, United States. Known as the Sumter Metropolitan Statistical Area, the namesake county adjoins Clarendon and Lee to form the core of Sumter-Lee-Clarendon Tri-county (o ...

, United States, that covers both Columbia and

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. The station is the flagship of the statewide "NPR News network" from

South Carolina Public Radio South Carolina Public Radio (SCPR) is the National Public Radio member network serving the state of South Carolina. It is operated by the South Carolina Educational Television Commission, an agency of the South Carolina state government. It is ...

Station history

The station signed on as WMPR on August 25, 1975, as part of the South Carolina Educational Radio Network, featuring programming from SCERN as well as

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(NPR). It became WRJA-FM in 1980. In 2001, the station (along with WJWJ-FM Beaufort/Charleston and WHMC Conway/Myrtle Beach) began a separate program schedule from the rest of the SCERN stations, with a format of NPR news, talk and information.

References

External links

South Carolina Public Radio Network website
* South Carolina Educational Television RJA-FM Radio stations established in 1975 NPR member stations {{SouthCarolina-radio-station-stub