WERN (88.7 FM) is a
radio station licensed to
Madison, Wisconsin. The station is part of
Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR), and is the flagship of WPR's "NPR News and Classical Network", consisting of
classical music
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and news and talk programming.
The station first signed on in 1947, as the first FM station in what would become Wisconsin Public Radio. It was originally known as WHA-FM, after its AM sister,
WHA; it became WERN in 1974.
Since Ideas Network flagship WHA must reduce its power to an all-but-unlistenable level at night, WERN airs a simulcast of the Ideas Network on its HD3 channel. This is used to feed a low-powered translator at 90.9 FM for non-HD Radio listeners.
[http://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=95 HD Radio Guide for Madison, Wisconsin] WERN's position on the low end of the FM dial, relatively high transmitter location and power allow for a large coverage area which affords WPR's News/Classical network a strong signal across Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois including well into the
Rockford area and
Metro Milwaukee.
See also
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Wisconsin Public Radio
References
External links
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Wisconsin Public Radio
Classical music radio stations in the United States
NPR member stations
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