WNIJ (89.5 FM) is a

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licensed to DeKalb, Illinois. The station is owned by

Northern Illinois University Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public research university in DeKalb, Illinois. It was founded as Northern Illinois State Normal School on May 22, 1895, by Illinois Governor John P. Altgeld as part of an expansion of the state's system ...

, and is the flagship of

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network, airing

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news and

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) music programming.

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Northern Public Radio
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