Public Radio Station WYPR Has Officially Acquired Indie Music Station WTMD

BALTIMORE (WJZ) – Baltimore’s NPR subordinate station, WYPR, has officially acquired indie euphony presumption WTMD from Towson University, the stations announced Wednesday.

Plans for the acquisition were initially announced successful May 2021. Under the arrangement, some stations volition run nether the umbrella of Your Public Radio, the acronym contained wrong WYPR’s telephone letters.

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The finalization of the woody comes connected Public Radio Music Day, an manufacture solemnisation of noncommercial stations that big on-air and online euphony events.

“It’s fitting that we observe Public Radio Music Day by officially welcoming WTMD — its listeners and squad — into the Your Public Radio family,” said LaFontaine E. Oliver, president and wide manager. “As we hole for our 20th day successful 2022, we are arsenic committed arsenic ever to the community, providing section quality and expanded music, arts and taste programming. Preserving WTMD’s license, euphony find format and work is cardinal our assemblage commitment.”

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The stations launched a caller website, yourpublic.org, but volition besides proceed moving their own websites.

WYPR launched successful 2002 to support section power of the non-commercial licence held by WJHU astatine Johns Hopkins University.

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WTMD started successful 1972 arsenic WCVT astatine what was past known arsenic Towson State University. In 1991, the presumption changed to the WTMD telephone letters and adopted the Album Adult Alternative format.

CBS Baltimore Staff