WLRN-FM

WLRN-FM

City of license	Miami
Broadcast area	South Florida
Branding	WLRN Radio
Slogan	Public Radio for South Florida and the Florida Keys
Frequency	91.3 (MHz) (also on HD Radio)
First air date	1948
Format	Public radio
ERP	47,000 watts
HAAT	285 meters
Class	C1
Facility ID	66339
Callsign meaning	We LeaRN
Affiliations	NPR
Owner	Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	WLRN radio

WLRN-FM is a class C1 FM station on 91.3 and is the main public radio station for South Florida and the Keys based in Miami. The station is owned-and-operated by the Miami-Dade County Public Schools and is the area's NPR member station.

WLRN first signed on in 1948.

Its HD2 service is WLRN Xtra HD, "South Florida’s Alternative News and Talk Station", featuring talk programming by day and BBC World Service at night. Until December 2, 2007, HD2 carried "Classical 24", which offered classical music 24 hours per day.^[1] Classical 24 has since moved to another public radio station, WKCP 89.7 FM, after that station's acquisition by Classical 24's parent, American Public Media.

The station also maintains its long-time radio reading service for the blind on an analog subcarrier.

The school board also owns WLRN-TV, a PBS member television station.

Translators

Since the mid-1990s, the station has had five broadcast translator stations, evenly-spaced down the Florida Keys. Listed from northeast to southwest, they are:

• W228AY 93.5 in Key Largo, Florida
• W221AY 92.1 in Islamorada, Florida
• W227AD 93.3 in Key Colony Beach, Florida
• W206AS 89.1 on Big Pine Key, Florida
• W263BO 100.5 in Key West, Florida

These stations do not yet appear to carry HD Radio.

In late September 2008, WLRN launched a full-powered, class C3, 12kW station, WKWM 91.5 in Marathon, Florida, which simulcasts WLRN programming for the southern Keys.

Controversy

In June 2011, WLRN dropped ties with the Florida Public Radio Network, a statewide network of public radio stations designed to provide coverage of the Florida Legislature and other Florida-relevant issues, partly in response to its producer, WFSU-FM in Tallahassee, receiving $2.8 million in funding for various services related to Florida government, including $497,522 for "statewide government and cultural affairs programming", which includes the Florida Public Radio Network. This is despite the $4.8 million of funding to other public radio and television stations (including WLRN radio and television) vetoed by Governor Rick Scott in May 2011. In its place, WLRN will join the joint partnership between the St. Petersburg Times and The Miami Herald in coverage of state issues from the papers' Tallahassee bureau.

External links

• WLRN radio
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WLRN
• Radio-Locator information on WLRN
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WLRN
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WKWM
• Radio-Locator information on WKWM
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WKWM
• Query the FCC's FM station database for W228AY
• Query the FCC's FM station database for W221AY
• Query the FCC's FM station database for W227AD
• Query the FCC's FM station database for W206AS
• Query the FCC's FM station database for W263BO