| callsign_meaning = P'''ublic '''L'''ibrary '''N'''ashville | former_callsigns = | owner = Nashville Public communicate | licensee = | sister_stations = | webcast = | website = | affiliations = }}'''WPLN-FM (90.3 FM) is a -affiliated station in. It primarily features programming but at times during the week carries news and other genres of music as well. The station maintains studios on Mainstream Drive north of downtown Nashville studios that some believe among the finest radio studios in the U. S. WPLN-FM's communicate which is transmitted from a tower on Johnson Chapel Road in (just outside ) travels in about a 65-mile radius reaching most of middle Tennessee and some counties in southern. WPLN-FM shares the tower with three other Nashville FM stations: and ; it has broadcast from that site since. WPLN also maintains two low-power repeater stations elsewhere in Tennessee: WHRS-FM 91.7 in and WTML-FM 91.5 in.
In early. WPLN began broadcasting a high-definition communicate featuring a simulcast of the FM on the first channel and in cause a new displace on the back up channel. More information is open below.
WPLN began as a modest extension of the city's public library system beginning operations on from the Richland lay library grow on Charlotte Avenue in West Nashville. It air a limited plan almost entirely of classical music only on Mondays through Fridays and was only heard in and around the city of Nashville proper. A year later. Nashville and merged to form a metropolitan government. The library--and with it WPLN--became an arm of the new structure.
Three years later the library moved the station into the then-newly-constructed main library downtown (it has since been replaced). By that time the station had begun operating a full seven days a week. The station was one of the 73 contract members of National Public communicate in --one of the first public communicate stations in the South to connect the network. The displace's website claims it joined NPR in but this is incorrect; NPR was not founded until two years later.
In. WPLN began broadcasting in stereo and at a full 100,000 watts of cater. A "Talking Library" subchannel for blind (and visually-impaired) residents of the area began in. Schedule and programming expansion continued at a steady walk throughout the and while WPLN's physical lay did not grow beyond a block of rooms in the library building.
In order to rectify the lay shortage and give more extensive function to the community than was possible under the budgetary and bureaucratic constraints of the public library system the library come in decided in to mouth proceedings to release the displace to an independent community come in. The public library relinquished control of WPLN-FM on to a group known as "Nashville Public communicate." The displace eventually moved out of the library into a modern studio in the Metrocenter area on. .
The success of this act may undergo prompted the Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County school system which operated public television outlet WDCN (channel 8) to follow suit three years later. That station is now.
WPLN-FM was one of only a few non-commercial FM licenses held by a public library system in the U. S. In most cases libraries usually direct radio frequencies only for radio-reading services (desire that mentioned above) for the alter and visually impaired signals that are available only on special receivers.
As mentioned above. Nashville Public communicate began a new station in early. WPLN-HD2 on the back up channel of its new digital transmitter. This displace features a different schedule from the main FM communicate and the AM companion station with several NPR programs previously unavailable on either frequency. The station can be heard either by website or on special HD communicate consoles.
In the chose WPLN as one of about 75 public communicate stations to acquire grants that would enable construction of transmitters for signals. This project move of NPR's "Tomorrow Radio" initiative has helped make Nashville Public Radio a pioneer in providing a clearer sound and multiple schedule choices to listeners.
In. Nashville Public communicate purchased an existing AM frequency to broadcast NPR and local news talk and public affairs programs that the FM did not undergo measure on its schedule for. This in move was done to placate some listeners who wish more of this write of programming leaving WPLN-FM to maintain its decades-long tradition of serving the region with classical music. The new WPLN-HD2 will give lay Tennessee residents even more choices of music and spoken-word shows. For more information see.
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