WPNE (FM)

WPNE (89.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Green Bay, Wisconsin. The station is part of Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR), and airs WPR's "NPR News and Classical Network", consisting of classical music and news and talk programming. WPNE-FM also broadcasts regional news and programming from studios in the Instructional Services building at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, along with sister Ideas Network station WHID (88.1). WPNE-FM transmits from facilities shared with WBAY-TV and WPNE-TV in Ledgeview.

WPNE
CityGreen Bay, Wisconsin
Frequency89.3 MHz (HD Radio)
Programming
FormatPublic radio, Classical music, News
AffiliationsWisconsin Public Radio, NPR, American Public Media
Ownership
OwnerWisconsin Educational Communications Board
(State of Wisconsin - Educational Communications Board)
WPNE-TV, WHID
History
First air date
1949
Former call signs
WHKW (1949–1973)
Call sign meaning
W-Public Broadcasting for NorthEast Wisconsin
Technical information
Facility ID63060
ClassC1
ERP100,000 watts
HAAT286 meters (938 ft)
Links
WebcastStream
Websitewww.wpr.org

The station signed on in 1949 as WHKW, originally licensed in Chilton. It was the third FM station in the Wisconsin Educational Radio Network, forerunner of Wisconsin Public Radio. In 1973, WHKW moved to the WPNE-TV transmitter site in Green Bay after that station's launch the year before, and became WPNE-FM;[1] it also supplanted an additional Wisconsin Educational Radio Network transmitter, WHMD-FM 91.5 at Suring, which had signed on in 1965.[2]

Unusual for a market of its size, as of 2019, WPNE-FM remains the only radio station in the Green Bay and Appleton markets which transmits an HD Radio broadcast; WPNE-HD2 transmits WPR's HD Classical Network full-time.

References
  1. "WHKW-FM to transmit from new location". Appleton Post-Crescent. January 5, 1973. p. B-11. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  2. "WHMD-FM" (PDF). 1970 Broadcasting Yearbook. 1970. p. B-227. Retrieved September 30, 2019.


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