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WGTE-FM

Toledo, Ohio
Broadcast area	Northwest Ohio Southeast Michigan
Frequency	91.3 MHz
Branding	WGTE FM 91
Programming
Format	Public Radio - Classical - News - Talk
Affiliations	National Public Radio Public Radio Exchange American Public Media
Ownership
Owner	Public Broadcasting Foundation of Northwestern Ohio
Sister stations	WGTE-TV
History
First air date	May 2, 1976 (48 years ago) (1976-05-02)
Call sign meaning	"Greater Toledo Education"
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	66287
Class	B
ERP	13,500 watts
HAAT	289 meters (948 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	41°39′29″N 83°25′55″W / 41.658°N 83.432°W / 41.658; -83.432
Repeater(s)	90.9 WGBE (Bryan) 91.9 WGDE (Defiance) 90.7 WGLE (Lima)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen live
Website	www.wgte.org

WGTE-FM (91.3 MHz) is a non-commercial, listener-supported, public radio station in Toledo, Ohio, and is the sister station of Channel 30 WGTE-TV, Toledo's PBS network affiliate. WGTE-FM features classical music and jazz along with news and talk. It is a member of National Public Radio and also carries programs from other public radio networks. The studios and offices are on South Detroit Avenue.

WGTE-FM is a Class B station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 13,500 watts. The transmitter is on Corduroy Road at North Wynn Avenue in Oregon, Ohio. Programming is simulcast on three other Ohio radio stations: WGBE (90.9 FM) in Bryan, WGDE (91.9 FM) in Defiance and WGLE (90.7 FM) in Lima. Several times each year, WGTE-FM holds on-air fundraisers to ask for listener support.

Programming

Most of the day, WGTE-FM airs classical music. But on weekdays, it breaks during morning drive time, middays and afternoons for news and information programs from NPR: Morning Edition, Here and Now, Marketplace and All Things Considered.

On weekends, it mixes music programs with one-hour weekly public radio shows: Snap Judgement, Milk Street Radio, Radiolab, This American Life, The Moth Radio Hour, Hidden Brain, Travel with Rick Steves, On The Media and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. On Friday and Saturday evenings, the music switches to jazz. And on weekends, specialty music programs are heard: Hearts of Space, The Thistle and Shamrock, Pipedreams and during the season, The Metropolitan Opera.

History

WGTE-FM signed on the air on May 2, 1976; 48 years ago (May 2, 1976). At first, its programming was mostly classical music with six hours of jazz per week and hourly news updates. It also featured NPR's first weekday news program, All Things Considered.

When NPR began Morning Edition in 1979, that program was also heard on the weekday schedule. Gradually more news and talk programs from NPR and PRI were added, although unlike most other NPR affiliates, WGTE-FM continues to air a sizable number of classical music programs with some jazz music and other genres on weekends.

In 1981, WGLE-FM in Lima became the first simulcast station of WGTE-FM. WGBE-FM in Bryan was added in 1996 and WGDE-FM in Defiance signed on in 1999.

Repeaters

References

1. "Facility Technical Data for WGTE-FM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
2. Radio-Locator.com/WGTE
3. Broadcasting Yearbook 1978 page C-172. Retrieved Aug. 15, 2024.

External links

• Official website
• Facility details for Facility ID 66287 (WGTE-FM) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• WGTE-FM in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
• Facility details for Facility ID 53733 (WGBE) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• WGBE in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
• Facility details for Facility ID 53713 (WGDE) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• WGDE in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
• Facility details for Facility ID 53715 (WGLE) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• WGLE in Nielsen Audio's FM station database

• Lima, Ohio
• Radio stations in Toledo, Ohio
• Classical music radio stations in the United States
• NPR member stations
• 1976 establishments in Ohio
• Radio stations established in 1976