Nashville Public Radio is the community-licensed nonprofit behind 90.3 FM WPLN News, 91.1 FM WNXP and Nashville Classical Radio, serving Middle Tennessee with trusted journalism, music discovery and cultural programming since 1962.
Nashville Public Radio is a community-licensed, listener-supported nonprofit public media organization based in Nashville, Tennessee. It serves Middle Tennessee with in-depth local news, music discovery and cultural programming, and describes its mission as connecting the region through trusted journalism, music discovery and shared experiences that help the community understand itself and each other.
The organization runs 90.3 FM WPLN News, an NPR member station with a local newsroom and the NashVillager daily newsletter and podcast; 91.1 FM WNXP, Nashville's Music Experience, a music discovery station launched in 2020 that produces live sessions in its Sonic Cathedral studio and stages events around the city; Nashville Classical Radio (91Classical), which streams online and on WPLN's HD2 channel; and WPLN International, carrying the BBC World Service on HD3 and 1430 AM. Translators in Cookeville and Tullahoma extend the news signal across the region.
WPLN signed on December 17, 1962 as a service of the Nashville Public Library and became an independent community-governed nonprofit in 1996. Its studios and offices are at 630 Mainstream Drive in Nashville. The organization is funded by members, corporate sponsors, foundations and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Nashville Public Radio hires across its newsroom and music programming (reporters, editors, hosts, producers), digital and audience development, membership and major gifts, corporate sponsorship, events and partnerships, engineering and operations, and finance and administration. Openings are posted through its Paylocity careers site, linked from nashvillepublicradio.org.
