WHRO Public Media is the PBS and NPR public media organization for Hampton Roads and Eastern Virginia, based in Norfolk. Owned by 21 local school districts, it runs WHRO TV 15, WHRV 89.5 FM, classical WHRO 90.3 FM, WHRO News and WHRO Education.
WHRO Public Media is the public media organization for Hampton Roads and Eastern Virginia, based in Norfolk, Virginia. It is a community licensee owned by the Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association, a consortium of 21 local public school districts, and has served the region since 1961, when it went on the air as Virginia’s first noncommercial educational television station.
WHRO operates WHRO TV 15, the region’s PBS station, with additional channels including WHRO World, WHRO Create and WHRO Kids; WHRV 89.5 FM, the region’s NPR news station; WHRO 90.3 FM, a locally hosted classical music station; and WFOS 88.7 FM, Time Machine Radio. Its programming also reaches audiences through streaming, the WHRO app and whro.org. The WHRO News team covers Eastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, with reporting on affordable housing, sea-level rise, health care, the military and veterans.
WHRO Education produces online courses used in high schools across Virginia, runs eMediaVA, a web-based library of multimedia learning resources, and offers professional development for teachers, serving more than 286,000 students and 25,000 teachers. WHRO employs about 100 people and hires across education, journalism, broadcast programming, interactive services, information technology, development, engineering, accounting and other areas.
