WLRN Public Media is South Florida's public radio and television service, based in Miami: NPR member WLRN 91.3 FM, WKWM 91.5 FM in the Florida Keys, PBS member WLRN-TV and WLRN News, serving the region from the Palm Beaches to Key West.
WLRN Public Media is the public radio and television service for South Florida, based at the ABM Telecommunications Center on NE 15th Street in Miami. Its stations, WLRN 91.3 FM, WKWM 91.5 FM in the Florida Keys and WLRN-TV, are licensed to the School Board of Miami-Dade County and operated under a media management agreement by South Florida Public Media Group, Inc. (formerly Friends of WLRN), the nonprofit responsible for daily operations and the station's digital platforms.
WLRN Radio signed on in 1948 and WLRN-TV followed in 1962. WLRN 91.3 FM, South Florida's oldest FM station, is an NPR member and describes itself as Florida's largest public radio station; its programming is also heard on WKWM in Marathon and on FM translators across the region, including 101.9 in the Palm Beaches. WLRN-TV (channel 17) is a PBS member station offering national PBS programming, children's educational content and local documentaries, more than 40 of which have been distributed to public television stations nationwide since 2005.
WLRN News is a daily multimedia newsroom serving radio, WLRN.org, social media and podcasts, with 23 newscasts a day, the live weekly public affairs programs The Florida Roundup and The South Florida Roundup, and podcasts such as Americas Decoded. The newsroom won national Edward R. Murrow awards in 2021, 2022 and 2023, and from 2003 to 2020 it was embedded in the Miami Herald newsroom. WLRN also provides media support to Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
WLRN hires for news (producers, reporters, editors and paid newsroom interns), programming and production, engineering, corporate support, membership and administration. Some roles in the school district's media programs are posted by Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
