WYSO
WYSO 91.3 FM is the community-owned NPR member station for the Miami Valley, bringing news, music and storytelling from Yellow Springs, Ohio, to 14 counties in southwest Ohio, including Dayton and Springfield.
WYSO (91.3 FM) is a nonprofit, community-owned public radio station in Yellow Springs, Ohio, near Dayton. It is the NPR member station for the Miami Valley, reaching 14 counties in southwest Ohio, including Dayton and Springfield, with a potential audience of nearly two million, and more than 60,000 people listen each week. The station is operated by Miami Valley Public Media Inc.
WYSO signed on in 1958 as a 10-watt student and faculty station at Antioch College and became an NPR member station in 1973. It moved from university to community ownership in 2019. In 2026 it moved into new headquarters in the renovated Union School House in Yellow Springs, and it has run a storefront in Dayton since 2024.
The station carries NPR programs including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, along with the BBC World Service. Its local news team covers the region and is a founding member of The Ohio Newsroom, a collaboration of Ohio public radio newsrooms. The music department produces 15 local music programs, and the HD2 channel Novaphonic.FM carries variety programming. The Eichelberger Center for Community Voices trains community members in audio production and digital storytelling, and the Center for Radio Preservation and Archives leads the HBCU Radio Preservation Project.
WYSO has about 23 full-time staff, paid interns, and dozens of contractors and volunteer producers and hosts. It hires for news reporting and editing, on-air hosting and music programming, community audio production, broadcast engineering, membership, major gifts, underwriting and business support, development and finance roles, and offers paid news and development internships.