Yellowstone Public Radio

Yellowstone Public Radio (YPR) is the NPR member network for Montana and northern Wyoming, broadcasting from Billings as KEMC 91.7 FM and on a network of 12 transmitters and 26 translators. It is licensed to Montana State University Billings.

Yellowstone Public Radio (YPR) is a regional public radio network based in Billings, Montana, serving Montana and northern Wyoming. It broadcasts from the Joseph S. Sample Studios at Montana State University Billings as KEMC 91.7 FM and is also heard on KBMC (Bozeman), KYPB (Big Timber), KYPC (Colstrip), KYPF (Stanford and Lewistown), KYPH (Helena), KYPX (Helena Valley), KYPM (Livingston), KYPR (Miles City), KYPW (Wolf Point), KYPZ (Fort Benton) and KPRQ (Sheridan, Wyoming). Its 12 transmitters and 26 translators reach communities from Havre and Glasgow to Cody, Worland and Yellowstone National Park, one of the largest coverage areas of any public radio station.

KEMC began broadcasting in 1972 with a ten-watt transmitter at Eastern Montana College, now Montana State University Billings. It became an NPR affiliate in 1984, reached 100,000 watts in 1989, and took the name Yellowstone Public Radio in 1994 as it grew to four stations and more than 25 translators.

YPR's mission is to provide in-depth news, public affairs and cultural programming to a general adult audience in Montana and northern Wyoming. It airs NPR news alongside its own regional news coverage, classical music and jazz, and streams YPR, Jazz YPR, Classical YPR and YPR2: News and Talk. Its program lineup includes Resounds: Arts and Culture on the High Plains, Field Days, Flavors Under the Big Sky, Strings and Things, 56 Counties and Chrysti the Wordsmith.

YPR is licensed to and operated by Montana State University Billings, a unit of the Montana University System governed by the Montana Board of Regents, so station staff are university employees and openings are posted on the MSU Billings employment site. Friends of Yellowstone Public Radio, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, raises funds and provides volunteer and administrative support for the station.

The staff includes a general manager, news director, reporters and digital media reporters, Morning Edition and All Things Considered hosts, program hosts and producers, a chief engineer and equipment technician, broadcast operations, development and major gifts, and business and finance roles. Recent hires reported in its FCC EEO public file include a news director, a Bozeman area reporter and a community engagement manager, and the newsroom hosts interns from the MSU Billings Communication department.

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