Tune in, stream or download the APR app today. Alabama Public Radio is a mixed format of news, classical music and entertainment. Reaching nearly two-thirds of the state, APR offers the best of public radio's national programming as well as locally produced news and music programming, supporting one of the largest radio news departments in the state. started WUAL-FM (91.5 FM) in January 1982 as the state's fifth public radio station. It emphasized service to the immediate western Alabama area in its first several years, since most of the region had no other access to the public radio medium. However, the university soon realized the potential for expansion into other parts of the state that similarly lacked NPR service. Since Birmingham, Huntsville, southeastern Alabama, and Mobile already had existing stations, station and university officials focused on developing relay transmitters to send WUAL's signal into northwestern and south central Alabama. Thus, WQPR (88.7 FM), originally a joint project with the University of North Alabama in Florence, appeared in the late 1980s. It was followed in the early 1990s by WAPR (88.3 FM), which is jointly owned by Alabama State University, Troy University (both of which already held station licenses of their own) and UA. In September 2007, WQPR received a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to assist in its conversion from analog to digital broadcasting. In 2011, due to the desire of licensee Spring Hill College to get out of public broadcasting, an existing station, WHIL-FM (91.3 FM) in Mobile, joined APR, effective July 1, 2011.
