WMRA
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WMRA is a Public Radio formatted broadcast
radio station
licensed to Harrisonburg, Virginia
. Repeater stations serve Charlottesville, Lexington, Winchester and Farmville, VA. The network broadcasts primarily NPR news and talk programming, with classical music weekday evenings, and folk and blues on the weekends, along with programs such as Car Talk and A Prairie Home Companion. WMRA is owned and operated by James Madison University
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91.7 FM in Harrisonburg (under a local management agreement) with primarily a classical music format, as well as BBC
news, Democracy Now!
, weeknight jazz, Saturday folk/bluegrass/rock and Sunday morning sacred music.
Broadcasting
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Radio station
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licensed to Harrisonburg, Virginia
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Harrisonburg is an independent city in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia in the United States. Its population as of 2010 is 48,914, and at the 2000 census, 40,468. Harrisonburg is the county seat of Rockingham County and the core city of the Harrisonburg, Virginia Metropolitan Statistical...
. Repeater stations serve Charlottesville, Lexington, Winchester and Farmville, VA. The network broadcasts primarily NPR news and talk programming, with classical music weekday evenings, and folk and blues on the weekends, along with programs such as Car Talk and A Prairie Home Companion. WMRA is owned and operated by James Madison University
James Madison University
James Madison University is a public coeducational research university located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, U.S. Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the university has undergone four name changes before settling with James Madison University...
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Network stations
WMRA also operates WEMCWEMC
WEMC is a Public Radio formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Harrisonburg, Virginia, serving the Harrisonburg area. WEMC is owned by the Board of Trustees of Eastern Mennonite University and operated by Board of Trustees of Eastern Mennonite University....
91.7 FM in Harrisonburg (under a local management agreement) with primarily a classical music format, as well as BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
news, Democracy Now!
Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of...
, weeknight jazz, Saturday folk/bluegrass/rock and Sunday morning sacred music.