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Yummy! Check out VPR Cooks for "The Splendid Table's" Sugar Pumpkins with Vegetable Stew. "The Splendid Table" can be heard Saturday afternoons at 3 on VPR.

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New Program Schedules

Vermont Pubilc Radio now provides you with two distinct services - VPR and VPR Classical. VPR offers news and information programs and VPR Classical features beautiful music 24/7.

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More of What You Want with VPR and VPR Classical

Vermont Pubilc Radio now provides you with two distinct services - VPR and VPR Classical. VPR offers news and information programs from 9am to 3pm along with public radio entertainment favorites. And VPR Classical, our expanded network of stations providing classical music 24/7, is the exclusive home of Classical Music with Walter Parker and Saturday Afternoon at the Opera.

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VPR

You wake up to VPR and Morning Edition...then catch up with All Things Considered in the afternoon. But what about the middle of the day? VPR's new line-up features midday news and information programs from 9am to 3pm to spark your curiosity and expand your understanding of issues affecting our community and our world. They're programs VPR has consistently heard requests for, including On Point, The Story and BBC Newshour each day at 9am as well as VPR's daily regional news magazine Vermont Edition with Jane Lindholm at noon.

Weekends feature even more of your public radio favorites, including Selected Shorts, World Café and The Splendid Table. Your weekend mainstays - A Prairie Home Companion, Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me, Car Talk and This American Life - remain here on VPR. Locally-produced favorites My Place with Joel Najman and All the Traditionswith Robert Resnik are still here too. And we've expanded our locally-produced jazz programming with George Thomas to every weeknight.

VPR Classical

VPR Classical brings you the timeless beauty of classical music 24 hours a day. We do so with a sense of discovery; featuring traditional favorites, emerging artists and live performances. It is the only state-wide classical music network with local hosts throughout the day: Cheryl Willoughby, Walter Parker and Joe Goetz. Peter Fox Smith is also featured every weekend with Interlude and Saturday Afternoon at the Opera; also your source for the Metropolitan Opera in season. VPR Classical is a welcoming place whether you're a casual or passionate music fan.

VPR has always been committed to broadcasting classical music and we're very aware of its importance in our listeners' lives. VPR Classical is now available to two-thirds of the state's population. With this change to two distinct services, some listeners in central and northern Vermont, the Northeast Kingdom and Brattleboro may not be able to immediately hear VPR Classical on the radio.

VPR is working hard to expand coverage of VPR Classical so it is available to everyone in the region. And while we know it's not the same as having a traditional radio broadcast, VPR Classical is available online anywhere at vpr.net via high-quality streaming.

If you have an HD radio, you can listen to VPR Classical on digital channel 2 in northern Vermont on 107.9 (HD-2), in the Connecticut River Valley at 89.5 (HD-2), in the St. Johnsbury/Littleton area on 88.5 (HD-2) and it will be available in the Rutland region on 88.5 (HD-2) beginning October 3. Learn more about HD Radio.

You can read more about our plans for growing VPR Classical.

Designed with your input

Both VPR and VPR Classical were designed with you in mind and with your input. This change grew out of many years of listener requests for more news, more music, more public affairs programs and more entertainment. After extensive research and planning with the guidance of our Board of Directors, we determined that the most effective way to serve all our listeners would be to provide two services.

These are changes we've thought through very carefully. We spent the summer traveling around the state, talking with listeners about our programming. We also invited listeners to participate in an online survey, in addition to years of listener feedback via mail, email and telephone. We also researched programs' national and regional audience data and experience of other NPR stations and relied on the expertise and knowledge of VPR Staff.

This programming change is one of the most exciting and challenging times in our history. Please take a look at our new schedules and listen for a few days. We think you'll find at least a few new favorites on both services. And we hope you'll agree that two state-wide services greatly increase Vermont Public Radio's service to the region.

Please feel free to get in touch if you have questions or comments.

Related Links

-Where to hear VPR (Frequencies)

-Where to hear VPR Classical (Frequencies)

-More Classical Music resources

-FAQ about VPR's move to two distinct services

-Read Radio Flier articles detailing programming changes (pdf)

-VPR's Vision for the Future - our past online communication about this change

-Programming Survey Recap
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