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North Carolina Public Radio
Broadcast area	Research Triangle and eastern North Carolina
Slogan	Bringing the world home to you
Frequency	WUNC 91.5 Chapel Hill WRQM 90.9 Rocky Mount WUND-FM 88.9 Manteo
First air date	April 3, 1976 [1]
Format	News Talk Information
ERP	WUNC: 100 kW WRQM: 6 kW WUND: 50 kW
Callsign meaning	WUNC: University of North Carolina WRQM: Rocky (Roqy) Mount WUND: same as WUNC with last letter changed
Owner	Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Website	wunc.org

North Carolina Public Radio is a public radio network based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It broadcasts NPR, American Public Media, Public Radio International, and BBC programming in an "all-news-and-information" format. On the weekends, the network broadcasts locally-produced folk music programming; the longest-running continuously-produced program offered by the station is Back Porch Music, a weekly folk and traditional music program.

The network consists of three stations: WUNC, broadcasting from Chapel Hill on 91.5 FM (sometimes called WUNC-FM to avoid confusion with WUNC-TV); WRQM, from Rocky Mount on 90.9; and WUND-FM, from Manteo on 88.9. WRQM and WUND were added to the service in the 1990s. WUNC is the network's main transmitter, and all three stations were referred to simply as "WUNC" until 2005. The stations are now called "North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC", ostensibly to allow transition time between the two names. The call letters of the other stations are identified only during required station IDs at the start of each hour. The transmitter for WUNC-FM is located on Terrell's Mountain in Chatham County.

Aside from Back Porch Music, North Carolina Public Radio also produces The People's Pharmacy with Joe and Terry Graedon, a nationally-syndicated program first broadcast on WUNC in the early 1980s; and The State of Things, a regionally-syndicated local affairs show. The network began offering podcasts for The State of Things and other locally-produced news stories in September 2005.

North Carolina Public Radio's main studios are located in Chapel Hill near the Friday Center; in 2005, a second broadcast facility was opened in Durham's American Tobacco Historic District. On October 17, 2005, The State of Things began production at the new Durham location. Other programs continue production in the Chapel Hill studios.

Dick Gordon, former host of WBUR's The Connection, began hosting a new interview show called The Story with Dick Gordon on February 16, 2006. The Raleigh News and Observer has reported that North Carolina Public Radio pays Gordon a salary of $210,000 a year, making him better paid than NPR luminary Terry Gross and many other national hosts in public radio.

North Carolina Public Radio is operated out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; it should not be confused with WXYC, which is UNC's current student radio station.

WUNC first signed on the air in the 1950s, and was run by students early in its life. Broadcasters Carl Kasell and Charles Kuralt both worked at WUNC during this early period. A lightning strike silenced the first incarnation of the station in 1971.

WUNC began transmitting again on April 3, 1976, as an NPR affiliate. One of its earliest shows was Gary Shivers on Jazz, a jazz program produced by the station and syndicated regionally. (Shivers was the station's first program director and second General Manager.) WUNC had studios in Swain Hall on the UNC-CH campus; new studios were completed in 1999, into which the station has since moved. Prior to its switch to its news and information format, the station was a multi-format station of NPR news, classical music and jazz music.

• North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC home page
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WUNC
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WRQM
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WUND