Local Features

Looking Back at the Founding of WXPR


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WXPR is celebrating 35 years on the radio this year. In this week's episode of A Northwoods Moment in History , local historian Gary Entz tells us exactly what went in to that first broadcast back in 1983. In December of 1979 media outlets in Wausau announced that White Pine Community Broadcasting, a non-profit educational corporation, was planning to build a non-commercial FM radio station in the Rhinelander area. The initial hope was to start broadcasting in 1981. Peter Nordgren, the
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