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51-595: The Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, at that time called the Radio Talking Book, was started as a side-channel radio on KSJR-FM, itself fairly new at the time. KSJR began January 22, 1967, as the classical radio station belonging to St. John's University, and was called MER, Minnesota Educational Radio. In 1974, the station's name was changed to Minnesota Public Radio , MPR. In 1967 and 1968, conversations took place between Father Colman Barry, OSB , president of St. John's University, William Kling, manager of

102-421: A WCAL advocacy group took St. Olaf College to court for breach of trust in selling the radio station. (A June 2008 judge's opinion described the station as a charitable trust and therefore, not the college's property to freely dispose of. [1] MPR's General Counsel and three attorneys took part in the proceedings. [2] However, a 2009 court found in favor of MPR due to its ruling that the statute of limitations on

153-423: A classical music station and a news and information station. Duluth and Rochester are served by a classical music station, a news and information station, and The Current. William H. Kling William Hugh Kling (born April 29, 1942) is the founder and president emeritus of Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media . He was also a founding member of the board of directors of National Public Radio,

204-629: A director of Skyword, Inc. (formerly Gather, Inc.) [3] , a story-driven advertising company operating in Boston . He retired as a director in February 2018. From 1989 to 2005, Kling served as a director of Travelers Inc, a publicly held insurance company. He was also a director of the privately held Wenger Corporation, which designs and builds music related equipment and systems and is located in Owatonna, Minnesota . Until December 2017, Kling served as

255-648: A director of ten fund boards of the Los Angeles-based American Funds mutual fund family, all of which are managed by the Capital Group. These include The New Economy Fund, Smallcap World Fund, AMCAP, AMF, ICA, Global Balanced Fund, American Balanced Fund, The New Perspective Fund, The Euro Pacific Growth Fund and the New World Fund. He has served as non-executive chair of The New Economy Fund and The Smallcap World Fund. Kling

306-518: A mix of classical music and NPR news/talk programming. However, as NPR expanded its offerings, Kling made plans to split MPR into separate classical and news/talk networks. To that end, MPR sought to buy a second FM frequency in the Twin Cities from the late 1970s onward. As a fallback, in 1980 it bought WLOL (AM 1330), one of the oldest stations in Minnesota, and changed its calls to KSJN (AM),

357-737: A mix of locally produced programs and national/international shows. The flagship station is KNOW-FM (91.1 FM) in the Twin Cities . The MPR newsroom has garnered international acclaim, most recently earning the inaugural Knight News Innovation EPpy Award in 2008. MPR's newsroom is known for its Public Insight Network, a database of citizen sources who contribute their expertise on a wide array of topics. The Public Insight Network grew to 140,000 sources in 2011 and partners with other news media, journalism schools, foundations and community groups. As of 2022, 24 full power stations carry MPR's News and Information service and various translator signals around

408-540: A population of 14 million people in the Los Angeles area. The for-profit Greenspring Company, which Kling served as president until 2011, is the parent company for Greenspring Media Group, a diversified regional and national magazine publishing and event management company. In 1998, Greenspring sold another subsidiary, Rivertown Trading Company, to the Target Corporation for $ 134 million. Greenspring

459-592: A separate webcast. KNOW-FM also features an HD3 subchannel consisting of programming from NPR and the BBC World Service . The signal carries additional hours of Morning Edition and All Things Considered not available on KNOW's main signal. Several other NPR and APM shows air on the service. Subsidiary Communications Authority (SCA's) are used to transmit a Minnesota version of the Radio Talking Book Network to disabled listeners around

510-698: A simulcast of KSJN-FM. In 1989, AM 1330 changed its calls to KNOW and began airing an expanded lineup of NPR programming. In 1991, MPR bought WLOL-FM , AM 1330's former FM sister, allowing it to finally split its services into two networks. The KNOW call letters and intellectual unit, including the NPR news and talk format, moved to KSJN's old frequency of 91.1. The KSJN calls moved to WLOL-FM's former frequency of 99.5, which began playing classical music full-time. MPR acquired Marketplace Productions, which produces Marketplace , "Marketplace Morning Report" and "Marketplace Money" from studios in Los Angeles, in association with

561-730: A single service. Beginning in 1991, MPR's programming split in two, forming separate news and classical music services (although one station in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan still carries a combination of those two services). The 2005 acquisition of WCAL in Northfield, Minnesota , which covers the Minneapolis–St. Paul and Rochester areas, provided the opportunity to launch another music service, "The Current." This third service has gradually expanded to most of southern eastern Minnesota. MPR's news and information service includes

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612-468: A subsidiary of MPR's parent company, was sold in 1998 for $ 124 million. Profits went toward creating MPR's endowment, a percentage of which contributes to MPR's overall annual budget. Total expenses for MPR in 2023, as shown in the MPR Board of Trustees audit, was 117 million dollars. The above total includes 17.7 million dollars spent on fundraising and is distributed among all the categories in

663-559: A variety of formats. Minnesota Public Radio also programs several other music services, all available online, with a few offered on HD Radio in the Twin Cities area. Carbon Sound is the newest MPR service, focused on R&B music and Black artists. In addition to streaming online, it is available on the HD 2 subchannel of KCMP in the Twin Cities. Local Current is a service programmed by the staff of The Current, and features music from Minnesota artists. The service streams online. Purple Current

714-579: Is a member of the Board of Trustees for St. John's University. Kling is a former member and chair of the Board of Trustees of The Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul , which was owned by MPR. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the JL Foundation in Los Angeles. He was a founding Director of National Public Radio and the founding Chair and President of Public Radio International , which

765-457: Is an R&B and Hip-Hop service inspired by Prince . Rock The Cradle is also programmed by personnel at The Current, and airs a variation of their AAA format, with music geared toward children and parents. It is available via a separate webstream. Radio Heartland features an eclectic mix of acoustic, Americana and roots music. The service can be found on the HD2 subchannel of KNOW-FM and also via

816-505: Is carried on 18 full power stations and various translators offer additional coverage. The flagship station is KSJN (99.5 FM) in the Twin Cities. In April 2021, the station rebranded as YourClassical MPR , aligning it with the umbrella branding used for American Public Media's digital classical music platforms and nationally-distributed programming. Most of the network's schedule is a simulcast of APM's Classical 24 network, although statewide morning and afternoon shows air Monday-Friday and

867-497: Is the nonprofit parent support organization of Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), Southern California Public Radio (SCPR), Classical South Florida (CSF) and American Public Media (APM) and is the sole shareholder of the for-profit Greenspring Company . Kling also served as CEO of MPR|APM and of Greenspring Company and Vice Chair of SCPR and CSF. As president of MPR|APM, Kling was responsible for MPR's three regional networks of thirty-eight public radio stations (serving five million people in

918-521: Is the recipient of honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Saint John's University (2011) and The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota (2013). In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The first station, KSJR-FM , went on the air in January 1967, and was later spun off into a separate nonprofit community corporation (MPR), of which Kling was

969-656: The University of Southern California , in 2000. That same year, MPR founded Southern California Public Radio, which entered into a public service operating agreement with Pasadena City College to run KPCC in Pasadena, California . In 2004, MPR began distributing its own shows through American Public Media , leaving PRI; APM was the third radio network in the U.S. to have received founding support from MPR, probably an unmatched record for an American radio station or network. In 2004, MPR announced it would buy WCAL (89.3 FM),

1020-481: The Upper Midwest . Many of the staffers and on-air personalities came from other similar stations, such as the University of Minnesota 's KUOM , community-oriented KFAI , and commercial alternative rock outlets REV 105 and Cincinnati , Ohio's WOXY.com . Programming on The Current is mostly locally produced. The flagship station is KCMP (89.3 FM), licensed to Northfield on the southeastern periphery of

1071-467: The Graduate School of Communications at Boston University . In 1964, Kling was asked by Saint John's University (where he had just earned his baccalaureate in economics) to attend graduate school in mass communications at Boston University and return to build a radio station.That station became the first in a series of 44 public radio stations ranging from Minnesota to Los Angeles and Miami. Kling

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1122-586: The Hamm Recording Project was known as the Communication Center, was also providing Braille for Minnesotans, and had expanded their volunteer base considerably. It seemed an obvious location for the Radio Talking Book. With the assistance of Communication Center engineer Robert Watson, a closed-circuit radio was designed that would pick up only the signal of the new Radio Talking Book, and the station began. The initial schedule had

1173-513: The International Association of Audio Information Reading Services, IAAIS, and includes member services that provide access to the printed word in any audio format. Minnesota Public Radio Minnesota Public Radio ( MPR ) is a public radio network for the state of Minnesota . With its three services, News & Information , YourClassical MPR and The Current , MPR operates a 46-station regional radio network in

1224-624: The Minneapolis Tribune newspaper read live on the air for two hours each morning, the Saint Paul Dispatch read for two hours each evening, and the remainder of the hours filled with programming from just over 20 magazines and a wide variety of books read serially. By the present day, that programming is two hours of the combined Minneapolis and Saint Paul papers in the morning, two hours of the New York Times in

1275-693: The Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network are also made available to blind, visually impaired, and other print disabled Americans through the Minnesota Braille and Talking Book Library. The inauguration of a radio reading service inspired other locations around the country to begin similar services. By 1975, there were enough of them that they decided to create the Association of Radio Reading Services, headed by C. Stanley Potter. That organization eventually became

1326-561: The Twin Cities, though the signal covers most of the metro area. A lower-power station, KMSE (88.7 FM), serves Rochester and southeastern Minnesota, KZIO (104.3 FM) serves the Duluth area, and translators offer additional coverage in other parts of the state. The service is also carried as an HD service on several of MPR's full power stations. KPCC , the NPR affiliate in Los Angeles operated by MPR's parent company, APM, carries The Current on its HD 2 signal. The Current also streams online in

1377-426: The Twin Cities. However, it only provided grade B coverage to Minneapolis and the western portion of the metro, and completely missed St. Paul and the east. Realizing that the station needed to cover the Twin Cities to have a realistic chance of survival, St. John's started KSJN , a low-powered repeater station for the Twin Cities, in 1968. The operation was awash in debt, and by 1969, St. John's realized it did not have

1428-542: The United States. MPR also produces and distributes national public radio programming via American Public Media . Minnesota Public Radio began on January 22, 1967, when KSJR-FM first signed on from the campus of Saint John's University in Collegeville , just outside St. Cloud . Colman Barry, then president of Saint John's, saw promise in the then-relatively-new technology of FM radio, and believed radio

1479-736: The Upper Midwest region of the United States) and its national program production centers in Saint Paul, New York and Los Angeles. American Public Media is the second largest national producer of public radio programming, following National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington. Southern California Public Radio, which Kling serves as vice-chair, operates radio stations KPCC (Pasadena) and KUOR (Redlands) under public service operating agreements with their respective licensees. SCPR serves

1530-421: The adequate financial or personnel resources to operate a full-fledged noncommercial radio station. With Barry's support, Saint John's transferred KSJR/KSJN's assets to a community corporation, St. John's University Broadcasting. This corporation later changed its name to Minnesota Educational Radio, and finally Minnesota Public Radio. Kling led MPR as president and CEO for 44 years, before retiring in 2011. MPR

1581-399: The chief executives of major Minnesota companies. Arctic Cat's CEO, for instance, made $ 566,157 last year." [2] In 2017 Minnesota Public Radio named its headquarters "The Kling Media Center" after him. He has been awarded honorary Doctorates from St. John's University and The College of St Scholastica . Kling was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. Kling was

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1632-564: The classical music station operated by St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota . WCAL (and a repeater station, KMSE in Rochester ), were sold in a deal valued at $ 10.5 million, which was approved by the Federal Communications Commission in 2004. The next year, following the acquisition by MPR, WCAL changed its call letters to KCMP and was transformed into MPR's third service, "The Current". In 2008,

1683-497: The evening, 11 hours per day of programming from serialized current-copyright books, and programming from over 300 periodicals. The programming is interrupted in six smaller Minnesota cities where teams of volunteers read local newspapers on the air. The programming is carried on satellite where it is picked up by many other radio reading services across the hemisphere, and it is streamed on the Internet. Copies of all books recorded by

1734-477: The founding chairman/President of Southern California Public Radio in Los Angeles , and the founding chairman and president of Public Radio International . Kling is a social media entrepreneur who built both successful non-profit public media companies and for-profit companies to support those non-profits. Kling holds a BA in economics from Saint John's University , Collegeville, Minnesota and an MS from

1785-463: The founding president. Over the years, he helped lead the station to grow into a statewide network in Minnesota while building similar networks in California and Florida. He was a founding director of NPR and in 1983 he created a nationwide public radio distribution arm (American Public Media (APM)). Kling served as president and CEO of American Public Media Group (APMG) until June 2011. APMG

1836-504: The matter had expired, nullifying the advocacy group's standing.) Today, MPR serves a regional audience of one million listeners through 43 stations presenting three broadcast network services. Original materials from Minnesota Public Radio have been contributed to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting . With the addition of later stations, MPR originally offered a mix of classical music and NPR news/talk programming on

1887-540: The network airs various specials and live broadcasts. The HD 2 signal of KSJN-FM offers a 24 hour feed of the Classical 24 network. On September 10, 2020, Garrett McQueen, the host of Classical 24's Music Through the Night , and MPR's only African-American classical music host, was terminated by American Public Media for "not following programming guidelines." According to McQueen, he was "given two warnings – one of which

1938-400: The state offer additional coverage. MPRNews.org is a non-profit news website maintained by MPR. This online news source covers issues that affect the state including politics, business, education, health, environment and the economy. MPR News offers headline news, video, blogs, audio and multiple ways for readers to become involved in the news-making process. MPR's classical music network

1989-532: The state, in cooperation with Minnesota State Services for the Blind. MPR also serves as the radio backbone for the radio portion of the state's Emergency Alert System , and as the backbone for the state's AMBER Alert System. MPR owns WGGL , the NPR affiliate serving Houghton, Michigan . The station airs a combination of NPR News, BBC World Service and Classical 24 programming. While MPR supplies weather updates, local MPR programming and news updates are not aired on

2040-658: The station, and C. Stanley Potter, Director of the State Services for the Blind from 1948 to 1985. It was decided to place the Radio Talking Book as part of the Hamm Recording Project, which was begun by the Hamm Foundation in 1953 as a public-private partnership in association with Minnesota State Services for the Blind. In 1953, the purpose of the Hamm Recording Project was to make textbooks, Minnesota magazines and Minnesota authors available in an audio format for people who were blind and visually impaired. By 1969,

2091-494: The station. Minnesota Public Radio regional programs: American Public Media programs heard on Minnesota Public Radio: Other programs heard on Minnesota Public Radio: Minnesota Public Radio is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization. MPR's funding comes from listener contributions (membership dues), foundations, corporate and private contributions, government grants, advertising, education partners and publicly traded securities. The for-profit Rivertown Trading Company, once

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2142-663: The table below. On MPR's federal 2021 tax form (the most recent available), total expenses are shown as $ 112,380,820. On their federal 2021 tax form, MPR entered 9.2 million dollars for "Fees for services (nonemployees)" under the category of "Other". Since that amount is less than ten percent (it's 8.2 percent) of their total expenses, they are not required to provide any details on Schedule O, and none were provided. The table below shows MPR's highest compensated employees, as listed on MPR's 2021 tax return. The amounts listed in this section are from MPR's most recent available tax return (2021). Total revenue in 2021

2193-518: The theatre seats, sometimes bringing in radio station staff and urging passersby to come into the theatre from the street outside. In 1980, MPR originated the Peabody Award -winning classical music show Saint Paul Sunday , which went national via syndication in 1981. MPR assisted in 1983 with the formation of American Public Radio - now known as Public Radio International, which merged with Public Radio Exchange in 2019. Originally, MPR played

2244-630: The upper Midwest. MPR has won more than 875 journalism awards, including the Peabody Award , both the RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting award of the same name , and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Gold Baton Award. As of September 2011, MPR was equal with WNYC for most listener support for a public radio network, and had the highest level of recurring monthly donors of any public radio network in

2295-484: Was $ 174,153,779. Minnesota Public Radio broadcasts on several dozen stations that serve Minnesota and its neighboring communities and various translators providing additional local coverage. Stations are located in Minnesota , South Dakota (Brookings and Sioux Falls), Michigan (Houghton), Iowa (Decorah), and Idaho (Sun Valley). MPR also operates KPCC in Pasadena, California . Most areas are served by both

2346-439: Was a charter member of National Public Radio in 1971, and had helped lay the groundwork for forming that organization during 1969 and 1970. In 1971, operations moved from Collegeville to St. Paul, funded in part with a news programming "demonstration" grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting . New studios were built and KSJN became the flagship station. During the 1970s, additional stations were added across Minnesota. It

2397-439: Was about his need to improve communication and the other warning was for switching out scheduled music to play pieces he felt were more appropriate to the moment and more diverse." MPR's third service, The Current, debuted on January 24, 2005, and airs an adult album alternative format. Several people on The Current's initial staff are well known in the area for previous work at stations that highlight music from Minnesota and

2448-466: Was an appropriate extension of Saint John's cultural and artistic functions to the broader community. He hired a 23-year-old graduate of St. John's, William H. Kling , as director of broadcasting. The network began more or less out of necessity. Shortly after KSJR signed on, it became apparent that St. Cloud and surrounding Stearns County did not have enough listeners for the station to be viable. Kling more than tripled KSJR's power in hopes of reaching

2499-517: Was during this period KSJN's news department won numerous regional and national awards and became one of the region's most highly-regarded news operations. In 1974, MPR began live broadcasting of Garrison Keillor 's A Prairie Home Companion , one of the best-known programs on public radio, from the Park Square Theatre in Saint Paul. In the early days of the program, members of the production staff were said to have to work hard to fill

2550-711: Was retiring as president of APMG and MPR as of June 2011. He intends to encourage a national fundraising effort to improve public media reporting strength and newsgathering capability in his role as President Emeritus of American Public Media. [2] Both the Minneapolis StarTribune and The St. Paul Pioneer Press listed Kling as one of 100 most significant Minnesotans of the Century in 2000. In an article on Kling's planned departure noted that he received $ 654,338 from APM in fiscal year 2009 – "a tidy sum by nonprofit radio standards, and one that puts him on par with

2601-458: Was sold in 2013. Kling's tactics have come under fire as being aggressive. MPR, for example, bought rival classical-programming public radio station WCAL in Northfield, Minnesota when its owner, St. Olaf College offered it for sale in 2004, eliminating a competitor for donor funds and switching the station's format to a widely successful alternative rock format hailed by younger Minnesotans. [1] On September 10, 2010, Kling announced that he

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