ATTENTION 91.3 WHHI LISTENERS: MORE IDEAS, MORE OFTEN!! Ideas 91.3 WHHI now offers the full schedule of programs on WPR's Ideas Network. For details, visit our WHHI New Schedule FAQ page.

WPR's HD FM-digital broadcasts feature CLASSICAL MUSIC AND MORE...
For details, scroll down to "Special Announcements" (below).

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Welcome to the Southwest Regional Office of Wisconsin Public Radio. We invite your questions and comments about membership, programming and other regional broadcast-related matters; our office can also guide you through making major financial gifts or corporate support/underwriting contributions to WPR.

Our stations extend the mission and goals of our institutional partners, including UW-Extention and Wisconsin's Educational Communications Board.

Please let us know what's on your mind and how we can help -- and thanks!

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SUPPORT WPR!

WPR is community supported public radio serving southwest Wisconsin and beyond. Listeners support WPR through annual membership gifts. Learn more - and make a pledge! - at Support WPR.

WPR's community support also includes business, corporate and institutional sponsorships of local and network programming. Underwriting the cost of our programming provides many benefits:
* Creates interest in a business' products and services
* Enhances name recognition among a highly desirable, upscale and educated audience
* Associates a business with quality programming
* Promotes a business regionally, statewide or nationally

To learn more about WPR's corporate support opportunities, contact Jeff Durkee at 608-263-8162, or via email. You can also learn more at WPR Underwriting.

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WPR SOUTHWEST REGIONAL OFFICES - STAFF AND CONTACT LINKS

Offices and studios are located in Whitney Center on the UW-La Crosse campus:
Directions and area maps can be found here

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Public Inspection Files for the radio stations licensed to the Educational Communications Board and the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and programmed by UW-Extension and Wisconsin Public Radio are maintained in the designated locations, pursuant to FCC rules. They are available for viewing to the general public during regular business hours.

91.3-1 WHHI FM/HD1	Highland	Program Schedule	Coverage & Technical Information
91.3-2 WHHI HD	Highland	Program Schedule	Coverage & Technical Information
91.3-3 WHHI HD3	Highland	Program Schedule	Coverage & Technical Information
89.1 WSSW FM	Platteville	Program Schedule	Coverage & Technical Information

ATTENTION 91.3 WHHI LISTENERS: MORE IDEAS, MORE OFTEN!! Ideas 91.3 WHHI now offers the full schedule of programs on WPR's Ideas Network. For details, visit our WHHI New Schedule FAQ page.

Regional Events and Activities...

Online links to community, arts, and cultural events and organizations around the tri-state area of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois can be found on our Southwest Regional Events and Activities page. Links to Richland Center, Mineral Point, Platteville, Prairie du Chien and other southwest Wisconsin arts and cultural organizations.

Online links to other community, arts and cultural events from around the tri-state area of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa can be found on our Coulee Region Events and Activities page.

IN 2013, HD DIGITAL RADIO OFFERS CLASSICAL MUSIC (AND MORE) FROM WPR

HD digital radio broadcasts are available from Wisconsin Public Radio throughout southwest Wisconsin. These "high definition" digital stations also serve the adjoining portions of Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota.

Our "HD1" broadcasts on each of these stations offer a better quality sound of WPR's regular programs; "HD2" and "HD3" broadcasts offer additional channels of programming not normally available on the analog FM or HD1 stations.

91.3 WHHI-HD2 and 90.3 WHLA-HD2 feature WPR's 24-hour classical music network, WPR Classical. 91.3 WHHI-HD3 broadcasts the NPR News and Classical Music network, also heard on 89.1 WSSW-FM.

MORE ON HD RADIO...

HD radio broadcasts result in two significant changes for listeners with HD radio receivers:

* First, it enhances the sound of a station's existing programs by improving the signal to a CD-quality listening experience.

* Second, it allows FM radio stations to add additional channels of programming to better serve listeners who have HD radio receivers. (The station's main programming is heard on HD1, while additional programming can be heard on HD2, HD3, etc.)

Here in the southwest part of Wisconsin, 88.9 WLSU-FM introduced the first full-time HD radio signal to La Crosse in early 2007. In September 2008 WPR upgraded Ideas 90.3 WHLA, La Crosse, to HD, including the HD2 classical service, followed shortly thereafter by Ideas 91.3 WHHI, Highland; and in 2012, WHHI added its HD3 stream to the station.

Learn more about HD radio and WPR's HD radio stations here. Learn more about WPR Classical, here. And learn more about HD digital radio on a national basis here.

If you are an HD radio listener, we invite your comments and signal reports. Please email them to WPR's southwest regional manager John Gaddo.

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A WINTERY 'BLAST' FROM THE PAST: 2007 ENGINEERS COMMITTED TO SERVICE!

"To the applause of area listeners, Ideas 91.3 WHHI-FM, serving southwest Wisconsin from a transmitter site near Highland, was heroically restored to full power by a persistent team of engineers!" That was the word many WHHI listeners had been waiting weeks to hear!

Following several weeks of operating at low power in November/December 2007, engineers and tower crews completed work on replacing and retuning the antenna's transmission line in mid December. The work was completed despite several weeks of ice and snow storms that resulted in rather severe working conditions at times.

WHHI had been operating at reduced power since a problem was detected in the transmission line of the station's antenna system in early November. A connection problem within this line resulted in electrical arcing and subsequent damage, requiring replacement of about one-third of a nearly 300-foot segment of antenna line connecting the transmitter to the antenna on the 500-foot WHHI broadcast tower.

The WPR and ECB staff were very thankful for listeners' patience as our engineers and tower crews worked diligently to return WHHI to full power. It was clearly a "job well done."

In 15 degree weather, tower riggers begin hoisting a replacement transmission line up 500' to the WHHI antenna on Tuesday, December 11, 2007.