| WRJA-FM | |
| City: | Sumter, South Carolina |
| Area: | Central South Carolina - Columbia metropolitan area |
| Branding: | South Carolina Public Radio |
| Frequency: | 88.1 MHz |
| Format: | Public Radio - News - Talk |
| Erp: | 100,000 watts |
| Haat: | 305 meters (1,001 ft) |
| Affiliations: | National Public Radio Public Radio Exchange American Public Media BBC World Service |
| Class: | C |
| Facility Id: | 60974 |
| Coordinates: | 33.8811°N -80.27°W |
| Callsign Meaning: | R. J. Aycock[1] |
| Former Callsigns: | WMPR (1975–1980)[2] |
| Owner: | South Carolina Educational TV Commission |
| Website: | southcarolinapublicradio.org |
| Licensing Authority: | FCC |
WRJA-FM (88.1 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported public radio station licensed to Sumter, South Carolina, that covers both Columbia and Florence, South Carolina. It is the flagship station of the statewide "News and Talk Network" from South Carolina Public Radio (SCPR) and is a member of National Public Radio (NPR). WRJA-FM's offices and studios are on George Rogers Boulevard in Columbia.
WRJA-FM is a Class C station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for most FM stations. The transmitter is on ETV Tower Road in Sumter, sharing a tower with WRJA-TV, its PBS sister station.Radio-Locator.com/WRJA
On weekdays, the "News and Talk Network," including WRJA, carries news programs from NPR and other public radio networks: Morning Edition, All Things Considered, 1A, Here and Now, On Point, Think, Fresh Air, The World, Marketplace and from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation it carries Q. The BBC World Service runs all night.
On weekends and at 9 and 11 p.m. on weeknights, WRJA-FM airs one-hour weekly specialty shows from NPR and other networks. They include The Splendid Table, Milk Street Radio, The Moth Radio Hour, Travel with Rick Steves, The TED Radio Hour, The Ezra Klein Show, Radiolab, Reveal, Latino USA, Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, On The Media, This American Life, Planet Money, The New Yorker Radio Hour, Living on Earth, Snap Judgment, It's Been A Minute, To the Best of Our Knowledge, Freakonomics Radio and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Specialty music shows heard on weekends including World Cafe, Jazz Night in America and Mountain Stage. SCPR also produces Roots Music Karamu with Osei Chandler, heard on all stations (music network and talk network) on Saturday nights.
The station signed on the air on .[3] Its original call sign was WMPR. It was part of the South Carolina Educational Radio Network, featuring local programming from SCERN as well as network shows from NPR. It became WRJA-FM in 1980.
In 2001, the station, along with WJWJ-FM in Beaufort/Charleston and WHMC in Conway/Myrtle Beach, began airing a separate program schedule from the rest of the SCERN stations. These outlets, part of the "News and Talk Network," began carrying a mix of news and information programs with some jazz, blues and world music on weekends. The remaining stations, part of the "News and Music Network," play classical music during middays and nights with news and information programs during morning and afternoon drive times and some hours on weekends.