{"id":15028,"date":"2015-08-22T10:04:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T14:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=15028"},"modified":"2015-08-22T10:39:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T14:39:19","slug":"ncpr-the-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2015\/08\/22\/ncpr-the-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"NCPR: the rising"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I started listening to North Country Public Radio in the mid-1970s, that name didn’t exist. I listened to WSLU, 96.7 fm, which beamed out 3,000 watts of radio goodness from Canton, NY. The broadcast reached most but not all of St. Lawrence County. A peanut farmer was running for president, as All Things Considered informed me, and the News from Lake Wobegon was quirky, as usual.<\/p>\n

North Country Public Radio didn’t become a thing until 1984, Orwell’s year, when the Canton signal was amped up to 40,000 watts and the station established its first repeat transmitter in Saranac Lake, giving it a beachhead in the Adirondacks. “Fritz”\u00a0Mondale’s presidential campaign was being crushed by Ronald “The Gipper” Reagan, as Morning Edition informed me, and the News from Lake Wobegon was quirky, as usual. In fact, Minnesota was the only state in the union to go for Fritz.<\/p>\n

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NCPR Coverage map<\/a>. Contour lines represent good in-home reception without an external antenna.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the years since NCPR has averaged one new transmitter every year, with number 34 signing on just yesterday, broadcasting at 91.3 fm from atop the wooden shed covering the old water cistern in Elizabethtown, NY. Half of the nation’s politicians are running for president, including a kid going by the name of Deez Nuts (polling at 9% in one survey), as Weekend Edition informs me, and the News from Lake Wobegon is still a little quirky.<\/p>\n

To followers of our coverage map<\/a>, it must be like the transparencies in an old encyclopedia showing the spread of the Roman Empire–except with Radio Bob Sauter instead of legions on the march.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Radio Bob only uses his powers for good, because now with our internet stream the sun never sets on the NCPR listenership. I wonder what listeners in Kyrgyzstan make of the News from Lake Wobegon? Or the Radio Bob Show, for that matter?<\/p>\n

When did you start listening? When did NCPR come to occupy your neck of the woods? Are you listening to us in Elizabethtown? Let us know in a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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