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Key Points on Upcoming WGTD Format Change

*Classical music with your favorite WPR hosts moves to WHAD 90.7 and WGTD 91.1 HD3. WPR Music will also be available via phone app, online and via smart speaker. For tutorials, go to wpr.org. 

*Much of WGTD's programming will remain the same, including Morning Edition from NPR with local news breaks from Dave McGrath and the afternoon's All Things Considered.  ATC will start an hour earlier at 3 p.m. Also remaining will be Greg Berg's Morning Show from 8:10 a.m. to 9 a.m. 

*A new WPR program, Wisconsin Today, can be heard weekdays from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. It'll be repeated weeknights from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. 

*WGTD will become the new home of the popular Larry Meiller Show. The call-in program will air weekdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

*The WGTD Mid-Day News will be replaced with a condensed six-minute version at 12:01 p.m. that will include breaking news, top stories and a full-length WGTD Market Minute with Bob Haggarty. 

*Noon Tunes will continue to be heard in a half-hour block on the third Saturday of the month at 10 a.m. 

*The long-running WPR program Chapter-A-Day will move to weeknights at 9:30 on WGTD. 

*Fresh Air will be pushed back an hour to 8 p.m. 

*Our Saturday evening block of locally-produced jazz, big band and more will be expanded by an hour and will air from 7 p.m. to midnight.

*Our Saturday morning, two-hour block of local programming will remain unchanged. 

The complete new schedule will be posted shortly. 

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