Texas Public Radio

Texas Public Radio

Texas Public Radio is housed at the Irma & Emilio Nicolas Media Center in downtown San Antonio, Texas.
Trade name	Texas Public Radio
Industry	Mass media
Genre	Public radio
Headquarters	San Antonio  , United States
Revenue	6,350,039 United States dollar (2022)
Total assets	12,996,965 United States dollar (2022)
Website	tpr.org

Texas Public Radio (TPR) is a public radio broadcaster based in San Antonio, Texas, United States, providing NPR and other public radio programming to south-central and west Texas, including San Antonio, the Texas Hill Country, and the Big Spring area. In San Antonio, TPR broadcasts two program services: classical music on KPAC (88.3 FM) and talk and information on KSTX (89.1 FM); most of the other stations air KSTX's lineup. TPR is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and listener support. Its studios are located in the Irma & Emilio Nicolas Media Center in downtown San Antonio.

KPAC began broadcasting November 7, 1982, as a non-commercial, all-classical music station under the aegis of the Classical Broadcasting Society of San Antonio. Its founder, arts patron Wilford Stapp, sought to fill the void created when classical music slowly disappeared from San Antonio commercial station KMFM. Meanwhile, attempts to bring a public radio station to San Antonio dated to the early 1970s. The construction permit for what became KSTX was issued in 1979, but construction was stymied by internal issues and difficulty receiving public support. Ultimately, the permitholders and KPAC agreed to merge, enabling KSTX to begin broadcasting NPR to San Antonio in 1988. The other stations in the TPR network were built or acquired between 1997 and 2017.