Inside Radio reported that Purdue University has agreed on terms to sell news/talk WBAA-AM and classical WBAA-FM in West Lafayette, Indiana to Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media.
The stations will retain their call letters and formats.
The transfer could take place this fall.
Inside Radio said WBAA-AM is Indiana’s longest continuously operating radio station. It received its broadcast license on April 4, 1922.
The FM station began broadcasting in 1993.
Closer to home, NPR Illinois will see its funding phased out by the University of Illinois Springfield during the next several years.
Shop Talk is a weekly panel discussion about journalism issues. This week’s program featured Will Buss, who teaches in the Department of Broadcasting and Journalism at Western Illinois University and advises the student editors at the Western Courier, the students at student radio station The Dog, and the WIU chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists; Rajvee Subramanian, who teaches in the Department of Broadcasting and Journalism at Western Illinois University; and TSPR News Director Rich Egger.
