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Blue Ridge Public Radio / WHQR (NPR member stations)
U.S. center-left
Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR) and WHQR are separately owned, community-based NPR member stations serving Western and Southeastern North Carolina, respectively. Both carry NPR national programming alongside locally produced news; independent bias trackers rate NPR-affiliated outlets as slightly left-of-center in story selection, though factual accuracy ratings are high. The Trump administration's 2025 rescission of Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding directly cut both stations' budgets, and their coverage of those cuts has been openly critical of the policy.
Owned byTwo separate nonprofits: Western North Carolina Public Radio, Inc. (BPR, based in Asheville) and Friends of Public Radio, Inc. (WHQR, based in Wilmington). Each has an independent local board of directors.
LeaningU.S. center-left
On the administrationbroadly critical
3average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun