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NHPR

U.S. center-left (mainstream public media)

Owned byNew Hampshire Public Radio, Inc., an independent nonprofit based in Concord, N.H. It holds the licenses for its stations and is not owned by NPR or the state.

FundingListener donations (including monthly sustaining gifts), business underwriting and sponsorship, and foundation and major gifts. It lost federal money through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (about $540,000 a year, roughly 6% of revenue) after Congress rescinded CPB funding in 2025. NHPR now describes itself as fully reliant on community support.

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

NHPR began as WEVO (89.1 FM), which signed on from Concord on August 4, 1981. It was first called Granite State Public Radio. It grew into a statewide network of eight transmitters and six translators that reaches nearly all of New Hampshire and parts of Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine. It airs NPR and other national programs and produces local shows and a daily newsroom operation. Like most public radio stations, its audience and editorial culture skew center-left, but its news reporting follows conventional mainstream standards and emphasizes state politics, including the first-in-the-nation primary. In July 2025 Congress passed and Trump signed a rescission package that cut CPB funding. CPB then wound down, and its board voted to dissolve it in January 2026. NHPR lost about $540,000 a year in direct support, and about $720,000 a year once centrally paid costs such as satellite distribution are counted. NHPR says donors have replaced much, but not all, of that money. In its own coverage and in CEO letters, NHPR treats the funding cuts as a direct threat to its operations. Readers should keep that stake in mind when it reports on the issue. I did not find a significant record of editorial scandals.

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Profile compiled 2026-10-28; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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