Texas Public Radio

To be the most trusted and reliable source of news in Texas.

To deliver programming and content that is relevant and engaging to diverse audiences.

To enter into and sustain smart collaborations that are force multipliers.

To serve as an indispensable community analyst.

To ensure robust funding for our future.

TPR facility serves as a platform for community engagement.

TPR has 4 Strategic Anchors that will inform every decision and differentiate TPR from the competition.

(1) Quality content: Does it meet our definition of quality?

(2) Good for Communities: Is it good for our communities?

(3) Strategic Investment: Does it represent a strategic investment of resources?

(4) True to our Brand: Is it true to the TPR brand?

We're committed to San Antonio and surrounding areas, where we operate seven non-commercial radio stations. KPAC 88.3 FM and KSTX 89.1 FM broadcast to San Antonio and South Central Texas. KTXI 90.1 FM broadcasts to the West Central Hill Country. KTPR 89.9 FM broadcasts to the Permian Basin Area. KVHL 91.7 FM broadcasts to the Highland Lakes region. KTPD 89.3 FM broadcasts to Del Rio. KCTI 1450 AM broadcasts to Gonzales. Listeners may listen via the TPR app as well as access content online anytime from anywhere without cost or other barriers to entry.

We have been in San Antonio since 1988. TPR has grown from 30 employees to 52 in the last nine years at a time when many media organizations have been reducing both staff and coverage of local issues. We engage 3-4 paid interns each year. Our news department is ever expanding and we now have seven positions dedicated to local coverage in the priority beats of Arts & Culture, Bioscience & Medicine, Border & Immigration, Education, Local Government, Military & Veterans, and Technology & Entrepreneurship.

TPR moved to its new offices to the historic Alameda Theater complex on the San Pedro Creek in the Zona Cultural in January 2020. TPR's new home will facilitate expanded local news coverage by permitting the addition of more staff and enhancing available technologies. A 'storefront' studio, an amphitheater, performance space and a high-profile location connects TPR literally and directly to heart of the community.

We have developed content that is relevant and engaging to diverse audiences on-air and online such as The Source, Texas Matters, Fronteras, Petrie Dish (a coronavirus-focused podcast) World Music, and Classical Connections. This is also true of our community outreach events, including Worth Repeating, Think Science, Silver Solutions, When I Grow Up, Cinema Tuesdays and Sounds like KPAC. Smart collaborations are in place that are force multipliers such as the Texas Newsroom, a collaboration between Texas’ largest stations and NPR, in which public radio stations in Texas share technology and resources to produce stories featuring Texans telling the stories of Texas locally, regionally and on the national stage. Generation Listen is an affinity group that connects TPR to a young audience that shares our passion for creating a more informed and civically-engaged public, continues to curate events for its young, diverse audience. We serve daily as an indispensable community catalyst through our focused local reporting on issues important to our community. We also hosted live mayoral debates in 2017 and 2019. To ensure robust funding for our future, TPR continues to build a strategic web of new grant opportunities and to educate supporters on the efficiency and effectiveness of becoming sustaining members and making payments by EFT.

In March 2020, we relocated to the heart of San Antonio on the banks of the San Pedro Creek in the Irma & Emilio Nicolas Media Center. A prominent feature of the new facility will be the Carlos and Malú Alvarez Theater, a black box theater, central to TPR’s vision for eventually convening community conversations, and hosting political forums and cultural performances in a prominent and accessible location. However, the 2020 coronavirus pandemic led TPR to consider new and innovative ways of reaching audiences beyond the broadcast signal, and many of our signature events such as “Think Science” and “Worth Repeating” were successfully held online. TPR is now planning live events such as concerts and community programming that will allow audiences to enjoy and learn while safely maintaining physical distance from one another.

Three seasons of TPR’s “Live At Jazz, TX” program will be offered to stations nationwide as syndicated programming, and the TPR brand is increasingly recognizable as demonstrated by NPR’s acquisition of TPR-produced reports. We're building that statewide network by the addition of three new stations, one each in 2015, 2016 and 2017 and through our two year leadership role in forming the Texas Newsroom. These achievements are all part of our effort to become the most trusted and reliable source of news in Texas. The to date success can be measured by (1) a substantial number of awards recognizing excellence in journalism from 2018 to 2020,