Louisville Public Media

The current organization began in 1993, when the Louisville Free Public Library, licensee of WFPL and WFPK, along with the University of Louisville, which ran WUOL-FM, collectively transferred the licenses of the three stations to the community-licensed Public Radio Partnership.

[1] It was the first public broadcasting organization (not counting state networks) to unite three radio stations under a single umbrella.

WFPL turned its focus to news and talk, ceding its entire recorded music inventory and most of its music-based programming to WFPK, which dropped classical entirely and eventually became a mostly Triple-A station, largely due to the decline in popularity of the genres WFPL featured earlier in its history.

[3] In 2000, the stations jointly moved their operations to the former Electric Building in downtown Louisville.

Eight years later, the group changed its trade name to the current Louisville Public Media.