Public Radio East is the NPR member regional network for northeastern North Carolina. It is a service of Craven Community College in New Bern, with studios in Barker Hall on the college's campus on College Court.
The network's original station, WTEB in New Bern, was launched June 4, 1984, on the frequency 89.5, at 66 kW. Its call sign contains the initials of Thurman Elwood Brock, Craven Community College's founding president. Later the station moved to 89.3 and increased power to 100 kW. The station has won many awards, including outstanding news operation from the Associated Press. During the 1990s, it added two full-time stations--WKNS Kinston at 90.3 and WBJD Atlantic Beach (serving Morehead City) at 91.5. It also added a low-powered translator in Greenville at 88.1, W201AO; now W210CF at 89.9 MHz, the translator is officially a repeater of WTEB.
Originally, all four stations aired a mix of NPR programming and classical music. In 2003, however, the network split into two separate services. The original NPR/classical format stayed on WTEB, while the other stations joined with newly signed-on WZNB at 88.5 in New Bern to become the News and Ideas Network, airing an expanded schedule of news and talk programming from NPR and other outlets. However, the two services simulcast most of NPR's more popular shows, such as Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
On February 5, 2018 the News and Ideas programming moved to WTEB, while WZNB, WKNS, WBJD and W201AO switched to classical as “PRE Classical”.PRE Changes to Serve You
Transmitters + Call sign Frequency City of license Facility ID ERP (W) HAAT Class Transmitter coordinates Founded WTEB 89.3 FM New Bern, NC 100,000 C1 June 4, 1984 WZNB 88.5 FM New Bern, NC 300 A 2003 W210CF 89.9 FM Greenville, NC 170 D WKNS 90.3 FM Kinston, NC 35,000 C2 WBJD 91.5 FM Atlantic Beach, NC 85,000 C1
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