Western North Carolina Public Radio, Inc. operates Blue Ridge Public Radio and its two stations - BPR Classic and BPR News - as a community-based public radio network, committed to enhancing the quality of life in Western North Carolina by expanding listeners' horizons through new perspectives and listening experiences, promoting the free and independent interchange of ideas and information, enriching and reflecting the cultural climate, heritage and traditions of our region and society through classical and other music, and the arts.