WFCR

WFCR is the flagship National Public Radio station for western Massachusetts, including Springfield. Licensed to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, it operates at 88.5 mHz on the FM band.

Its broadcasting range extends to western and central Massachusetts, northern Connecticut and southern Vermont and New Hampshire. WFCR's studios for most of its history were located at Hampshire House on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. However, in 2013, the station moved most of its operations to the Fuller Building in downtown Springfield. It airs a mix of NPR programming and classical music.

The station signed on May 6, 1961 as a repeater of WGBH in Boston. However, by 1964, it had expanded its local programming to 17 hours per day. The call letters represent "Four College Radio" becoming "Five College Radio in 1966". It was a charter member of NPR, and was one of the stations that carried the initial broadcast of All Things Considered.

The station is licensed to UMass, but receives funding from the Five Colleges (UMass, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College and Hampshire College). WFCR bills itself as New England Public Radio.