WVXU 91.7 FM

I don’t really have high praise for radio of any kind — there is just so much out there now that you can download as a podcast and listen to on your own time, instead of wasting it on someone blathering on and on or commercial interruption — but WVXU is a solid National Public Radio (NPR) station that hosts a breadth of programming from NPR, PRI, and American Public Media.
There are really three public radio stations in town — WVXU, WGUC, and WNKU — and, up until about a year ago, they were all broadcasting some part of the NPR slate. But then WGUC (the University of Cincinnati station) and WVXU (the Xavier station) combined forces, and VXU took over all of the national NPR programming and GUC focused it’s efforts on classical. WNKU (Northern Kentucky University’s station) then dropped a lot of it’s programming that VXU was also airing, and started focusing more of it’s efforts on more eclectic offerings and local programming.
And that’s where WVXU fails — there isn’t much local or original programming coming out of Cincinnati Public Radio that provokes any interest — NKU and even WYSO in Yellow Springs have much more dynamic original programming.