WRR (FM)

WRR (101.1 FM, "Classical 101") is a municipally-owned radio station, owned by the city of Dallas, Texas, that broadcasts a classical music format.
WRR (AM), now known as KTCK), began broadcasting via AM in 1920 http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/RR/ebr1.html Handbook of Texas Online. and received its license and call letters on August 5, 1921. In 1948, WRR-FM received its first FM license. After WRR 1310 was sold WRR-FM changed its call letters to WRR.
Despite its public ownership, WRR is a commercial station and sells advertising. Over the years, private broadcasters in the Dallas-Fort Worth market have made numerous but unsuccessful calls for privatizing the station.
KTCK 1310, formerly WRR, is the oldest commercially operated radio station in Texas and the second oldest in the United States http://www.wrr101.com/about.shtml "About WRR," WRR Classical 101.1 FM behind KDKA in Pittsburgh.
==Notable figures==
The station is the starting point of John Peel's radio career. Peel, who later became a British disc jockey, notably covered the arraignment hearing of Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before Oswald was shot and killed.
WRR 1310 also first brought the voice of singer Kay Starr to the airwaves.
==References==
==External links==
*WRR official website
*DFW Radio Archives - WRR
*Query the FCC's FM station database for WRR 
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Category:Classical music radio stations in the United States
Category:Texas classical music
Category:Government of Dallas, Texas
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