WPPR (88.3) is a

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station Station may refer to: Agriculture * Station (Australian agriculture), a large Australian landholding used for livestock production * Station (New Zealand agriculture), a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle ** Cattle statio ...

Demorest, Georgia Demorest ( ) is a city in Habersham County, Georgia, Habersham County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. The population was 2,022 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, up from 1,823 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 cen ...

. Originally, WPPR had the call letters WDEM (Radio Demorest), but changed to WPPR on August 19, 1996. It is part of the

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, which in turn is a member of

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, and

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. Unlike many stations of the GPB network, WPPR does not only broadcast simulcasts from GPB. WPPR also produces its own programming about the local area including

Habersham County Habersham County is a County (United States), county in the Northeast Georgia, Northeast region of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 46,031. The county seat is C ...

. One of the community features, ''Community Life in Northeast Georgia,'' is an educational and informative program about an area that is not well known. WPPR's studios are located on the

Piedmont College Piedmont University is a private university in Demorest and Athens, Georgia. Founded in 1897, Piedmont's Demorest campus includes 300 acres in a traditional residential-college setting located in the foothills of the northeast Georgia Blue Ri ...

campus in Demorest. This allows for Piedmont Mass Communications students to work directly with WPPR as interns.

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* {{NPR Georgia PPR WPPR Habersham County, Georgia

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