Kentucky Public Radio

Kentucky Public Radio

Type	Public radio network
Country	United States
Broadcast area	Kentucky
Key people	Managing Editor Ryland Barton Capitol Reporter Sylvia Goodman Enterprise Statehouse Reporter Joe Sonka Data Reporter Justin Hicks
Launch date	December 1997
Affiliation(s)	National Public Radio
Affiliates	WEKU, WFPL, WKYU, WKMS

Kentucky Public Radio (KPR) is a consortium of four public radio stations: WFPL (Louisville), WKMS-FM (Murray), WKYU-FM (Bowling Green) and WEKU (Richmond/Lexington).

The primary mission of Kentucky Public Radio is to facilitate content sharing among stations and the hiring and management of a Capitol reporter, an enterprise statehouse reporter and a data reporter.

KPR is managed by board of directors composed of the individual station managers.

In January 2015. Ryland Barton was named the State Capital Bureau Chief in Frankfort, Kentucky.^[1]