I was listening to NPR this morning, and suddenly the news came on about what was happening in Ohio. It took a moment to figure out that instead of having tuned in to WUOM 91.7 that I had picked up WGTE 91.3 instead. Who knew that things in Cleveland were so different from here? Fascinating.

Here's as an exhaustive a list as I could come up with of Michigan radio stations that carry programming from NPR, National Public Radio. Most of these have some kind of online signal, so that you can tune in from wherever you are. Many stations have at least some local news reporting that shows up as text rather than audio. In general, not every program that is broadcast over the air also shows up online. I'm pretty sure that I didn't miss any NPR stations, but I might have missed other public radio stations that don't carry NPR programming.

A good comprehensive list of radio stations for Michigan is maintained by OnTheAir.net.

Southeastern Michigan

Ann Arbor: Michigan Radio broadcasts from the University of Michigan as WUOM 91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit, WVGR 104.1 Grand Rapids and WFUM-FM 91.1 Flint.

Ypsilanti: WEMU 89.1 broadcasts from Eastern Michigan University.

Detroit: WDET 101.9 FM broadcasts from Wayne State University.

Mid Michigan

East Lansing: WKAR, 90.5 FM, is a service of MSU Broadcasting Services at Michigan State University. WKAR also transmits news programs on AM 870 during daylight hours.

Lansing: WLNZ, 89.7 FM, broadcasts from Lansing Community College.

Mount Pleasant: WCMU, 89.5 FM, is a service of CMU Public Broadcasting at Central Michigan University. WCMU's signal can be picked up across much of northern Michigan and the eastern Upper Peninsula, with transmitters in Bay City, Alpena, Standish, the Soo, Oscoda and Harbor Springs.

Western Michigan

Twin Lake: Blue Lake Radio, WBLV-FM 90.3 in the Muskegon area and WBLU-FM 88.9 in Grand Rapids. It is a service of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, a summer school of the arts located on a 1,300 acre campus in Michigan’s Manistee National Forest.

Kalamazoo: WMUK is a service of Western Michigan University.

Berrien Springs: WAUS is part of Andrews University.

Grand Rapids: WVGR-FM 104.1 retransmits programming from Michigan Radio (see above).

Muskegon: WGVU is a service of Grand Valley State University.

Northern Lower Peninsula

Interlochen: WIAA, Interlochen Public Radio runs both news and music programming on two sets of stations. In Traverse City, WICA-FM 91.5 is a news station with four reporters and NPR news. The stations in Interlochen (WIAA-FM 88.7) broadcasts classical music with translators at Mackinaw City (WIAB, 88.5 FM), East Jordan/Charlevoix (WICV-FM). "IPR Music Radio can be heard in more than 20 counties, from well above the Mackinac Bridge south to Big Rapids, and from Michigan’s west coast to Roscommon." The programming comes from the Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Upper Peninsula

Houghton : WGGL-FM, 91.1. Supported by Michigan Tech, WGGL is an affiliate of Minnesota Public Radio.

Marquette: WNMU-FM, 90.1, is a listener supported public service of Northern Michigan University.

Northern Ohio

Toledo: WGTE FM 91.3 is located in Toledo, Ohio.

See On The Radio's listings for Ohio for a complete list.

Edward Vielmetti listens to the radio for AnnArbor.com.