88.5 WFDD, listener supported Public Radio for the Piedmont, is a broadcast service of Wake Forest University, serving more than 133,000 listeners across 32 counties in the Piedmont and High Country of North Carolina and parts of southern Virginia. Initially founded in 1946, it is the longest continuously-broadcasting public radio station in North Carolina and the state's charter NPR affiliate. It has a strong focus on local news coverage and community engagement, and also broadcasts nationally-distributed news and entertainment programming from NPR, APM, PRI, and the BBC, among others.