WBLV

WBLV (90.3 FM) and WBLU-FM (88.9 FM), together known as Blue Lake Public Radio, are public radio stations licensed to Twin Lake and Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Owned by the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Blue Lake Public Radio offers a fine arts–oriented format with classical and jazz music as well as selected NPR news programs to Grand Rapids and areas to the northwest along Lake Michigan.

Blue Lake Public Radio began in 1982 with the launch of WBLV, which filled a large gap in NPR coverage. Meanwhile, in Grand Rapids, what is now WBLU-FM was established in 1979 as WGNR by the Grand Rapids School of the Bible and Music, a non-degree-granting Christian college, as a student teaching tool. In 1988, Echo Broadcasting acquired WGNR; it was a local ministry rebroadcasting Moody Radio programming and donated it and WXYB in Zeeland to the network in 1991. When the school moved from what had been its campus, it evicted WGNR, and as Moody already had a signal covering Grand Rapids, it sold WGNR to Blue Lake Public Radio.