Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, FM 91 brings the best classical music, news and eclectic entertainment to listeners across northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan.


FM 91 In Concert is "our weekly celebration of the performing arts – music made in the FM 91 listening area by resident musicians, as well as visiting ensembles and soloists." The vast majority of the classical music aired on FM 91 comes from performances recorded on CD or LP, or from broadcast concerts produced in the musical and cultural centers of America and Europe. FM 91 In Concert seeks to highlight the tremendous cultural assets which are the musicians who live and work in our listening area.

The orchestras of Toledo and Lima are mainstays as are the several concerts sung each year by the Masterworks Chorale. We have gone as far afield as Sandusky to record the Waverly Consort, guitarist Liona Boyd, and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra; and concerts from the Festival Series of Bowling Green State University and concerts from the Great Gallery of the Toledo Museum of Art are regularly broadcast. Faculty concerts and recitals from area universities, including BGSU and the University of Toledo have also been a feature.

While it's easy to dismiss recording local musicians simply as: "it's what radio stations do," FM 91 believes that airing top-rate local talent is enhancing the quality of live in our community, completing a cycle that involves the listener and the music-maker in a very special way. You can hear FM 91 In Concert every Thursday at 8 p.m.


Click here to go to the Jazz Spectrum Web site where you can view photos from the Jazz Spectrum party, which was held on May 13, 2004.

I have been hosting Jazz Spectrum 91 continuously for fourteen years; my first show aired on April 1, 1989, and the show has been on every Saturday evening at nine since that date, with the exception of one Saturday several years ago, when the station aired a special show on holiday jazz. That's about 725 shows.

Jazz Spectrum 91 is designed as an anthology, a loose and flowing tour through the history of the music, showcasing the wondrous diversity of jazz and the virtuosity of the musicians who play it. The notion of jazz history, in any formal sense, is problematic, since the best recordings are timeless, tied not so much to time and place as to personal and collective inspiration, which, like all thunderclaps of genius, defy tidy explanation. Jazz is marked, at once, both by limitless innovation and enormous discipline, and it is this tension -- between the individual and the group, between form and invention -- that makes jazz such a source of boundless fascination. And joy.

-- Fritz Byers, host of Jazz Spectrum


I have been proud to create and host Portraits In Swing, now into its ninth year on FM 91.

My purpose with Portraits in Swing is to provide you with a great hour every week of Big Band Swing Music, with a little bit of history and a lot of nostalgia for the Lovers of Big Band music and its stars. I feature music from Glen Miller, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw and Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey, as well as current Big Band and Jazz stars such as the Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Diana Krall and Frank Sinatra Jr. From time to time, you can also hear interviews with the likes Jon Hendricks, Dave Brubeck, Peter Cincotti, and The Four Freshman. Your support of Portraits in Swing and, especially, the monthly request show is gratifying and highly appreciated. Please know that every Saturday night at eight, I will provide you with excellence and quality in that wonderful music called Swing!

--Larry Wagner, host of Portraits in Swing


Electronic Currents expands the musical range of FM 91 to include the best in today's electronic and dance music. Join host Richard Paton for a journey into the wide diversity of styles that is "electronic music." From ambient to techno, Electronic Currents brings you musical styles from around the globe every Sunday at 9:00 p.m.

If you are interested in starting your own collection of electronic and dance music, host Richard Paton offers a list of must haves. Click here to see his favorites.

Electronic Currents Playlists