Iowa Public Radio is adjusting its weekend lineup, adding Travel with Rick Steves and XPoNential Radio while it drops some other shows.
The changes begin Saturday, July 4. The network said in an email to members that it is making the changes after an analysis of audience data.
Rick Steves will air on Saturdays at 1 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m. on IPR News, which is heard on a statewide AM network and an FM translator in Ames. The addition is part of a schedule shuffle that includes dropping the TED Radio Hour and a Sunday repeat of Live From Here, which was recently cancelled nationally but still airs in reruns on Saturday afternoon on IPR News.
Meanwhile, IPR’s Studio One service, heard on the network’s largest FM signals, will make a change to its late Friday night programming. The Jazz Department will be dropped in favor of XPoNential Radio, an Adult Alternative service from Philadelphia’s WXPN.
XPoNential Radio will also run weekday afternoons on Studio One’s streaming service, when the terrestrial Studio One stations are simulcasting with the News network.
And IPR Classical, heard mostly on smaller FM signals, will drop From the Top and replace it with a repeat of Choral Tradition on Sundays at 7 p.m.
A complete rundown of the changes is posted on IPR’s website.