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BULLETIN: HPR3 Has A New Format!
 Effective June 1st, HPR3 is now The Bluegrass Gospel Channel. It features pure Bluegrass Gospel music 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week.
Originally, Heartland Public Radio's goal was to add a fourth channel of programming and program secular and gospel Bluegrass side-by-side. However, due to a catastrophic decline in financial support from our listeners, we are only able to maintain 3 channels of programming at this time - and just barely! Given the numerous requests from several of our remaining contributors to augment our gospel Bluegrass programming, we feel that switching the format of HPR3 from secular to gospel Bluegrass music is a move that will better serve our supporting audience.
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HPR Resumes Full Bandwidth Broadcasts
 Thanks to the generous contributions from Heartland Public Radio listeners during the months of May and June, HPR is now broadcasting with a full 128 Kilobits per second of bandwidth on all 3 channels! This will give the music we play a fuller sound and increase the fidelity of what you hear. HPR did employ MP3Pro technology during the 2 months that we were forced to reduce our transmissions to 64 Kilobits per second of bandwidth. While certain media players were able to enjoy better quality audio using special "mp3pro plug ins," listeners using standard players, like Windows Media Player, iTunes and Real Player were not able to appreciate the difference. As such, by returning to 128K, we can insure that all listeners to Heartland Public Radio can hear the best audio quality possible. On the flip side, HPR is no longer offering low bandwidth/dial-up service audio streams due to the increased cost of restoring our high-quality 128 Kilobit per second streams along with a sharp decrease in demand for such low-bandwidth/dial-up streams. For the few listeners who continue to rely on our dial-up streams, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
HPR's Archived Playlists Are Now Active
Heartland Public Radio is proud to announce the return of  archived playlists. While, the Playlists link has been an assigned navigational button for a long time now, HPR has not had the funding available to activate this feature. Because the archived playlists function is very resource-intensive, it does cost HPR more money to maintain this feature.
The archived playlists section is constantly collecting artist names and song titles from all 3 HPR channels. Every 5 minutes, each station's playlist is automatically updated.
This feature is helpful for folks who are listening to HPR but who may be too busy to run to their screen to find out the name of a song that they are interested in. All you will need to know is the day and time (Central Time) that the song aired...and, of course, which HPR channel it aired on. This feature will also allow artists and record labels to track airplay of their music on Heartland Public Radio.
To help defray the cost of these playlist archives, HPR has partnered with retail giant Amazon.com. Now, when you click on most Artist or Song Title links from these playlists, you will be taken to Amazon.com where you will have the option of purchasing the music you hear on HPR. Whenever you purchase anything from Amazon.com via a link from anywhere on the HPR Website, Amazon will donate a generous portion of that purchase to HPR! (In order for this purchase to count for HPR, you must have arrived onto Amazon.com via a link from the HPR Playlists or from some other link on the HPR Website. If you manually navigate to Amazon.com on your Web browser, then HPR will not benefit from your purchase.)
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