Tier region to provide a mix of classical and news programming for a portion of the state which had previously been outside the range of a public signal. WXXI joined in partnership with Hobart and William Smith Colleges (operators of National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate WEOS (FM) in Geneva, New York) to provide an alternative non-commercial service for the southern Finger Lakes region: WITH (FM) in Ithaca opened during the spring of 2010. WXXI-TV, meanwhile, continued to grow. The Public Broadcasting Center more than doubled in size in 1991, adding additional radio studios and three fully equipped TV production studios. It built a new digital full-service television transmitter capable of simultaneously transmitting four programming streams—the main WXXI-TV public signal in high definition, plus the Public Broadcasting Service PBS World programming schedule and the Create schedule emphasizing and the arts instructional and how-to programming and the PBS Kids schedule children's programming, all of which air 24 hours daily, plus a special training channel serving regional public safety agencies with professional Instructional television programming. In 2012, WXXI announced a long term affiliation with the Little Theatre where WXXI took over operations of the venue. In December 2018, it was announced that WXXI via a for-profit arm was acquiring the main Rochester alternative weekly newspaper City Newspaper from its founders who were going into retirement. On October 7, 2022, WXXI announced it would purchase WJZR from Lee Rust. The $1.2 million deal is structured as a $675,000 payment as well as an additional $525,000 donation by Rust to WXXI; the acquisition was completed on January 24, 2023. WXXI intends to return the station to service in 2023 on a noncommercial basis as the first FM frequency for its news/talk programming, currently heard only on WXXI (1370 AM), with a new call sign likely to be selected at that time. Operations Television WXXI-TV (channel 21) - Rochester's PBS member station, along with subchannels for Create and World and PBS Kids Radio WXXI (AM) (1370) - news/talk with NPR, PRI, APM spoken word content along with local news WJZR (105.9) — a planned FM simulcast of WXXI (AM) WXXI-FM (91.5) - all-classical music with hourly NPR News updates WXXY (90.3) - a Houghton-based simulcast of WXXI-FM for southern part of Rochester market Reachout Radio, the area's radio reading service provider WRUR-FM, a partnership with the University of Rochester providing NPR News and eclectic music WEOS