WYPR will begin broadcasting The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre’s material on their Sunday Night Radio Theater radio show once per quarter, according to Poe Theatre’s founder and artistic director, Alex Zavistovich.Each quarter, the show will air on a Sunday evening at 8 p.m. on 88.1 FM in Baltimore.Poe Theatre’s first broadcast on Sunday Night Radio Theater will take place on Dec. 8, the first broadcast consisting of a compilation of the first six streaming programs they did with WYPR, along with some recitations of Poe poems.For Zavistovich, this has been a five-year journey to be picked up by Baltimore’s NPR affiliate for their broadcasting schedule. The Poe Theatre has been streaming on WYPR for four-plus years, as well as on NPR, Amazon, Audible, and other platforms. With streaming, however, there are no real time constraints. On a broadcast, one must work within the station’s “clock,” accounting for time limits, station identification, news updates, sponsorships, and the like.WYPR will still carry Poe Theatre programming on their streaming platform on a more frequent basis, Zavistovich explained, whenever new material is completed. The broadcast programming, though, will be once per quarter for the first year or so. He is enthusiastic about the addition of “broadcast” to the theatre’s repertoire at WYPR.“There is a distinction that people actually make in their minds between being a podcast and being a broadcast program,” Zavistovich told Fishbowl in a phone call, with the broadcast carrying the heavier cache. “When a radio station commits to carrying your programming, that’s third-party validation what you’re doing is of value to our listeners.”Poe Theatre will be sharing that time slot with L.A. Theatre Works (LATW), which at first Zavistovich found intimidating.“Not that we are competing, but it is very much a big dog, little dog kind of a situation, right?” Zavistovich said. “They [have been] around forever. They have money like we could only dream of. They do fantastic work.”Then he realized the two radio theater companies are doing very different work, and they’re equally good in their own right.The stories listeners will hear from Poe Theatre’s first broadcast on Sunday Night Radio Theater include: “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Black Cat,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and more. Future broadcasts will include more podcasts they’ve already released, and new programming including the shows they did in collaboration with the Enoch Pratt Library Live Radio.