KERA-FM

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KERA

City of license	Dallas, Texas
Broadcast area	Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
Branding	KERA 90.1
Slogan	Radio Unlimited
First air date	1973 as KZAG
Frequency	90.1 MHz
Format	Public Radio
ERP	100,000 watts
Class	C0
Callsign meaning	New era in broadcasting
Former callsigns	KZAG (1973-1974)
Affiliations	NPR, BBC
Owner	North Texas Public Broadcasting
Website	kera.org

KERA (90.1 FM) is a public radio station based in Dallas, Texas that is the National Public Radio member for the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Its main transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas, and translators serve Tyler (K261CW, 100.1 FM) and Wichita Falls (K202DR, 88.3 FM). The station was established on July 11, 1974. The station's call letters, which are said to represent a "new era in broadcasting," are shared with Dallas public television station KERA-TV; both are owned by North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc., a non-profit corporation registered in the state of Texas. While there is cross-promotion between stations, each operates its own pledge drives.

1 Programming format
2 Funding
3 Station Slogans
4 External links

[edit] Programming format

KERA's format is primarily talk shows and other programming from National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Radio International (PRI), with BBC World Service broadcasts airing overnight. Until the autumn of 2005, locally produced shows included Abby Goldstein's Lone Star Saturday Night, a show highlighting Texas music and musicians; and a weekday talk show, The Glenn Mitchell Show. But the discontinuation of Goldstein's show and Glenn Mitchell's death on November 20, 2005 reduced regular local programming to the Sunday-night music program 90.1 at Night.

Soon after, Mitchell's two-hour talk-show slot was revived as a one-hour show entitled The Talk Show and is produced in a similar manner to Glenn's version, with a team of new hosts. Starting in November 2006, the program was resurrected as "Think", a two-hour Monday-Thursday interview program hosted by Krys Boyd. On Fridays, Glenn's ever-popular "Anything You Ever Wanted To Know", a listener-driven trivia program, is hosted for one hour by show producer Jeff Whittington.

For more than 30 years, Mitchell had hosted an annual 12-hour Glenn Mitchell's Christmas Blockbuster, which featured the host's extensive archive of holiday-related music, interviews, and stories. Special edited versions of the Christmas show were aired in 2005 and 2006.

[edit] Funding

Like other public radio stations in the United States, KERA broadcasts extensive on-air pledge drives in order to raise monetary contributions from listenership to part-pay for programs and operations. The remainder comes from government and corporate sponsorship. Sponsors are noted on air in the form of abbreviated commercials.