KWUR

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KWUR-FM
City of license Clayton, Missouri
Broadcast area Greater St. Louis
Slogan St. Louis Underground Radio
First air date July 4, 1976
Frequency 90.3 (MHz)
Format Freeform & College radio
ERP 10 watts
Class D
Callsign meaning K
Washington
University
Radio
Owner Washington University in St. Louis
Website http://www.kwur.com

KWUR is a radio station in St. Louis, Missouri located at 90.3 MHz FM. KWUR was founded on July 4, 1976 at Washington University in St. Louis, and represents one of the last remaining independent and fully student managed college radio stations in the United States.

Commercial free programming including rock, surf-rock, garage-rock, hip-hop, punk, metal, world, goth-industrial, classical, reggae, jazz, blues, electronica, talk, experimental, and Washington University sports are all represented under KWUR's freeform format.

Although KWUR is only a class D FM station with a 10 watt effective radiated power, its location on the Washington University campus allows reception over the lively and focal Delmar Loop. Additionally, live Internet audio streaming supports a dedicated student, national, and global following.

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[edit] History

KWUR originated as a small carrier current station KFRH serving the dormitories at Washington University in St. Louis in 1961. In 1968 freshman Beau Harris single-handedly broadcast for over 136 consecutive hours establishing a new collegiate record and helping to increase the station's budget. KFRH ceased broadcasting in the spring of 1974 while its staff worked toward establishing an FM station. On July 4, 1976 KWUR 90.3 FM began broadcasting at 10 watts on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. In 1991, in response to the lack of published music writing on campus, KWUR started producing a music magazine called Sample. Based at KWUR, Sample would become the outlet for record reviews and numerous interviews until its end in 1999.

In 1998, KWUR became one of the first college stations to offer a live online stream (at the time in RealAudio format). The now defunct Nibblebox.com, who were once the central body of college radio, gave KWUR 9 awards for best shows in their respective timeslots. In Fall 2003, KWUR won the critic's choice from the Riverfront Times for the Best Radio Station in St. Louis.

In 2005, KWUR underwent a complete renovation of its studio and technology. In 2006, KWUR began official rebroadcasts of Free Speech Radio News.

[edit] Computing

KWUR's internal systems run entirely GNU/Linux and provide an array of free (as in freedom) support software written in PHP and Ruby such as an automated scheduling and show application management system, playlist tracker, single click live remote broadcasting from anywhere in the world, automatic archival of live and remote content, and a fully programmable robotic DJ. As part of a larger KWUR initiative to encourge grass-roots and community radio, on January 3rd, 2007, KWUR released all of these tools via sourceforge.net under the GPL licensed project Megatron Deamon. In addition to its support software, KWUR utilizies the dynamic power of GNU/Linux systems to consolidate hardware and cut costs via fully functional and anonymous diskless kiosks. KWUR uses OGG Vorbis to encode audio content internally, though some of its digital archive still containts MP3 data.

[edit] Interviews

Some notable artists KWUR has interviewed (often well before their mainstream successes):

[edit] Media

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FM radio stations in the St. Louis market (Arbitron #20)

By frequency: 88.1 | 89.1 | 89.7 | 90.3 | 90.7 | 91.5 | 92.3 | 93.3 | 93.7 | 94.7 | 95.5 | 96.3 | 97.1 | 98.1 | 99.1 | 99.9 | 100.3 | 100.7 | 101.1 | 102.5 | 103.3 | 104.1 | 104.5 | 104.9 | 105.7 | 106.5 | 107.7

By callsign: KATZ | KYMC | KCLC | KDHX | KEZK | KFAV | KFNS | KFTK | KFUO | KIHT | KLOU | KMJM | KNSX | KPNT | KSD | KSHE | KSIV | KSLQ | KSLZ | KWMU | KWUR | KYKY | WARH | WFUN | WHHL | WIL | WMVN

Satellite Radio Local Traffic/Weather: XM Channel 218 | Sirius Channel 151

See also: St. Louis (FM) (AM)



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