Station Announcements

Thank you to all who pledged during our spring Super Thursday fund drive!

We are still slightly short of our goal, so if you meant to pledge - you still can! Pledge now!  

Solar outage time is here again. Twice a year, the sun moves into a position directly into the line of sight between an earth station and a satellite. When this happens, for a few minutes each day solar radiation may distort satellite signals, You maybe hear your radio signal becoming fuzzy, you might hear static, or the signal possibly become silent. This spring, the interruptions are most likely between February 28 and March 4, at about 10:38 AM each day.

You won’t have to do anything. Just wait a few minutes and your signal will be back to normal.

The replacement parts installed on Wednesday night at KZAZ are still not producing usable HD signals, so 91.7 continues to broadcast in FM, and the translator at 104.7 is still airing the NPR and Classical Music service.

While engineers are working with the transmitter manufacturer on the problematic parts, they are

   also trying to devise a workaround to bring the NPR News service to 104.7 as soon as possible.

All Things Considered host Thom Kokenge spent several happy years living in Ellensburg, and is very excited to go back there to meet Northwest Public Radio listeners, on Thursday February 28 and Friday March 1.

We are celebrating the 90th anniversary of Northwest Public Radio’s first station going on the air - December 10, 1922 from the campus of Washington State University.  KFAE (later changed to KWSC and then KWSU) 1250 AM is one of the oldest and largest university-owned radio stations in the United States. At the inaugural broadcast, among the stated goals of the station where: “…to provide an information and cultural service to a wide area of population”.  We are proud that 90 years later our core mission is unchanged.