KGOU

KGOU
City Norman, Oklahoma
Broadcast area Oklahoma City Metroplex
Branding KGOU
Slogan "Your NPR Source"
Frequency 106.3 MHz
First air date 1970 as KGOU
Format NPR News/Talk/Jazz music/Blues music
ERP 6,000 watts
HAAT 88.7 meters (291 ft)
Class A
Facility ID 69369
Callsign meaning OU is the abbreviation for the University of Oklahoma
Owner University of Oklahoma
Webcast http://kgou.org/listen-live
Website http://www.kgou.org

KGOU is a National Public Radio member News/Talk/Jazz music/Blues music radio station serving the Oklahoma City area and towns in Pontotoc, Seminole and Grady counties.[1] It is licensed to the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma. It is operated by OU's College of Continuing Education (OU Outreach), with studios in Copeland Hall on the OU campus. The staff consists of ten full-time and five part-time employees.

The station operates four full-power satellites: KROU (105.7 FM) in Spencer, KWOU (88.1 FM) in Woodward, KOUA (91.9 FM) in Ada, Oklahoma, and KQOU (89.1 FM) in Clinton, Oklahoma. It also operates translators K276ET (103.1 FM) in Seminole, K250AU (97.9 FM) in Ada, K295BL (106.9 FM) in Chickasha and K286BZ (105.1 FM) in Shawnee.

The Clinton facility was added in December 2017, when Cameron University transferred its license for KCCU-FM to KGOU. The move expands KGOU's listener base to 32 counties, nearly all in Central, Western and Southwestern Oklahoma. The new call sign for the Clinton transmitter is KQOU.[2]

History

KGOU was originally licensed as a commercial rock music station to the University of Oklahoma in 1970, broadcasting at 106.3 FM. OU applied for a non-commercial Class A license and switched the station's format to NPR news and talk on New Year's Day, 1983. The studios were originally located in Kaufman Hall on the OU campus.

The station's repeater network began more or less out of necessity. KGOU's signal was spotty at best in most of Oklahoma City because it had to protect what is now KTUZ-FM at nearby 106.7. To solve this problem, the university received a license for a repeater station that would better cover the northern suburbs. This station, KROU, officially signed on June 28, 1993. It was the first in a network of repeater stations that cover much of central and western Oklahoma.

KGOU's format is primarily news/talk on weekdays, with jazz, blues, and world music programs on weekends, broadcasting programs from NPR, PRI and other public radio networks alongside locally produced news and music programming.

KGOU renovated space in Copeland Hall on the OU campus in 2006 and moved its broadcasting studios that fall.

Translators

Call signFrequency
(MHz)		City of licenseFacility
ID		ERP
W		Height
m (ft)		ClassFCC info
KROU105.7 MHzSpencer, Oklahoma691751,600194.6 m (638 ft)AFCC
KWOU88.1 MHzWoodward, Oklahoma17286723,500224.1 m (735 ft)C1FCC
KOUA91.9 MHzAda, Oklahoma1736731,50081.9 m (269 ft)AFCC
KQOU89.1 MHzClinton, Oklahoma12243640,000193 m (633 ft)C1FCC
K276ET103.1 MHzSeminole, Oklahoma14158025059.9 m (197 ft)DFCC
K250AU97.9 MHzAda, Oklahoma14159925029.9 m (98 ft)DFCC
K295BL106.9 MHzChickasha, Oklahoma14168925028.5 m (94 ft)DFCC
K286BZ105.1 MHzShawnee, Oklahoma141589140117 m (384 ft)DFCC

References

  1. ↑ "KGOU." Accessed December 23, 2017.
  2. ↑ Pryor, Dick. "KGOU adds Clinton transmitter." KGOU. December 6, 2017. Accessed December 23, 2017.

Coordinates: 35°17′22″N 97°21′31″W / 35.2895°N 97.3586°W / 35.2895; -97.3586

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