It's a continuing headache for commercial radio stations -- how to get programming on new delivery technologies while also trying to generate any revenue from them to cover the costs. That's not a ...
Friends of 88.5 FM, a nonprofit community organization formed to preserve local National Public Radio affiliate KPLU, announced new call letters today. The new community-owned station will be called ...
Having gone north to find an outlet with which to increase the reach of its programming, KPLU-FM (88.5) now plans to go south to do the same thing. In the process it may be adding two stations, not ...
KPLU-FM (88.5) has named Paul Stankavich as its general manager. He succeeds Martin Neeb, who recently retired after 25 years at the NPR station. Stankavich, 60, is the president and general manager ...
The paperwork for the sale of KPLU-FM has made it to the FCC. Readers may recall Pacific Lutheran University was originally going to sell the station to University of Washington-licensed KUOW until ...
In June 2016, Pacific Lutheran University agreed to sell the KPLU radio station to a community group, cancelling KUOW Public Media’s agreement to buy it. The Freinds of 88.5 FM group that bought the ...
Regarding its sale of KPLU, Pacific Lutheran University says: "The reality is that there is a finite audience that is willing to fund public radio. ... We think it makes sense for the community to be ...
It's fall fund-raising season for public and community radio, as stations deal with both increased demand for information programming and a slumping economy in which to attempt to scavenge money. KUOW ...
If you stuck out an errant elbow on a recent Friday at 88.5 KPLU-FM’s Fourth Avenue studio, you were in danger of jabbing a high-level patron or worse, knocking a key on Anton Schwartz’s tenor ...