The indie public radio station went on the public sale block earlier this month.
(Trent Nelson | Salt Lake Tribune file photograph) An indication on the workplaces of KCPW pronounces a necessity for donations to maintain the radio station on the air, in Salt Lake Metropolis, Saturday, June 28, 2014. Public broadcasting entities KUER and NPR Utah, each primarily based on the College of Utah, introduced on Oct. 25, 2023, that they’re shopping for the license for 88.3.
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A brand new proprietor is buying KCPW-FM 88.3, and it’ll stay a public radio station.
Actually, it is going to be operated by Utah’s two largest names in public broadcasting: NPR Utah/KUER-FM 90.1 and PBS Utah/KUED-Channel 7.
“We’re uniquely positioned to maintain this spot on the dial regionally owned and in public service,” mentioned KUER/KUED government director Maria O’Mara in an announcement. “And our intention is to develop that service for a extra numerous and youthful viewers.”
Nonprofit KCPW has gone by a collection of funding crises because it signed on the air in 1992. In 2008, the station was bought by Wasatch Public Media, which was shaped to function it. In September, Wasatch Public Media introduced that it had put the station up on the market.
No buy worth was introduced, however the minimal bid was $350,000.
The Federal Communications Fee should approve the switch of KCPW’s broadcast license earlier than the sale might be accomplished. That’s anticipated no later than April 30.
As soon as the sale is full, there shall be modifications at KCPW, which can change to a “bilingual format of music and information,” based on the brand new house owners. Programming shall be equipped by Radio Bilingüe, a Fresno, California-based nonprofit and distributor of public radio programming in Spanish. Radio Bilingüe programming has been airing on a KUER subchannel since Might.
Regionally produced reveals like “Behind the Headlines” (which options staffers from The Salt Lake Tribune), “Each Sides of the Aisle” and “Jazz Time with Steve Williams” (which beforehand aired on KUER for greater than 30 years) will air on Logan-based Utah Public Radio.
“As our native inhabitants continues to develop and diversify, you will need to us to supply an inclusive, bilingual platform for the voices and tales that make up our wealthy heritage and that propel Utah ahead as a stronger, extra related state,” PBS Utah advisory board member Jennifer Tarazon mentioned in an announcement.
Former KUER host Edgar Zúñiga, a member of the PBS Utah advisory board, mentioned he seems to be ahead “to our comunidades, our communities, coming collectively to tell new programming,” and added that “that is an thrilling time for public media in Utah and as a Colombian-American who grew up on this state I couldn’t be extra thrilled.”
