KXOT-FM

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KXOT
City of license	Tacoma, Washington
Broadcast area	Seattle metropolitan area
First air date	August 2006
Frequency	91.7 (MHz)
Format	NPR
ERP	23,000 watts
Class	C2
Callsign meaning	Experience Of Tacoma (from KEXP)
Owner	Public Radio Capital
Website	http://www.kxot.org

KXOT-FM (91.7 MHz) is a National Public Radio broadcaster in Tacoma, Washington. It is programmed by KUOW-FM under an agreement with Public Radio Capital.

[edit] History

The station began as KBTC in the 1970s. Bates Technical College owned public radio station KBTC-FM until 2004, when it was sold to Public Radio Capital, which then licensed the frequency to KEXP. KEXP wished to extend their signal into the South Sound, and simulcast its regular program on the station, changing its call letters to KXOT.

On 3 November 2005, KEXP announced it was terminating operation on KXOT at the end of the calendar year due to a financial crunch. However, KEXP continued to simulcast on KXOT into 2006 while Public Radio Capital looked for a new lessee. On May 24, 2006, KUOW announced it signed a new lease with PRC and would begin broadcasting its programming on the frequency in the summer of 2006.

Unlike KEXP, KUOW broadcasts programming on KXOT it has no room for on the main station. Among these programs are On Point, News and Notes, and live call-in shows Talk Of The Nation (which KUOW dropped for Day to Day) and The Diane Rehm Show.

KUOW also stated that they would be expanding KXOT's effective radiated power, though they have not stated to what wattage it will be raised to or what area the new signal would cover. KXOT returned to broadcast over-the-air in August 2006.