KDNA

KDNA
City of license Yakima, Washington
Broadcast area Yakima, Washington
Slogan Radio Cadena La Voz del Campesino
Frequency 91.9 MHz
First air date 1979
Format Spanish Variety
ERP 18,500 watts
HAAT 280 meters
Class C1
Facility ID 49729
Transmitter coordinates 46°31′42.00″N 120°31′3.00″W / 46.5283333°N 120.5175000°W
Owner Northwest Communities Education Center
Website kdna.org

KDNA (91.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish Variety format including music (norteña, accordion, banda, and mariachi), children's programming, local and international news and a unique show each weekday morning highlighting employment opportunities in the Yakima area, all in Spanish.[1] Licensed to Yakima, Washington, USA, the station serves the Yakima area. The station is currently owned by Northwest Communities Education Center,[2] and has a building in Granger, Washington.

History

Radio KDNA is the nation's first full-time Spanish-language non-commercial radio station, and the first Spanish language public radio station in Washington state.[3] Known as "la voz del campesino" (the voice of the farm worker) Radio KDNA is the first radio station in Eastern Washington to produce programming to the Spanish-speaking population of Eastern Washington.[4]

Former usage

KDNA formerly were the call-letters of a listener-supported station in St. Louis, Missouri at 102.5 MHz from 1968 to 1973. That frequency in that locale is now occupied by CBS-owned KEZK, while the programming descendant of the earlier KDNA is KDHX at 88.1 MHz.

References

  1. ↑ Oscar Rosales Castañeda (2009), Radio KDNA: The Voice of the Farmworker, 1975-1985, Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project – via University of Washington
  2. ↑ "KDNA Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ Valdes, Manuel (May 22, 2009), Strike leads to Wash. Spanish radio conflict: Washington state's first Spanish-language public radio station, a key source of information for the Latino community in the Yakima Valley, is scrambling to fill air time amid a dispute between a new station director and her newly unionized employees, Associated Press – via The Seattle Times
  4. ↑ Radio KDNA goes on the air in the Yakima Valley in December 1979, HistoryLink

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