KRCU

"KSEF" redirects here. For the airport near Sebring, Florida assigned the ICAO code KSEF, see Sebring Regional Airport.

KRCU/KSEF

City of license	Cape Girardeau/Sainte Genevieve, Missouri
Broadcast area	Cape Girardeau, Sikeston, etc./Missouri's Parkland
Branding	KRCU
Frequency	90.9/88.9 (MHz)
First air date	March 3, 1976/September, 2005
Format	Public radio
ERP	6,500/20,000 watts
HAAT	212/205 meters
Class	C2/C2
Facility ID	61212/90232
Transmitter coordinates	37°24′17.00″N 89°34′6.00″W / 37.4047222°N 89.5683333°W / 37.4047222; -89.5683333 37°47′51.00″N 90°33′38.00″W / 37.7975000°N 90.5605556°W / 37.7975000; -90.5605556
Callsign meaning	K River City University/K S outhEast in Farmington (former city of licence)
Former callsigns	none/980306MC (1998-2005)
Affiliations	National Public Radio, Public Radio International, American Public Media
Owner	Southeast Missouri State University (Board of Regents, Southeast Missouri State University)
Webcast	listen live
Website	krcu.org

KRCU at Southeast Missouri State University includes two stations that provide in-depth news and quality music programming to nearly 1.9 million people in its service regions of Southeast Missouri, Southern Illinois and the Parkland.

KRCU is located in and licensed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on 90.9 FM, and is a 6,500 watt station. KRCU's signal covers: Cape Girardeau, Jackson, Sikeston, Marble Hill, Perryville and several communities in southern Illinois.

It signed on with 10 watts of power as a college station in March 1976. In 1981 it increased power to 100 watts and in 1988 began transitioning to a public radio format. In 1992 KRCU increased power again, to 6,000 watts.

KSEF 88.9 FM is located in Farmington, Missouri and is a 20,000 watt station. KSEF's signal covers: Farmington, Park Hills, Ste. Genevieve, Fredericktown, Potosi, Festus and reaches into South County St. Louis. KSEF is a repeater of KRCU; it is licensed to Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, on 88.9 FM, and signed on in September 2005. KSEF was previously licensed to Farmington, Missouri until changed in 2010 to the nearby city of Sainte Genevieve.

KRCU broadcasts 24 hours a day from facilities located on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau and provides practical broadcast experience for students of the University.

KRCU is affiliated with NPR and APM. These programming services provide many public radio favorites like All Things Considered, Morning Edition, The Diane Rehm Show and A Prairie Home Companion.

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Radio stations in the Cape Girardeau–Sikeston–Jackson, Missouri market

By FM frequency	88.5 88.9 90.5 90.9 91.5 92.3 92.9 93.9 96.5 97.3 97.9 98.9 99.3 99.7 100.3 100.7 102.9 103.3 104.1 104.7 106.1 107.1 107.9 107.9

By AM frequency	960 1170 1220 1350 1400 1490 1520 1550

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400 162.550

By callsign	K222BY K255AW K259BB K262AX K277BJ K300BU KAIA KAPE KBHI KBXB KCHR KCGQ-FM KCGR KEZS-FM KGIR KGKS KGMO KHEZ-LP KHIS KJXX KLSC KMHM KRCU KREZ KRHW KSIM KWKZ KXI93 KYRX KZIM WBEL-FM WKIB WKRO WXL47

Defunct	KDMC-LP (103.7 FM)

Nearby radio markets Jackson, TN Jonesboro Marion-Carbondale Memphis Paducah St. Louis See also List of radio stations in Missouri List of radio stations in Illinois

NPR member stations in the state of Missouri

Stations	Branson KSMS-FM Cape Girardeau KRCU Chillicothe KRNW Columbia KBIA Columbia KOPN Kansas City KCUR-FM Maryville KXCV Rolla KMST Springfield KSMU St. Louis KWMU Ste. Genevieve KSEF Warrensburg KTBG West Plains KSMW

See also List of NPR stations

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Missouri

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