KRPS (FM)

KRPS

City	Pittsburg, Kansas
Broadcast area	Four State Area
Slogan	Your world, in concert
Frequency	89.9 MHz
Repeaters	K274AJ 102.7 Bartlesville, Oklahoma
First air date	1984
Format	Public Radio
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	305.0 meters
Class	C
Facility ID	52740
Transmitter coordinates	37°18′44.00″N 94°48′58.00″W / 37.3122222°N 94.8161111°W / 37.3122222; -94.8161111
Callsign meaning	Radio Pittsburg State
Former callsigns	KJWR (1984-1988)
Affiliations	National Public Radio, Public Radio International
Owner	Pittsburg State University
Website	krps.org

KRPS (89.9 FM) is the National Public Radio member station for the Four State Area in the United States. It is licensed to Pittsburg, Kansas, and owned by Pittsburg State University. Studios are located in Shirk Hall on the PSU campus, while the transmitter is located two miles south of Weir, Kansas. It is one of the few NPR stations to be the primary member for two markets--Pittsburg and Joplin, Missouri (though they are a single television market). It operates a translator at 102.7 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma (in the Tulsa market).

KRPS is the smallest full NPR member in Kansas, and one of the few full NPR members that does not offer live streaming.

History

Before KRPS signed on, the only source of NPR programming in the area was a translator of KSMU in Joplin. In 1977, just after Pittsburg State gained university status, the Department of Speech and Theater proposed to build a 10-watt station, but it was rejected by the Kansas Board of Regents due to a U.S. Federal Communications Commission freeze on new 10-watt applications. Later in 1977, Pittsburg State and the University of Kansas proposed to jointly operate a public radio station, but that proposal died due to a failure to meet Corporation for Public Broadcasting requirements for public funding. In 1984, Pittsburg State supported a proposal by KU to build translators in Pittsburg and Joplin, but that proposal collapsed when KU was unable to come up with funding.

When Donald W. Wilson became president in 1983, he launched a concerted effort to build a public radio station for one of the few areas of the country without public radio. After a two-year fundraising effort, Pittsburg State decided to buy KJWR, a small 380-watt educational station in Weir and operated by the Weir Public Broadcasting Foundation since 1984. The license was transferred on September 4, 1987 and the call letters changed to KRPS. It would have been KPSU, but those calls were already in use by the student radio station at Oklahoma Panhandle State University.

The station was set to go on the air on April 29, 1988. However, it looked like that goal would not be met after rain moved into the area in early April. KRPS signed on for the first time at 4 pm on April 29.

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Pittsburg State University

Academics	Schools College of Arts & Sciences Kelce College of Business College of Education College of Technology Location Pittsburg, KS (Main Campus) Lenexa, Kansas (KC Metro Center) Paola, KS Salina, KS (Salina Area Technical College) People Alumni

Athletics	Football Seasons Northwest Missouri State Rivalry Mascot Gus the Gorilla Facilities Brandenburg Field at Carnie Smith Stadium John Lance Arena

Misc.	Media KRPS (FM) Research Center for Research, Evaluation and Awareness of Dyslexia

Established: 1903 – Endowment: $69.414 million – Students: 7,244 (Fall 2015)

Radio stations in the Pittsburg, Kansas market

By FM frequency	88.3 89.9 93.5 95.3 96.9 99.1 100.7 101.5 103.9 104.3 104.7 105.5 107.1

By AM frequency	690 860 1340 1370 1460 1540 1600

By callsign	KBJQ KCAR-FM KGGF KIKS-FM KINZ KIOL KJML KKOW KKOW-FM KKOY KKOY-FM KLKC (AM) KLKC-FM KMDO KOMB KRPS KSEK KSEK-FM KSHQ KVCY

Nearby radio markets Fayetteville Joplin Kansas City Springfield Tulsa Wichita See also List of radio stations in Kansas

Radio stations in the Joplin, Missouri market

By FM frequency	88.7 89.5 89.9 90.7 91.7 92.5 93.9 95.1 97.9 99.7 101.7 102.5 103.5 104.3 105.3 106.3 107.1

By AM frequency	690 860 910 990 1100 1230 1310 1340 1420 1450 1490 1560

By callsign	K292FX KBTN KBTN-FM KCAR-FM KCKJ KDMO KGGF KHST KIXQ KJMK KJML KKLL KKOW KMOQ KMXL KNEO KOBC KQYX KRMO KRPS KSEK KSYN KVIS KWXD KXDG KXMS KZRG KZYM WMBH

Nearby radio markets Fayetteville Kansas City Pittsburg Springfield Tulsa See also List of radio stations in Missouri

NPR member stations in the state of Kansas

Kansas Public Radio stations	Emporia KANH Lawrence KANU Olsburg KANV

High Plains Public Radio stations	Garden City KANZ Hays KZAN Hill City KZNA

Radio Kansas stations	Great Bend KHCT Hutchinson KHCC-FM Salina KHCD

Other Stations	Pittsburg KRPS Wichita KMUW

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 Kansas

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