KWUR

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KWUR is a radio station in St. Louis, Missouri located at 90.3 MHz FM. KWUR was founded on July 4, 1976 at Washington University in St. Louis, and represents one of the last remaining independent and fully student managed college radio stations in the United States.

Commercial free programming including rock, surf-rock, garage-rock, hip-hop, punk, metal, world, zydeco, goth-industrial, classical, reggae, jazz, blues, talk, experimental, and Washington University sports are all represented under KWUR's freeform format.

Although KWUR is only a class D FM station with a 10 watt effective radiated power, Internet streaming at 128 kbit/s and 24 kbit/s MP3 format supports a dedicated student and national following.

History

KWUR originated as a small carrier current station KFRH serving the dormitories at Washington University in St. Louis in 1961. In 1968 freshman Beau Harris single-handedly broadcast for over 136 consecutive hours establishing a new collegiate record and helping to increase the station's budget. KFRH ceased broadcasting in the spring of 1974 while its staff worked toward establishing an FM station. On July 4, 1976 KWUR 90.3 FM began broadcasting at 10 watts on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. In 1991, in response to the lack of published music writing on campus, KWUR started producing a music magazine called Sample. Based at KWUR, Sample would become the outlet for record reviews and numerous interviews until its end in 1999. In 1998, KWUR became one of the first college stations to offer an online stream through RealAudio.

Some notable artists KWUR has interviewed (often well before their mainstream successes):

Media

[Live audio stream] (128 kbit/s mp3 format)

External links

FM radio stations in the St. Louis market

By frequency: 88.1 | 89.1 | | 90.3 | 90.7 | 91.5 | 92.3 | 93.7 | 94.7 | 95.5 | 96.3 | 97.1 | 98.1 | 99.1 | 100.3 | 100.7 | 101.1 | 102.5 | 103.3 | 104.1 | 104.5 | 104.9 | 105.7 | 106.5 | 107.7

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