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Title
Radio K
Description
Radio K is a service of the College of Continuing Education at the University of Minnesota. Funding for Radio K comes in part from the University and from University students through their student activities fee.
History
Radio transmissions at the university date to 1912, when a professor named F. W. Springer began experimenting with broadcasts, though he probably just used a spark gap transmitter. Activities were suspended by World War I, but electrical engineering professor C. M. Jansky, Jr. (the older brother of Karl Jansky) was doing broadcasting again by 1920. He had previously been at the University of Wisconsin, where he had helped at station 9XM (soon to be called WHA). Jansky used the call sign 9XI and provided reports on farm markets and weather. In February 1922, when a heavy snowstorm knocked out newswire services into the region, personnel at the Minneapolis Tribune convinced operators to help them retrieve the day's news through a roundabout series of amateur radio relays.
Focus on education
The University received the first AM license in the state on January 13, 1922 for the call sign WLB (the same day as Wisconsin's WHA), and programming was extended to include lectures, concerts, and football games. In the 1930s and 1940s, the station broadcast a considerable amount of educational material and was used for distance learning — a practice that continued into the 1990's. The call sign was changed to KUOM by 1945. The station had a paid staff, unlike a smaller campus-only station that emerged later.
Languages
English
Address
- 330 21st Ave S, 610, Rarig Center
- Minneapolis MN 55455 US
Contact
- 770 Radio K
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- +1 612 625 3500, Fax: +1 612 625 2112
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