KCPR
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| City of license | San Luis Obispo, California |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | San Luis Obispo County, California |
| Branding | "Independent" |
| Slogan | Keep It To the Left |
| Frequency | 91.3 MHz |
| First air date | 1968 |
| Format | Campus radio |
| ERP | 310 watts |
| HAAT | 432 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 8324 |
| Callsign meaning | K Cal Poly Radio |
| Owner | California Polytechnic State University |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | kcpr.org |
KCPR is a non-profit freeform college radio station at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo), San Luis Obispo, California. Its operating frequency is 91.3 MHz FM. KCPR also streams its programming online 24 hours a day.[1]
KCPR's first broadcast occurred with a small 2-watt transmitter in the Fall of 1968; according to station lore, the first words spoken on-air were, "Is this the damn switch?"[2] not "Christ, are we on the air?" as it is sometimes reported.[3] Weird Al Yankovic was a volunteer DJ there when he was an undergraduate architecture student at the university. Yankovic recorded his iconic parody song "My Bologna" in the bathroom that stands across the hall from the station's original location on the second floor of the Journalism Building on the Cal Poly campus.[4] He would later return to the station for an interview during the 1990s, where he recorded a station ID that can still be heard playing today.[5] After 39 years of continuous operation, KCPR moved to a new studio in the Summer of 2008.[4]
Long-time KCPR DJ and Cal Poly professor Jim Cushing describes the station's musical philosophy thus: “to provide people with a blend of music that they will not find on any other station. To remind people that the musical culture belongs to them, that the musical transaction is not some glamorous MTV production.”[4]
KCPR is currently known as Cal Poly Radio, and previously "Burnt Dog Radio," an axiom that is reflected in one of the station's early logo designs that featured the RCA Victor dog.
Notable programs that have anchored the KCPR program schedule for years include Club 91, The Red Spot, and Lucid Hour
Notable KCPR Alumni
- Weird Al Yankovic[6]
- Eric Schwartz[7]
- Bruce Flohr[8]
- Jim Dee[9]
- Neal Losey[10]
- Stacey Anderson[11]
- David Kerley[12]
References
- ↑ KCPR Online Stream
- ↑ [Brad Brown, personal interview]
- ↑ [Brad Brown, personal interview]
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- ↑ KCPR Weird Al Promo
- ↑ http://www.radio-info.com/news/kcprs-favorite-son-weird-al-helps-dedicate-new-facilities
- ↑ http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1398&context=calpoly_magazine
- ↑ http://mustangnews.net/mustangs-tune-into-the-music-industry/
- ↑ http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/san-luis-obispo/palm-theatre-san-luis-obispo-jim-dee.html
- ↑ http://www.newtimesslo.com/cover/1444/a-long-strange-trip/
- ↑ http://mustangnews.net/thestateofthereunion/
- ↑ http://www.calpolylink.com/s/699/alumni/index.aspx?sid=699&gid=1&pgid=1209
External links
- KCPR's Official Web Site
- KCPR from 1975 to 1977
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KCPR
- Radio-Locator information on KCPR
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KCPR
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