KERA is the National Public Radio

NPR

NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...

 affiliate station for North Texas. Based in Dallas, Texas the station's main transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas

Cedar Hill, Texas

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 with translators that serve Tyler

Tyler, Texas

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 (K261CW, 100.1 FM), the Sherman

Sherman, Texas

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/Denison

Denison, Texas

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 area (K257EV, 99.3 FM), and Wichita Falls

Wichita Falls, Texas

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 (K202DR, 88.3 FM). It was also rebroadcast on the Public, educational, and government access

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 (PEG) cable tv channel, Irving Community Television Network during its off-air

Off-the-air

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 times prior to 2009.

The station was established on July 11, 1974. The station's call letters, which are said to represent a "new era in broadcasting," are shared with Dallas public television station KERA-TV

KERA-TV

KERA-TV, virtual channel 13 , is the PBS member station in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Licensed to Dallas, it broadcasts from a transmitter located in Cedar Hill. However, it also serves as the default PBS station for the Abilene, San Angelo and Tyler/Longview/Lufkin/Nacogdoches markets, as...

 channel 13; both are owned by North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc., a non-profit corporation registered in the state of Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

. While there is cross-promotion

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 between stations, each operates its own pledge drive

Fundraising

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s.

Programming format

KERA 90.1 produces topic driven local radio news programs, spot news and music programs mixed with national news, talk shows and radio magazine programs from sources that include National Public Radio (NPR), Public Radio International (PRI), American Public Media (APM) and the BBC World Service. It also rebroadcasts PBS NewsHour in audio format.

Local programs include Think, hosted by Krys Boyd and CEO, hosted by Lee Cullum. Jeff Whittington hosts the call in radio talk show Anything you Ever Wanted to Know. Think and CEO also each have television versions, seen on KERA-TV.

The station used to air the locally produced music program 90.1 at Night hosted by Paul Slavens, which airs Sunday nights from 8:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. The program was moved to their newly acquired sister station KKXT and was renamed The Paul Slavens Show.

Funding

Like other noncommercial stations in the United States, KERA broadcasts on-air pledge drives to raise money to pay for programming. The majority of KERA's funding comes from membership pledge drives. Additional funding is accrued through corporate sponsorship and underwriting announcements. Only 10-percent of the station's funding is government supported.

External links

; see also listing with map and translators at Recnet

• KERA Radio
• Listen to KERA online via Windows Media Audio
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   and MP3
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  streams.