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KOCV (FM)
Encyclopedia
KOCV is a listener-supported public radio station in the Odessa, Texas
market, and is owned and operated by Odessa College
. It is the National Public Radio member station for West Texas
. KOCV-FM operates at an assigned frequency of 91.3MHz with an effective radiated power of 5,000 watts from its transmitter on the campus of Odessa College in Odessa, Texas. The station operates under the assumed name of Permian Basin Public Radio.
, Jazz
, Blues
, World Music
, Celtic music
, Folk music
, and Bluegrass music
. The on-air program hosts are Odessa College students and volunteers, including bluegrass legend Bill Myrick
.
Odessa, Texas
Odessa is a city in and the county seat of Ector County, Texas, United States. It is located primarily in Ector County, although a small portion of the city extends into Midland County. Odessa's population was 99,940 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Odessa, Texas Metropolitan...
market, and is owned and operated by Odessa College
Odessa College
Odessa College is a public two-year junior college based in Odessa, Texas, USA serving the people of Ector County and the Permian Basin. It opened in 1952 and currently enrolls about 5,000 annually in its university-parallel and occupational/technical courses, and 11,000 students annually in its...
. It is the National Public Radio member station for West Texas
West Texas
West Texas is a vernacular term applied to a region in the southwestern quadrant of the United States that primarily encompasses the arid and semi-arid lands in the western portion of the state of Texas....
. KOCV-FM operates at an assigned frequency of 91.3MHz with an effective radiated power of 5,000 watts from its transmitter on the campus of Odessa College in Odessa, Texas. The station operates under the assumed name of Permian Basin Public Radio.
Programming
KOCV-FM's format is primarily news and talk from National Public Radio and locally-produced music content. Genres of music played by the station include Classical MusicClassical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
, Jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
, Blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
, World Music
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
, Celtic music
Celtic music
Celtic music is a term utilised by artists, record companies, music stores and music magazines to describe a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe...
, Folk music
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
, and Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...
. The on-air program hosts are Odessa College students and volunteers, including bluegrass legend Bill Myrick
Bill Myrick
Billie E. Myrick, known as Bill Myrick , is an American Country musician, originally from Simpson County in south central Mississippi but a long-time resident of Odessa in West Texas.-Family:...
.
See also
- KPBT-TVKPBT-TVKPBT-TV is a public television station located in Odessa, Texas, broadcasting locally on digital channel 38 as a PBS member station. The station is owned by Permian Basin Public Television, Inc.The station signed on March 24, 1986 as KOCV-TV...
(PBSPublic Broadcasting ServiceThe Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
member station originally owned by Odessa College)