KOSU
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- For the Finish work, see Kossu.
KOSU 91.7 FM is an NPR
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...
radio station
Radio station
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operated by Oklahoma State University, with studios on OSU's campus in Stillwater, Oklahoma
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Stillwater is a city in north-central Oklahoma at the intersection of U.S. 177 and State Highway 51. It is the county seat of Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 45,688. Stillwater is the principal city of the Stillwater Micropolitan Statistical...
. It is one of several NPR stations serving the Oklahoma City area. The station's programming also airs on full-time satellite KOSN 107.5 FM in Ketchum
Ketchum, Oklahoma
Ketchum is a town in Craig County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 286 at the 2000 census.-History:Ketchum was named for a prominent Methodist minister named James Ketchum who helped found the town in 1898...
, which serves the Tulsa area.
History
KOSU began broadcasting in 1955 and was a charter member of NPR. Shortly after joining NPR, the station built a new tower roughly halfway between Oklahoma City and Tulsa, so that each city got grade B coverage and most of the suburban areas got city-grade coverage.In September 2004, KOSU moved to a new 1,100-foot tower near Guthrie
Guthrie, Oklahoma
Guthrie is a city in and the county seat of Logan County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City Metroplex. The population was 9,925 at the 2000 census.Guthrie was the territorial and later the first state capital for Oklahoma...
that gave it primary coverage of Oklahoma City. This gave the capital full service from an NPR station for the first time since 1996, when KCSC
KCSC
KCSC is a classical music radio station serving the Oklahoma City area and is owned by University of Central Oklahoma.-History:KCSC was originally a student-run classical music station when it signed on in 1966. KCSC adopted its name from when the university was known as Central State College...
dropped most NPR programming. While KROU
KROU
KROU is an NPR/Jazz music radio station serving the Oklahoma City area and is owned by University of Oklahoma.-History:KROU arose out of OU's efforts to expand KGOU's reach throughout the Oklahoma City area. KGOU's signal was spotty at best in northern Oklahoma City because it had to protect what...
/KGOU
KGOU
KGOU is an NPR/Jazz music Blues music radio station serving the Oklahoma City area and is owned by the University of Oklahoma.-History:...
had nominally been Oklahoma City's flagship NPR station since then, the two stations' combined power is spotty at best in most of the city. The station also added improved service to Tulsa with the purchase of commercial station KGND in Ketchum in September 2004 by Public Radio Capital, which entered an LMA
LMA
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with Oklahoma State University to simulcast the KOSU signal. On the same day KOSU moved to its new tower, KGND changed its calls to KOSN.
In March 2006, KOSU added two new translators in the Tulsa area, at 101.9 FM in Okmulgee
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Okmulgee is a city in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population at the 2010 census was 12,321 a loss of 5.4 percent since the 2000 census figure of 13,022. It has been the capital of the Muscogee Nation since the United States Civil War. Okmulgee means "boiling waters" in the Creek...
(owned by PRC) and 107.3 FM in Bixby
Bixby, Oklahoma
Bixby is a city in Tulsa and Wagoner counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and is a suburb of Tulsa. The population was 13,336 at the 2000 census and 20,884 in the 2010 census. It is nicknamed "The Garden Spot of Oklahoma" for its rich agrarian heritage...
(owned directly by OSU).