Frequency | 90.9MHz (HD Radio) |
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Programming | |
Format | Public radio |
Subchannels | HD2: Classical music |
Affiliations | NPR, PRX, APM |
Ownership | |
Owner | Texas A&M University |
History | |
First air date | March 30, 1977 |
Former frequencies | 90.3 MHz (1977–1985) |
Call sign meaning | Texas A&M University |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 65303 |
Class | C2 |
ERP | 32,000 watts |
HAAT | 104 m (341 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 30°37′47″N96°20′33″W / 30.62972°N 96.34250°W |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen live |
Website | KAMU-FM Online |
KAMU-FM (90.9 FM) is a public radio station in College Station, Texas, United States. It is owned and operated by Texas A&M University, and is a sister station to PBS member KAMU-TV (channel 15). The two stations share studios at the Moore Communications Center on the university's campus, and KAMU-FM's transmitter is located at adjacent Hensel Park.
KAMU-FM began broadcasting in 1977 with a primary function of a teaching the art of broadcast to Texas A&M students, local high school students and others interested in careers in the radio industry. Potential careers included broadcast news, radio announcing, production, audio engineering, sound, electronics, scriptwriting, audio documentary production, programming, promotion and marketing, syndication, and weather forecasting.
Don Simons was the first Station Manager for the National Public Radio-affiliated KAMU-FM. In 1977, he hired Sunny Nash as the station's first Program Director, whose duties included teaching radio skills to student personnel and others with interests in radio, and coordinating volunteers and other contributors. Nash had worked in news and public affairs at WTAW (AM) Country Radio while attending Texas A&M University, where in 1977, she became the first African American [1] journalism graduate in the school's history. Simons also hired Texas A&M University graduate Linda Lea as the station's first Traffic Director.
First KAMU-FM staff 1977:
Linda Lea created and produced Poetry Southwest, hosted by Paul Christianson, which featured local and regional poets and artists from around the state. A frequent contributor to National Public Radio programs, Sunny Nash created and produced the award-winning KAMU-FM classical music program Collector's Choice, hosted by Dr. Gilbert Plass, still airing currently in syndication.
Nash and Bob Rose created and co-hosted KAMU-FM's nationally syndicated series Classical Music from Festival Hill. All performances were recorded live in Roundtop, Texas. The performance lists included Round Top Festival Institute founder and pianist James Dick, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, chamber musician and Yo-Yo Ma accompanist Patricia Zander, pianist and conductor Leon Fleisher, violinist Young Uck Kim, and concertmaster Isidor Saslav. KAMU-FM festival staff included series co-creators and co-hosts Sunny Nash and Bob Rose, series engineer Mike Andrews, and project documentarian Nobutomi Shimamoto.
The radio station shares the same facility as KAMU-TV, at the Moore Communications Center.
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On March 30, 2007, it became the first HD Radio station in the Brazos Valley. [4]
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