CapRadio (Capital Public Radio) is the

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service of

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. It consists of two full-power stations and five repeaters, all members of

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. It is the NPR member for

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and much of the surrounding area, including Stockton and

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. The group is headquartered on Folsom Boulevard on the Sacramento State campus.

Stations

KXJZ KXJZ (90.9 FM) is a public radio station in Sacramento, California. It airs programming from National Public Radio (NPR) and other public radio producers and distributors, as well as locally produced news and public affairs programs. It also offe ...

(90.9 FM) in Sacramento airs news and talk programming from NPR, as well as jazz and blues programming on weekends. KXJZ's programming is repeated on

KUOP KUOP (91.3 FM) is an NPR-member radio station, licensed to Stockton, California, United States. The station is currently owned by California State University, Sacramento and is part of the news network of CapRadio (formerly Capital Public Radio). ...

in Stockton at 91.3 FM, KKTO in

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at 90.5 FM, and KQNC in Quincy at 88.1 FM. KKTO's signal also reaches

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and

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, giving much of northern Nevada a second choice for NPR programming alongside that area's flagship station,

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KXPR KXPR (88.9 FM) is a classical music-formatted radio station in the Sacramento, California, area. The station is closely linked to sister-station KXJZ (90.9 FM), and the two stations are known as Capital Public Radio (now CapRadio). Both stations ...

(88.9 FM) in Sacramento airs mostly classical music programming, and

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along with blues and jazz on weeknights and Sundays. It is also Sacramento's home for ''

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'' (formerly ''

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''). KXPR's programming is repeated on KXSR in Groveland at 91.7 FM (serving the central Sierra Nevada) and KXJS in Sutter at 88.7 FM.

History

Capital Public Radio traces its roots to KERS, a student radio station that signed on from Sacramento State in 1964. The 10-watt station grew in power to 5,000 watts by the late 1960s. However, a decade later, Sacramento was still without a public radio station, and Sacramento State embarked on a campaign to transform KERS into such an outlet. On April 2, 1979, KXPR signed on at 88.9 FM airing a mix of classical music, jazz, and NPR news programming. It originally operated at 20,000 watts. In 1984, it moved to 90.9 FM from a new, more powerful transmitter, operating at 50,000 watts. By 1985, it was the eighth most listened-to NPR station in the country.History page
at archive of Capital Public Radio Website Amid the expansion of NPR's schedule in the 1980s, Sacramento State sought and was granted a second station. That station, KXJZ, signed on in 1991 at 88.9 FM. By 1996, it had taken all NPR news programming from KXPR. The first full-power satellite, KXSR, signed on in 1992. KKTO followed in 1996, taking over from a low-powered translator that had operated from

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since 1985. In 2006, KXPR and KXJZ swapped frequencies. KXJZ moved to 90.9, while KXPR returned to 88.9.

References

External links

* {{NPR California NPR member stations