Radio Kansas is a network of
public radio
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stations serving central
Kansas
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. The network is based at
Hutchinson Community College in
Hutchinson. It comprises flagship KHCC-FM (90.1
FM in Hutchinson, also serving
Wichita) and two full-time satellites, KHCD (89.5 FM) in
Salina and KHCT (90.9 FM) in
Great Bend
Great Bend is a city in and the county seat of Barton County, Kansas, United States. It is named for its location at the point where the course of the Arkansas River bends east then southeast. As of the 2020 census, the population of the ci ...
.
The three stations air a mix of
classical music
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and
American Public Media programming including
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news.
History
The flagship station, KHCC, was licensed July 14, 1972 and first signed on air September 11, 1972 as an 80-watt student station operated by what was then Hutchinson Junior Community College. In 1978, HJCC hired its first professional station manager, David Horning, as part of an effort to upgrade the station to an NPR member. On July 1, 1979, KHCC increased power to a full 100,000 watts and joined NPR, becoming Kansas' third full NPR member. This also made Wichita one of the smallest markets with two competing NPR member stations. KHCC brought NPR programming to several Wichita suburbs who, at the time, got only a marginal signal from the market's other NPR member,
KMUW; that station would not upgrade to full power until 1987.
KHCD was added on January 28, 1988, followed by KHCT on August 3, 1992. More or less out of necessity, when KHCT signed on, KHCC rebranded itself as "Radio Kansas." Radio Kansas now serves a broadcast area with over one million, with a combined footprint covering most of the densely populated area of central Kansas.
Radio Kansas began broadcasting in the
HD Radio
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format in 2006, one of the first NPR members to do so. In 2012, it signed on three additional HD streams on all three stations. HD2 ("New Grass Valley") is a full-time
folk
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Arts, entertainment, and media
* Folk Plus or Fol ...
and
bluegrass station, HD3 airs contemporary instrumental music ("The Breeze") and HD4 airs
jazz
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("Radio Kansas Jazz").
References
External links
Official website*
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KHCC-FM
NPR member networks