KNCH (90.1

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) is the

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station for the

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of west-central

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. Licensed to

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, it is owned by

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and operated out of Texas Tech's campus in

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. The station first signed on in 1996 as KUTX, owned by the

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as a sister station to

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. Its arrival brought public radio to one of the few areas in the nation that didn't have a clear signal from a public radio station. The station was a straight simulcast of KUT, with no local programming. In 2007, however, UT began discussions about selling KUTX to Texas Tech. At the time,

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was in the process of joining the

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, and UT officials thought KUTX would be a perfect complement. The sale closed in December 2009. Texas Tech officially took control in April 2010 and changed the callsign to the current KNCH. Texas Tech transitioned the format news blended with

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KUTX sold to Tech, call letters changed to KNCH
NPR member stations NCH Texas Tech University Radio stations established in 1996 {{Texas-radio-station-stub