KSJK (1230 AM) is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

licensed to

Talent, Oregon Talent is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. The population was 6,282 at the 2020 census. History A. P. Tallent, an East Tennessee native who settled in Oregon in the 1870s, platted the city in the 1880s. He wanted to name it ''Wa ...

. The station is owned by

Southern Oregon University Southern Oregon University (SOU) is a public university in Ashland, Oregon. It was founded in 1872 as the Ashland Academy, has been in its current location since 1926, and was known by nine other names before assuming its current name in 1997.Kre ...

, and is an affiliate of

Jefferson Public Radio Jefferson Public Radio (JPR) is a regional public radio broadcasting network serving over a million potential listeners in Southern Oregon and the Shasta Cascade region of northern California. Owned by Southern Oregon University, the network ...

. It is the flagship of JPR's "News & Information" service, consisting of news and talk programming. KSJK signed on as KRVC in 1961 as a 1,000-watt, daytime-only outlet on 1350 kHz, licensed to

Ashland, Oregon Ashland is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. It lies along Interstate 5 approximately 16 miles (26 km) north of the California border and near the south end of the Rogue Valley. The city's population was 21,360 at the 2020 cen ...

. It was owned by Faith Tabernacle, Inc. In 1983 it was authorized to move to 1230 kHz and to change the city of license to Talent. The station was destroyed in the

Almeda Drive Fire The 2020 Oregon wildfire season was one of the most destructive on record in the state of Oregon. The season is a part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season. The fires killed at least 11 people, burned more than of land, and dest ...

on September 8, 2020.

References

External links

ijpr.org

Authorization to change frequency and city of license
SJK NPR member stations Talent, Oregon Southern Oregon University 1960 establishments in Oregon Radio stations established in 1960 News and talk radio stations in the United States {{Oregon-radio-station-stub