KCPR

For the airport serving Casper, Wyoming assigned the ICAO code KCPR, see Casper/Natrona County International Airport.
KCPR
City San Luis Obispo, California
Broadcast area San Luis Obispo County, California
Branding "Independent"
Slogan Cal Poly Radio
Frequency 91.3 MHz
First air date 1968
Format Campus radio
ERP 310 watts
HAAT 432 meters
Class A
Facility ID 8324
Callsign meaning K Cal Poly Radio
Owner California Polytechnic State University
Webcast Listen Live
Website kcpr.org

KCPR is a non-profit freeform college radio station at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo), San Luis Obispo, California. Its operating frequency is 91.3 MHz FM. KCPR also streams its programming online 24 hours a day.[1]

KCPR's first broadcast occurred with a small 2-watt transmitter in the Fall of 1968; according to station lore, the first words spoken on-air were, "Is this the damn switch?"[2] not "Christ, are we on the air?" as it is sometimes reported.[3] Weird Al Yankovic was a volunteer DJ there when he was an undergraduate architecture student at the university. Yankovic recorded his iconic parody song "My Bologna" in the bathroom that stands across the hall from the station's original location on the second floor of the Journalism Building on the Cal Poly campus.[4] He would later return to the station for an interview during the 1990s, where he recorded a station ID that can still be heard playing today.[5] After 39 years of continuous operation, KCPR moved to a new studio in the Summer of 2008.[4]

Former KCPR DJ and Cal Poly professor Jim Cushing described the station's musical philosophy thus: “to provide people with a blend of music that they will not find on any other station. To remind people that the musical culture belongs to them”[4]

KCPR is currently known as Cal Poly Radio, and previously "Burnt Dog Radio," an axiom that is reflected in one of the station's early logo designs that featured the RCA Victor dog.

Notable programs that have anchored the KCPR program schedule for years include Club 91, The Breakfast Club, and The Lounge.

Notable KCPR Alumni

References

  1. ↑ KCPR Online Stream
  2. ↑ [Brad Brown, personal interview]
  3. ↑ [Brad Brown, personal interview]
  4. 1 2 3 Mendonca, Kylie (November 25, 2008). "A long, strange trip". NewTimes (San Luis Obispo, California). Retrieved December 21, 2012.
  5. ↑ KCPR Weird Al Promo
  6. ↑ http://www.radio-info.com/news/kcprs-favorite-son-weird-al-helps-dedicate-new-facilities
  7. ↑ http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1398&context=calpoly_magazine
  8. ↑ http://mustangnews.net/mustangs-tune-into-the-music-industry/
  9. ↑ http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/san-luis-obispo/palm-theatre-san-luis-obispo-jim-dee.html
  10. ↑ http://www.newtimesslo.com/cover/1444/a-long-strange-trip/
  11. ↑ http://mustangnews.net/thestateofthereunion/
  12. ↑ http://www.calpolylink.com/s/699/alumni/index.aspx?sid=699&gid=1&pgid=1209

External links

Coordinates: 35°21′40″N 120°39′25″W / 35.361°N 120.657°W / 35.361; -120.657

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