KGOU

KGOU

City of license	Norman, Oklahoma
Broadcast area	Oklahoma City Metroplex
Branding	KGOU
Slogan	"Your NPR Source"
Frequency	106.3 MHz
First air date	1970 as KGOU
Format	NPR News/Talk/Jazz music/Blues music
ERP	6,000 watts
HAAT	88 meters (289 ft)
Class	A
Facility ID	69369
Callsign meaning	OU is the abbreviation for the University of Oklahoma
Owner	University of Oklahoma
Webcast	http://kgou.org/listen-live
Website	http://www.kgou.org

KGOU is a National Public Radio member News/Talk/Jazz music/Blues music radio station serving the Oklahoma City area and is owned by the University of Oklahoma. It is operated by OU's College of Continuing Education (OU Outreach), with studios in Copeland Hall on the OU campus.

The station operates three full-power satellites: KROU (105.7 FM) in Spencer, KWOU (88.1 FM) in Woodward and KOUA (91.9 FM) in Ada, Oklahoma. It also operates translators K276ET (103.1 FM) in Seminole, K250AU (97.9 FM) in Ada, K295BL (106.9 FM) in Chickasha and K286BZ (105.1 FM) in Shawnee.

History

KGOU was originally licensed as a commercial rock music station to the University of Oklahoma in 1970, broadcasting at 106.3 FM. OU applied for a non-commercial Class A license and switched the station's format to NPR news and talk on New Year's Day, 1983.

The station's repeater network began more or less out of necessity. In 1993, KGOU and the University of Central Oklahoma's KCSC reached a deal to provide non-conflicting programming. This resulted in KCSC dropping all NPR news programming, even though it was the more powerful station. KGOU's signal was spotty at best in most of Oklahoma City because it had to protect what is now KTUZ-FM at nearby 106.7. To solve this problem, OU won a construction permit for a repeater station that would better cover the northern suburbs. This repeater station, KROU, officially signed on June 28, 1993. It was the first in a network of repeater stations that cover much of central and southern Oklahoma.

Its format is primarily news/talk on weekdays, with jazz, blues, and world music programs on weekends, broadcasting programs from NPR, PRI and other public radio networks alongside locally produced news and music programming.

The KGOU studios were heavily renovated in 2006.

Translators

Call sign	Frequency (MHz)	City of license	Facility ID	ERP W	Height m (ft)	Class	FCC info
KROU	105.7 MHz	Spencer, Oklahoma	69175	1,600 kW	195 m (640 ft)	A	KROU FCC
KWOU	88.1 MHz	Woodward, Oklahoma	172867	23,500 kW	224 m (735 ft)	C1	KWOU FCC
KOUA	91.9 MHz	Ada, Oklahoma	173673	1,500 kW	86 m (282 ft)	A	KOUA FCC
K276ET	103.1 MHz	Seminole, Oklahoma	141580	250 kW	65 m (213 ft)	D	FCC
K250AU	97.9 MHz	Ada, Oklahoma	141599	250 kW	30 m (98 ft)	D	FCC
K295BL	106.9 MHz	Chickasha, Oklahoma	141689	250 kW	26 m (85 ft)	D	FCC
K286BZ	105.1 MHz	Shawnee, Oklahoma	141589	140 kW	117 m (384 ft)	D	FCC

External links

• KGOU station website
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KGOU
• Radio-Locator information on KGOU
• Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KGOU
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KROU
• Radio-Locator information on KROU
• Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KROU
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KWOU
• Radio-Locator information on KWOU
• Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KWOU
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KOUA
• Radio-Locator information on KOUA
• Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KOUA
• Radio-Locator information on K276ET
• Query the FCC's FM station database for K276ET
• Radio-Locator information on K250AU
• Query the FCC's FM station database for K250AU
• Radio-Locator information on K295BL
• Query the FCC's FM station database for K295BL
• Radio-Locator information on K286BZ
• Query the FCC's FM station database for K286BZ