| 1992
The on-air schedule is reformatted with greater emphasis
placed on news and talk programs. Classical music is eliminated
from the weekday schedule (11:00 AM to 3:00 PM), replaced
by national and local news programming, including NPR’s
Talk of the Nation. Some music programming remains
during evening and weekend hours. The revised schedule,
coupled with more sophisticated fund raising success, enables
the station to increase its listening audience and enlarge
its local news staff.
|
1993
KCUR receives a $135,000 grant from the Public Telecommunications
Facilities Program at the US Department of Commerce to replace
the station’s aging transmitter and to install a studio-transmitter-link. |
1994
The station begins broadcasting 24 hours a day with the automated
addition of the BBC Overnight. |
1997
KCUR’s first website is launched.
KCUR celebrates its 40th anniversary. Several thousand commemorative
posters (featuring a painting by Kansas City artist and educator,
Wilbur Niewald) are printed and distributed throughout the
year at various fund raising and special events.
|
2001
KCUR’s Endowment Account is established. |
2002
KCUR’s Community Advisory Board is formed.
KCUR’s on-air studio, news room, production booths,
reception area and some private offices are remodeled. Additional
renovations enlarge the development and marketing area.
|
| 2003
Streaming of the station’s
broadcast signal begins on KCUR’s website.
|
2007
KCUR continues to broadcast twenty-four hours a day, seven
days a week. Staff consists of twenty full-time and eighteen
part-time employees. More than three hundred volunteers
actively participate throughout the year in fund raising
activities and special events.
The
station’s yearly budget exceeds $2,000,000. About
seventy-five percent of the station’s revenue comes
from individuals and businesses within the Kansas City community;
most of the remaining income comes from the University of
Missouri-Kansas City and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Ratings for the station indicate an audience estimate of
161,500 listeners per week (Spring 2007 Arbitron). |
