KMNR

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KMNR
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Broadcast area Rolla, Missouri
Frequency 88.5 (as KMSM), 89.7 (MHz)
BrandingKMNR-Rolla 89.7 FM
Programming
Format Free-format
Ownership
OwnerThe Board of Curators of the University of Missouri
History
First air date
~1961 (as KMFA), 1964 (as KMSM), 1972 (as KMNR)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 14740
Class A
ERP 1850 watts
HAAT 114 meters (374 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 37°57′07″N91°46′12″W / 37.95194°N 91.77000°W / 37.95194; -91.77000
Links
Public license information
Website kmnr.org

KMNR is an American non-commercial, educational, FM radio station licensed to the Board of Curators of the University of Missouri. However, KMNR is fully funded and operated by students at Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly known as the University of Missouri–Rolla).

Contents

KMNR strives to provide educational, entertaining, and informative radio programming as a public service to the students, faculty, and administration of Missouri S&T and for the people of Phelps County.

Programming

KMNR is a "free-format" station. This means the on-air DJ chooses all program content, with the exception of standard educational productions, which KMNR airs to serve the public interest.

Personnel

KMNR is staffed entirely by students. Programming is provided by volunteer DJs. Station administration is performed by a seven-member executive board that is elected once per year from the body of DJs. [2] As of November 2024, the station listed 78 active DJs. [3]

History

The first inkling of a Missouri S&T student-run radio station was conceived in the early 1960s (when the school was known as Missouri School of Mines (MSM)). Some MSM students, including Roger Beckman, fabricated a makeshift radio station in the dormitories which was unofficially called KMFA, these letters standing for the original four buildings in the Quadrangle residential complex: Kelly, McAnerney, Farrar, and Altman Hall (although it was also known by something else – Kool MF Association). The station was located in the northwest corner in the basement of Altman Hall and egg cartons were used on the walls and ceiling to improve acoustics. It could be heard anywhere on the dial. Around 1962, Beckman suggested a campus-owned, student-run radio station to Student Council officer Dale Marshall who brought up the suggestion to Dean Wilson one night at a meeting. Wilson requested Marshall to submit a project report, which was immediately approved upon review.

The project was on hold for one year while students brainstormed and developed the future radio station as well as familiarized themselves with the scrutiny of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Finally in 1964, what was once a student prototype in the dorms of MSM, became a bona fide campus-owned student-run radio station with call letters of KMSM. It first started playing jazz, easy listening, and light and heavy classical music in order for listeners to have an alternative venue to the rock and country music played by other Rolla radio stations. Dr. Wells Leitner became the first faculty adviser; Jerry Kettler was the first educational program director; Wayne Huckabee was the first music director; Mike DeVaney was the first business director; and Dale Marshall became the first station manager. The executive board hired its DJs, paying them a "princely" wage of fifty cents an hour. [4] Today's KMNR DJs work only for the love of free format radio.

KMSM's call letters became KMNR in 1972. [5] The "MNR" is a reference to Missouri S&T's mascot, Joe Miner. KMST, formerly named KUMR, is a separate public radio station. KMNR's studio has had at least three locations. The first known location was in T-6, [6] a temporary building between Harris Hall and the current Mechanical Engineering Extension. As T-6 was 'temporary' the university allowed the students who supported KMNR to personalize the interior not only with various rooms but also with elaborate murals painted on the walls, the most prominent being the iconic "KMNR Boeing 747" painted in the 1970s, later replaced with the KMNR Space Shuttle in 1983. KMNR was located in T-6 from the early 1970s to 1997. The original layout of the radio station was almost doubled in area in 1984 by the renovation of the space to the east of the control room, resulting in a larger library, larger lobby, and a large production room/studio to the northeast of the control room. The original lobby, and the famous nooks and crannies that existed in that awkward space were sealed-off. In 1997 T-6 was demolished to make room for a parking lot and KMNR was moved to a leased building [7] at the corner of 12th and Pine Streets that had formerly housed a bookstore and fitness center. The building's interior was gutted and reconstructed to modern studio standards and KMNR remained there until 2005. KMNR's current location is the first floor of Altman Hall [8] at the corner of 10th and State Streets. The station is now in the same building where its forerunner KMFA began.

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KMNR". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "About KMNR". KMNR. Retrieved November 16, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Disc Jockeys". KMNR. Retrieved November 16, 2024.
  4. ↑ Marshall, Dale. "History of KMSM". University of Missouri–Rolla. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved July 5, 2007.
  5. ↑ "KMNR History Timeline". UMR. Archived from the original (Excel) on July 20, 2011. Retrieved October 25, 2007.
  6. ↑ "T-6 Shrine". KMNR 89.7 FM. University of Missouri–Rolla. Archived from the original on October 2, 2011. Retrieved July 19, 2007.
  7. ↑ Porter, William (March 10, 2005). "Altman Hall to be remodeled in spring for student clubs". The Missouri Miner. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved July 19, 2007.
  8. ↑ Collins, Erica. "Increasing enrollment and decreasing room numbers: How the next renovations will work". The Missouri Miner. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved July 19, 2007.
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