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KUOI-FM
	Moscow Location in the United States Moscow Location in Idaho
Moscow, Idaho, U.S.;
Broadcast area	The Palouse; North Central Idaho
Frequency	89.3 MHz; (1968–present); 660 kHz (1947–1968); 655 kHz (1945–1947)
Branding	KUOI FM Moscow
Programming
Format	College radio
Ownership
Owner	Associated Students of the University of Idaho (ASUI)
History
First air date	November 12, 1945; (80 years ago)
Call sign meaning	University Of Idaho
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	69362
Class	A
ERP	400 watts
HAAT	-35 meters
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Website	kuoi.org

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KUOI-FM (89.3 FM) is a freeform, college radio station in the western United States at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. It broadcasts in Moscow, the neighboring city Pullman, Washington, and in other townships on the Palouse. KUOI is headquartered on the third floor of the Bruce Pitman Center (the former Student Union Building) at Sixth and Deakin streets, on the northeast edge of campus.

The station began operating 80 years ago in 1945,^[2]^[3] and began FM programming 23 years later in 1968, officially starting on Sunday, November 17.^[4]^[5]

Starting on the AM dial in 1945 at 655 kHz with a two-watt transmitter, it moved to 660 in 1947 at five watts; with the move to FM, it went to ten watts in 1968 at 89.3 MHz.^[6] It boosted up to fifty watts and stereo in 1977,^[7]^[8] and to 400 watts in January 1995.^[6]^[9]

References

^ "Facility Technical Data for KUOI-FM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
^ "Radio club plans new and better radio programs". Idaho Argonaut. (Moscow). (University of Idaho). November 15, 1945. p. 1.
^ "Talent call issued for programs over KUOI". Idaho Argonaut. (Moscow). (University of Idaho). November 21, 1945. p. 1.
^ Seale, Larry (November 15, 1968). "KUOI officially begins FM programming on Sunday". Idaho Argonaut. (Moscow). (University of Idaho). p. 1.
^ "KUOI now broadcasting FM to Moscow, Pullman". Idaho Argonaut. (Moscow). (University of Idaho). November 19, 1968. p. 1.
^ ^a ^b Marone, Erik (Fall 1995). "Still chafing after all these years" (PDF). KUOI: In Cue. pp. 18–21.
^ Loftus, Bill (January 11, 1977). "KUOI: stalking number one spot in student radio". Idaho Argonaut. (Moscow). (University of Idaho). p. 8.
^ "KUOI tower erection will boost transmission". Idaho Argonaut. (Moscow). (University of Idaho). January 14, 1977. p. 12. Archived from the original on September 27, 2017.
^ Casey, Dawn (January 17, 1995). "KUOI finally gets a power boost". Idaho Argonaut. (Moscow). (University of Idaho). p. 1.

External links

KUOI-FM official website
Facility details for Facility ID 69362 (KUOI-FM) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
KUOI in Nielsen Audio's FM station database

46°43′44″N 117°00′26″W / 46.7288°N 117.0073°W / 46.7288; -117.0073

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[1] "Facility Technical Data for KUOI-FM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.

[nwndbttr-2] "Radio club plans new and better radio programs". Idaho Argonaut. (Moscow). (University of Idaho). November 15, 1945. p. 1.

[talcall-3] "Talent call issued for programs over KUOI". Idaho Argonaut. (Moscow). (University of Idaho). November 21, 1945. p. 1.

[kobg-4] Seale, Larry (November 15, 1968). "KUOI officially begins FM programming on Sunday". Idaho Argonaut. (Moscow). (University of Idaho). p. 1.

[nowbrd-5] "KUOI now broadcasting FM to Moscow, Pullman". Idaho Argonaut. (Moscow). (University of Idaho). November 19, 1968. p. 1.

[stlchfg-6] Marone, Erik (Fall 1995). "Still chafing after all these years" (PDF). KUOI: In Cue. pp. 18–21.

[stalkg-7] Loftus, Bill (January 11, 1977). "KUOI: stalking number one spot in student radio". Idaho Argonaut. (Moscow). (University of Idaho). p. 8.

[bsttwrfif-8] "KUOI tower erection will boost transmission". Idaho Argonaut. (Moscow). (University of Idaho). January 14, 1977. p. 12. Archived from the original on September 27, 2017.

[kfgapbst-9] Casey, Dawn (January 17, 1995). "KUOI finally gets a power boost". Idaho Argonaut. (Moscow). (University of Idaho). p. 1.

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-'''KUOI-FM''' (89.3 [[FM broadcasting|FM]]) is a [[freeform radio|freeform]], [[campus radio|college radio]] station at the [[University of Idaho]] in [[Moscow, Idaho]]. It broadcasts in Moscow, the neighboring city [[Pullman, Washington]], and in other townships on the [[Palouse]]. KUOI is headquartered in the third floor of the [[Student activity center|Student Union Building]] at 6th St. and Deakin St., on the northeast edge of campus.
+'''KUOI-FM''' (89.3 [[FM broadcasting|FM]]) is a [[freeform radio|freeform]], [[campus radio|college radio]] station in the [[Western United States|western]] [[United States]] at the [[University of Idaho]] in [[Moscow, Idaho]]. It&nbsp;broadcasts in Moscow, the neighboring city [[Pullman, Washington]], and in other townships on the [[Palouse]]. KUOI&nbsp;is headquartered on the third floor of the Bruce Pitman Center (the former [[Student activity center|Student Union Building]]) at Sixth and Deakin streets, on the northeast edge of&nbsp;campus.
+The station began operating {{Time ago|1945}} in 1945,<ref name=nwndbttr>{{cite news |url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/2296?_ga=2.163262654.343941606.1506404953-374550616.1499903542 |work=Idaho Argonaut |location=(Moscow) |agency=(University of Idaho) |title=Radio club plans new and better radio programs |date=November 15, 1945 |page=1}}</ref><ref name=talcall>{{cite news |url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/2300?_ga=2.238747010.343941606.1506404953-374550616.1499903542 |work=Idaho Argonaut |location=(Moscow) |agency=(University of Idaho) |title=Talent call issued for programs over KUOI |date=November 21, 1945 |page=1}}</ref> and began FM programming 23 years later in 1968, officially starting on Sunday, November 17.<ref name=kobg>{{cite news |url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/3396?_ga=2.198873901.343941606.1506404953-374550616.1499903542 |work=Idaho Argonaut |location=(Moscow) |agency=(University of Idaho)|last=Seale |first=Larry |title=KUOI officially begins FM programming on Sunday |date=November 15, 1968 |page=1}}</ref><ref name=nowbrd>{{cite news |url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/3406?_ga=2.128094990.343941606.1506404953-374550616.1499903542 |work=Idaho Argonaut |location=(Moscow) |agency=(University of Idaho) |title=KUOI now broadcasting FM to Moscow, Pullman |date=November 19, 1968 |page=1}}</ref>
-KUOI Radio’s story began like so many fairy-tales. From the obscurity of an attic in northern Idaho, several clever amateurs strung transmitting electrical wire through steam tunnels, thereby bringing two daily hours of music and Shakespearean drama to student residences. It’s fitting that the term “Broadcasting” comes from the farming word for spreading seeds in all directions. KUOI in its early years was not only an outlet for new wireless media but a experimental training ground for journalists and engineers.
+Starting on the [[AM broadcasting|AM]] dial in 1945 at 655&nbsp;kHz with a two-[[watt]] [[transmitter]], it moved to 660 in 1947 at five watts; with the move to FM, it went to ten watts in 1968 at 89.3&nbsp;MHz.<ref name=stlchfg>{{cite web|url=https://media.kuoi.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Fall-1995.pdf |work=KUOI: In Cue |last=Marone |first=Erik |title=Still chafing after all these years |date=Fall 1995 |pages=18–21}}</ref> It boosted up to fifty watts and stereo in 1977,<ref name=stalkg>{{cite news|url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/3824?_ga=2.135983539.343941606.1506404953-374550616.1499903542|work=Idaho Argonaut |location=(Moscow) |agency=(University of Idaho) |last=Loftus |first=Bill |title=KUOI: stalking number one spot in student radio  |date=January 11, 1977 |page=8}}</ref><ref name="bsttwrfif">{{cite news |date=January 14, 1977 |title=KUOI tower erection will boost transmission |url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/3825?_ga=2.158478776.343941606.1506404953-374550616.1499903542 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927112212/https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/3825?_ga=2.158478776.343941606.1506404953-374550616.1499903542 |archive-date=September 27, 2017 |work=Idaho Argonaut |location=(Moscow) |page=12 |agency=(University of Idaho)}}</ref>  and to 400 watts in January 1995.<ref name=stlchfg/><ref name=kfgapbst>{{cite news |url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/9958?_ga=2.128620302.343941606.1506404953-374550616.1499903542 |work=Idaho Argonaut |location=(Moscow) |agency=(University of Idaho) |last=Casey |first=Dawn |title=KUOI finally gets a power boost |date=January 17, 1995 |page=1}}</ref>
-saw the en-masse return of young Americans to college campuses and the distribution of war surplus equipment for citizen use. An entity based on volunteerism from its beginning, KUOI initiated students into announcing, administration, drama, public relations, and writing. In the early years of operation, KUOI was producing three half-hour dramas per week and surveying the campus for a weekly top-hits program.
+==See also==
-Partnership with national organizations furthered KUOI’s ambitions. Striking a deal with big tobacco, KUOI received an Associated Press teletype machine in exchange for pushing free cartons onto callers lucky enough to guess titles to popular Oldies songs like “Ole Buttermilk Sky” and “If You Were My Girl”. Simultaneously KUOI joined the Intercollegiate Broadcasting Company, an umbrella coalition that furthered administrative and technical collaboration among college radio stations. KUOI began broadcasting from 7a.m. to 9p.m. and by 1955 was operating on a meager $1100 yearly budget.
+* [[Campus radio]]
+* [[KZUU]], [[Washington State University]], Pullman
+* [[List of college radio stations in the United States]]
+==References==
-As universities nationwide expanded during the 1950′s, KUOI moved out of the attic and into its present offices in the then newly-built S.U.B. KUOI would be absorbed into the ASUI, thereby gaining access to student fees and the nasty bureaucracy of student politics. The Argonaut argued consistently on behalf of KUOI as the station suffered restrictive funding policies and phony, discrediting student surveys.
+{{reflist|2}}
-Despite such problems, KUOI staff brought the station safely through the technical developments of FM, the 33 1/3 Long-Playing record, and stereo broadcasting while maintaining KUOI’s semi-autonomous status as ASUI department and voice of the Vandals. Through the 50′s and 60′s KUOI provided live coverage of brutal university events like boxing matches and registration-day in the Kibbie Dome.
-The 1960′s rise of radical student movements at universities UC Berkley and Kent were felt, if slightly, at the UI. KUOI played a rather straight role compared to the Left-favoring Argonaut. One protest movement culminated in an afternoon-long takeover of the station by the Black Student Union, which demanded the University end its foot-dragging on affirmative action. The administration defended itself on the grounds they had recently hired a single minority employee. Whether affirmative action reached KUOI at this time isn’t recorded.
-In the 70′s KUOI was granted more autonomy and funding after leaving the ASUI to join the Communications Board. The station upgraded its equipment and expanded its musical library, so that by the 1980’s KUOI was joining underground music movements and leaving the stagnant formats of mainstream radio. Station Manager Chan Davis allowed DJ’s to break from monolithic playlist systems and spin whatever records and cassettes they liked. Whiplash against her anarchical Free Format policy was strong but short-lived. KUOI today belongs to an extremely small minority of student and low-power stations, whose DJ’s total creative freedom is policy.
-Today a department of the Student Media Board, KUOI continues its tradition as a music and news outlet for the students of the UI. In the mid 90′s KUOI affiliated with the independent media Left through the Pacifica Network. Pacifica programs Democracy Now! and the now replaced Pacifica Network News joined KUOI News’ home grown repertoire.
-KUOI joined an ultimately successful boycott of Pacifica as its national administration moved towards the center-right. KUOI News, which in earlier decades had produced wire copy stories and covered local events, went live from the studio roundtable and Moscow’s bars to cover the 2000 national presidential election.
-Today KUOI volunteers produce 56 weekly programs such as recent quasi-icons “The Gummi Breast-plate”, “The Guitar vs. The Machine”, and “The Screen Door”. KUOI owns the largest music library of any college station in the Northwest and broadcasts over multiple mediums. For decades KUOI has been one of the most respected college radio stations nationwide. As a pioneer in college radio and one of the most influential stations in promoting new underground artists, KUOI catalyzes music, media, and creative minds.
 ==External links==
 *[http://www.kuoi.org/ KUOI-FM official website]
-*{{FMQ|KUOI}}
+*{{FCC-LMS-Facility|69362|KUOI-FM}}
-*{{FML|KUOI}}
 *{{FMARB|KUOI}}
+{{University of Idaho}}
 {{Pullman-Moscow Radio}}
+{{Idaho college radio}}
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+{{coord|46.7288|N|117.0073|W|type:landmark_region:US_source:FCC|display=title}}
 [[Category:Radio stations in Idaho|UOI-FM]]
 [[Category:College radio stations in Idaho|UOI-FM]]
 [[Category:University of Idaho]]
-[[Category:Media in Moscow, Idaho]]
+[[Category:Mass media in Moscow, Idaho]]
 [[Category:Radio stations established in 1945]]
+[[Category:1945 establishments in Idaho]]
 {{Idaho-radio-station-stub}}

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