KNAU

KNAU

City of license	Flagstaff, Arizona
Broadcast area	Flagstaff
Slogan	Arizona Public Radio
Frequency	88.7 MHz
First air date	1983
Format	News/Talk and Information, and Classical Music
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	445.0 meters (1,460.0 ft)
Class	C
Facility ID	49490
Transmitter coordinates
Affiliations	National Public Radio, Public Radio International, American Public Media
Owner	Northern Arizona University
Sister stations	91.7/KPUB Flagstaff; 90.3/KNAG Grand Canyon; 89.3/KNAU Kingman; 91.7/102.7 KNAD Page; 93.5/KNAU Payson; 89.3/KPUB & 106.1/KNAU Prescott; 90.7/KNAA Show Low; 103.3/KPUB & 102.5/KNAU Verde Valley
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	www.knau.org

KNAU (88.7 and 91.7FM) is a radio station broadcasting classical music and news/talk and information format, respectively. Licensed to Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, KNAU and its sisters stations serve the northern Arizona area. The station is currently owned by Northern Arizona University and features programing from National Public Radio, Public Radio International, and American Public Media, among other content providers.

In its early days in the 1960s, it was an unlicensed, low power AM station, using cobbled-together, non-standard transmitting equipment located on the top of Sechrist Hall dormitory. The format of the station was nominally Top-40 and was entirely student-run, with oversight from a faculty adviser. It solicited advertising to supplement its operating budget. The additional revenue enabled the station to pay nominal salaries to several student staff members.

A prank on-air announcement dismissing classes early for Christmas break due to weather alerted the school's administration to the fact that many students listened to the station. Alarmed and fearing repercussions from higher authorities, in 1969 university officials disbanded the over-the-air feature, sending the signal through carrier current only to on-campus buildings, though that lasted but a few years.

The current KNAU signed on in 1983. Originally licensed as KAXR, it changed its call sign to KNAU before going on the air.

Translators

Broadcast translators of KNAA

Call sign	Frequency (MHz)	City of license	ERP W	Class	FCC info
K246BI	97.1 FM	Winslow, Arizona	25	D	FCC

Broadcast translators of KNAU

Call sign	Frequency (MHz)	City of license	ERP W	Class	FCC info
K227AP	93.3 FM	Cottonwood, Arizona	10	D	FCC
K207DX	89.3 FM	Kingman, Arizona	90	D	FCC
K274AY	102.7 FM	Page, Arizona	140	D	FCC
K228EA	93.5 FM	Payson, Arizona	10	D	FCC
K291AL	106.1 FM	Prescott, Arizona	10	D	FCC

External links

• Query the FCC's FM station database for KNAU
• Radio-Locator information on KNAU
• Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KNAU