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Encyclopedia > Kaur
KAUR
City of license Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Branding 89.1 FM KAUR
Frequency 89.1 FM (MHz)
First air date 1972
Format College; Freeform/ecletic
ERP 680 watts
Class A
Callsign meaning AUgustana College Radio
Owner Augustana College
Website http://kaur.augie.edu/

KAUR is an FM radio station broadcasting from the campus of Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In the United States (and potentially elswhere), each radio station or TV station is assigned a city of license by the Federal Communications Commission that they must serve. While this has become far less meaningful over the decades, stations are still required to post their public file somewhere within the... Nickname: Motto: Gateway to the Plains Location in Minnehaha County and the state of South Dakota Counties (metropolitan area) Government  - Mayor Dave Munson Area  - City 178. ... For other uses, see Frequency (disambiguation). ... In most of the world, the FM broadcast band, used for broadcasting FM radio stations, goes from 87. ... MegaHertz (MHz) is the name given to one million (106) Hertz, a measure of frequency. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ... Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution. ... Freeform, or freeform radio, is a radio station programming format in which the disc jockey is given total control over what music to play, regardless of music genre or commercial interests. ... In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power (ERP) is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains to the actual electrical power output of a transmitter. ... For other uses, see Watt (disambiguation). ... This is a list of broadcast station classes applicable in much of North America under international agreements between the United States, Canada and Mexico. ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... Augustana College is a private, liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and located on a rolling 100-acre (400,000 m²) campus in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... A radio station is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. ... Augustana College is a private, liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and located on a rolling 100-acre (400,000 m²) campus in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. ... Photo of the waterfall in Sioux Falls Sioux Falls is the largest city located in South Dakota. ... Official language(s) English Capital Pierre Largest city Sioux Falls Area  Ranked 17th  - Total 77,116[1] sq mi (199,905 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 380 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ...


The station broadcasts at a frequency of 89.1 MHz and offers a roughly 60 mile listening diameter. KAUR specializes in independent or college rock, but it also broadcasts weekly Alternative, Blues/Jazz, Folk, Spanish Traditional, Rap, and Hardcore/Metal programming. The station was founded in 1972, although Augustana College once managed a self-constructed AM station which was founded in 1945. College rock was a term used in the USA to describe 1980s alternative rock before the term alternative came into common usage. ... Alternative music redirects here. ... Blues music redirects here. ... For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ... Folk song redirects here. ... For many people, Spanish music is virtually synonymous with flamenco, an Andalucian-Gitano form of music. ... Hip hop music is a style of popular music. ... Hardcore punk, now commonly known as hardcore, is a subgenre of punk rock that originated in North America in the late 1970s. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Heavy metal music. ...


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