KBOO
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| City | Portland, Oregon |
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| Broadcast area | northern Willamette Valley, Columbia River Gorge |
| Branding | K-Boo |
| Slogan | Listener Supported Community Radio |
| Frequency | 90.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Translator(s) | 91.9 K220HR (Hood River) 104.3 K282BH (Philomath) |
| First air date | June 18, 1968 |
| Format | Eclectic |
| ERP | 26,500 watts |
| HAAT | 386 meters |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 65755 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 45°29′20.00″N 122°41′40.00″W / 45.4888889°N 122.6944444°W |
| Owner | KBOO Foundation |
| Webcast | Listen Live M3U |
| Website | kboo.fm |
KBOO is a non-profit organization, listener-funded FM Community radio station broadcasting from Portland, Oregon. The station's mission is to serve groups in its listening area who are underrepresented on other local radio stations and to provide access to the airwaves for people who have unconventional or controversial tastes and points of view. It broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and has been on the air since 1968.
KBOO is supported financially by donations from members and a small endowment. As of February 2006, the station had about 6,800 members. The station runs pledge drives twice each year. The annual KBOO budget in 2006 was about $900,000.
The station is run by nine paid staff members and several hundred volunteers. Its offices and broadcast studios are in a converted warehouse in inner Southeast Portland, purchased in 1982. Its main transmitter power output is 10,000 watts in Portland, KBOO also has two repeater stations – in Philomath, Oregon (at 104.3 FM) and the Columbia River Gorge (at 91.9 FM) – which increase its broadcast area to include the Columbia River Gorge and most of the Willamette Valley.
A group of Portlanders organized themselves as Portland Listener Supported Radio in 1964. They approached Lorenzo Milam, a former volunteer at Pacifica Radio's KPFA, who helped start KRAB, a now-defunct community station in Seattle.
Milam agreed to help them organize a station, and after a series of meetings, Portland Listener Supported Radio applied for a license for a Portland radio station. In time, Milam helped several other communities start their own stations, including KCHU, WAIF, WORT, KDNA, KTAO, and KUSP.
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