KCPW-FM
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| City | Salt Lake City, Utah |
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| Branding | KCPW |
| Frequency | 88.3 and 105.5 FM |
| Format | Public Broadcasting |
| ERP | 2,350 watts |
| HAAT | -61 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 13481 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°45′48″N 111°53′23″W / 40.76333°N 111.88972°W |
| Callsign meaning | Reversal of the two internal letters of former sister station KPCW, which in turn stands for K Park City Wireless |
| Former callsigns | KBQA |
| Affiliations |
American Public Media Public Radio International |
| Owner | Wasatch Public Media |
| Webcast | MP3 Format |
| Website | www.kcpw.org |
KCPW-FM is a public radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah which broadcasts programming from American Public Media, BBC, PRI, as well as local programming. It broadcasts from a studio at Library Square at the Salt Lake City Public Library in downtown Salt Lake City.
It broadcasts at 88.3 MHz FM (KCPW-FM) in Salt Lake City, and 105.5 MHz FM (K288GY) in Holladay. The FM frequencies are both owned by Wasatch Public Media. KCPW-FM's transmitter is located atop the Wells Fargo Center in downtown Salt Lake City. The translator, K288GY, is broadcast from a tower near Parley's Canyon in Salt Lake City. The 88.3 FM frequency does not broadcast in stereo audio, to improve reception in marginal signal areas. Because of FCC allocation considerations, 88.3 FM cannot use as much power as most of the other Salt Lake City FM stations.
The station was assigned the call letters KBQA, beginning on August 9, 1991. On November 1, 1992, the station changed its call sign to KCPW.
KCPW was originally owned by Community Wireless of Park City, owner of KPCW in Park City. Originally only heard in the Salt Lake Valley on its FM frequencies, the station added KCPW (1010 AM) in early 2005 in order to capture a larger audience. In January 2008, the 1010 AM frequency was devoted entirely to 24/7 BBC World Service programming. In March 2008, Community Wireless put the KCPW stations up for sale; on March 28, Wasatch Public Media signed a letter of intent to purchase KCPW-FM. A sale contract was signed in June 2008; had this not occurred, KCPW-FM would have instead been sold to the Educational Media Foundation. KCPW's AM 1010 facility was separately sold to Immaculate Heart Radio; that station became KPCW, simulcasting KPCW-FM, in March 2009, and then Catholic radio station KIHU that August.
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