KDPS
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| City | Des Moines, Iowa |
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| Broadcast area | Des Moines area |
| Branding | Edge 88 |
| Frequency | 88.1 MHz |
| First air date | 1953 |
| Format | Variety |
| ERP | 5,200 watts |
| HAAT | 87.0 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 16720 |
| Transmitter coordinates | Coordinates: 41°35′1″N 93°38′28″W / 41.58361°N 93.64111°W |
| Callsign meaning | 'Des Moines Public Schools |
| Former callsigns | DKDPS (2005-?) |
| Owner |
Des Moines Public Schools, programmed in part by Grand View University (Des Moines Independent School District) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | KPDS website |
KDPS is a radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. The station is owned by Des Moines Public Schools. The school district programs the station during daytime hours with a variety of rock music styles and staffs it with high school students who are learning radio. Most evenings and on weekends, KDPS is programmed by Grand View University with alternative rock music on weeknights and children's music on weekends, however every Friday is called Hip Hop Friday, as they play hip hop the entire day. Grand View's 24-hour-a-day webcast is available at the link below.
The station's rock music schedule runs 7 a.m. to midnight on weekdays during the school year. During June and July the high school and college students broadcast from the Grand View University studios during the daytime hours. KDPS is off the air for weekdays in August due to the summer break but the webcasting and weekend Kids Radio Mania continues.
Kids Radio Mania is the station's weekend radio programming format. Kids Radio Mania is produced by Professor Stephen Winzenburg at Grand View University and airs every Saturday from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. central time and Sunday from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. during summers and holidays, Sundays 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. during the school year. Information is available at the web site www.KDPSradio.com.
Kids Radio Mania started in 1992 as a four-hour Saturday morning kids music format. Originally produced on large one-hour reel-to-reel tapes, the format used the little amount of children's music that was available at the time. The Saturday morning format lasted for three years, until a national children's radio format came to the Des Moines market on an AM station (which only lasted for a year).
The Kids Radio Mania format was revived as an all-weekend station on April 1, 2001. From a small collection of children's CDs the station has grown to a library of over 600 CDs and airs pre-teen pop music, such as Hilary Duff, Aaron Carter, Raven, the A-Teens and Jesse McCartney. It also plays many of the kids classics, such as Raffi, Barney, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and Hampton the Hampster.
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