KJHK
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| City | Lawrence, KS |
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| Broadcast area | Northeast Kansas |
| Slogan | The Sound Alternative of Lawrence, Kansas |
| Frequency | 90.7 MHz |
| First air date | 1952 on AM, 1972 on FM |
| Format | College Radio |
| ERP | 2,500watts |
| HAAT | 85 meters |
| Callsign meaning | KansasJayHawK |
| Owner | The University of Kansas |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | kjhk |
KJHK 90.7 FM is a campus radio station, located in Lawrence, Kansas at the University of Kansas. On December 3, 1994, the station became one of the first radio stations to broadcast a live and continuous stream over internet radio. It currently broadcasts at 2600 watts, with a broadcast area covering Lawrence, parts of Topeka, and Kansas City. The station is overseen by the KU Memorial Unions, but is completely run by KU students.
KJHK's roots go back to 1952, when KDGU signed on as a carrier current station on 630 AM. In 1956, it changed its calls to KUOK. Wilt Chamberlain hosted his own show on the station during his days as a KU student.
By the 1970s, the popularity of the station was outgrowing its limited range and on October 5, 1975 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave final permission to broadcast at 90.7 megahertz, and granted the station the new call letters "KJHK". On October 15, 1975, Steve Doocy played the first song at 12:25 P.M., broadcasting at 9.9 watts. In 1978 a bored staffer wrote a fake news report claiming a nuclear reactor explosion destroyed Waterloo, Iowa killing 15,000 people. Another staffer found the report and read it on air. The news was picked up by other organizations causing panic and was mentioned that night on the CBS Evening News by Walter Cronkite on how a single radio station "blowed up" Waterloo. The writer of the story was suspended for one semester before being promoted to news director the next fall.
In 1987, KJHK was granted a power increase to 100 watts. In 1988 the FCC fined the station after an excited DJ said "Fuck you Billy Tubbs!" multiple times after the KU men's basketball title game against Oklahoma. This led the school administration to remove music with expletives. The administration also prevented Ku Klux Klan members to come on the air for a show on race citing security issues. Angry students protested what they saw as a censoring of free speech with some going as far as to make anonymous death threats.
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