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31-477: Broadcasting activity at NAU began in 1962 as a 10-watt AM station, run by students, with student-built transmitter and antenna atop Sechrist Hall. The format was Top 40 , playing popular music of the day. It was switched to a carrier current service in 1968, making it available only in campus buildings rather than over the air. The FM station was approved in 1968 and began broadcasting in December 1970 as KAXR. It

62-429: A Edward R. Murrow Award (Radio Television Digital News Association) for Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong . APM Research Lab is the research and data journalism unit of American Public Media. The Lab was established in 2017 under the leadership of American Public Media Group 's CEO Jon McTaggart and EVP Dave Kansas with the hiring of its inaugural Managing Partner, Craig Helmstetter. The Lab

93-613: A Polk Award for season 2 of In the Dark , their investigation into the case of Curtis Flowers , who was tried six times for a quadruple murder in Winona, Mississippi in 1996. This was the first Polk Award given to a podcast . The In the Dark journalists also won two Peabody Awards , in 2016 and 2020, for the first and second seasons of In the Dark . In 2023, the APM Reports educational team, with journalist Emily Hanford , won

124-469: A radio format , appeared in 1960. The Top 40, whether surveyed by a radio station or a publication, was a list of songs that shared only the common characteristic of being newly released. Its introduction coincided with a transition from the old ten-inch 78 rpm record format for single "pop" recordings to the seven-inch vinyl 45 rpm format, introduced in 1949, which was outselling it by 1954 and soon replaced it completely in 1958. The Top 40 thereafter became

155-572: A particularly bad snowstorm; half of the students left campus before the situation was rectified. As early as 1966, the idea of an FM station that might provide wider service to the city of Flagstaff outside of campus was considered. On June 19, 1968, NAU filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a new 10-watt station at 88.5 MHz in Flagstaff. Approval was granted on September 11 of that year, but

186-578: A project called Color of Coronavirus that tracks deaths due to COVID-19 by race and ethnicity in each U.S. state as well as the nation as a whole. This project has been cited hundreds of times, including by The Guardian , The Atlantic , Newsweek , The Washington Post , The New York Times , and the Journal of the American Medical Association . Until July 2015, APM operated Classical South Florida (WMLV-FM 89.7), which

217-481: A survey of the popularity of 45 rpm singles and their airplay on the radio. Some nationally syndicated radio shows, such as American Top 40 , featured a countdown of the 40 highest-ranked songs on a particular music or entertainment publication. Although such publications often listed more than 40 charted hits, such as the Billboard Hot 100 , time constraints allowed for the airing of only 40 songs; hence,

248-542: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting allowed the station to begin airing NPR and American Public Radio programs in 1984. It marked a return to NPR for KNAU, which as KAXR had been briefly aligned with the network in 1974. The first two translators were approved in 1985, one on Mount Francis to serve Prescott and one on Mount Elden to serve areas of Flagstaff that experience heavy multipath distortion with signals transmitted from Mormon Mountain. The next year, KNAU

279-490: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting . NAU provided $ 376,000 in appropriations. Memberships made up nearly $ 566,000, and the station had 4,238 members. KNAU broadcasts classical music from the Classical 24 service and key public radio news programs, including Morning Edition , All Things Considered , Marketplace , and Fresh Air . KNAU has more talk programs on the weekend, which are simulcast with KPUB. Since

310-563: The music industry , the Top 40 is a list of the 40 currently most popular songs in a particular genre. It is the best-selling or most frequently broadcast popular music . Record charts have traditionally consisted of a total of 40 songs. "Top 40" or " contemporary hit radio " is also a radio format . According to producer Richard Fatherley, Todd Storz was the inventor of the format, at his radio station KOWH in Omaha, Nebraska . Storz invented

341-462: The 45 rpm vinyl record. This includes cassette singles , CD singles , digital downloads and streaming . Many music charts changed their eligibility rules to incorporate some, or all, of these. Some disc jockeys presenting Top 40 and similar format programs have been implicated in various payola scandals. American Public Media American Public Media ( APM ) is an American company that produces and distributes public radio programs in

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372-645: The United States, the second largest company of its type after NPR . Its non-profit parent, American Public Media Group , also owns and operates radio stations in Minnesota and California . Its station brands include Minnesota Public Radio and Southern California Public Radio . Based in St. Paul , Minnesota , APM is best known for distribution of the national financial news program Marketplace . Formerly, much of American Public Media's programming content

403-475: The activation of its two translators in 1985, KNAU has steadily increased its regional coverage footprint through the construction of translators and high-power stations, as well as content partnerships, including in northern Arizona's Native American communities. In 2002, KNAU assisted in the launch of KUYI on the Hopi reservation by providing access to NPR programming as well as its own local and regional news; this

434-527: The budget for studio equipment, and in May 1982, the project got the green light, only to be held up again when an architect's bid for new studios came in much higher than budgeted. In March 1983, after NAU's College of Creative Arts reorganized some offices and relocated speech pathology to another building, space in the Creative Arts Building was identified to house KNAU studios, and the project

465-622: The format in the early 1950s, using the number of times a record was played on jukeboxes to compose a weekly list for broadcast. The format was commercially successful, and Storz and his father Robert, under the name of the Storz Broadcasting Company, subsequently acquired other stations to use the new Top 40 format. In 1989, Todd Storz was inducted into the Nebraska Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. The term "Top 40", describing

496-468: The invention of Storz and others like him, radio would be reborn". Storz is credited by some sources as helping to popularize rock and roll music. By the mid-1950s, his station, and the numerous others which eventually adopted the Top 40 format, were playing records by artists such as " Presley , Lewis , Haley , Berry and Domino ". From the 1980s onwards, different recording formats have competed with

527-414: The move away from a small student station to a regional NPR station, which would fill one of the public network's coverage gaps. Even though some grant money had already been allocated, budget cuts at NAU almost ended the project before it began and threatened the station's future. However, station officials were able to allay the university's concerns by using university personnel for construction and cutting

558-613: The partnership to WGBH to produce The World , and MPR purchased PRI-distributed Marketplace for its own distribution channels. APM Reports is the investigative journalism unit of APM, based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Established in November 2015, APM Reports' journalists are drawn from Minnesota Public Radio and the former American RadioWorks . It produces documentary as well as investigative journalism. In 2019, APM Reports journalists Madeleine Baran and Samara Freemark received

589-512: The school was Arizona State College at Flagstaff. Soon after the Arizona Board of Regents gave approval to raise the school to university status as Northern Arizona University effective May 1, 1966, KASC began considering changing its call letters to KNAU in late 1964. The change did not take place until 1967, a year in which the student station was pranked by someone claiming to be an administrator dismissing campus early for Christmas due to

620-545: The station did not begin regular programming until December 16, 1970. KAXR ("K-Axer", referring to the university's Lumberjacks mascot) was the second FM station in Flagstaff and had a fine arts and classical music orientation, though it also played rock music. It complemented carrier current KNAU, which remained in service as a student station. The transmitter was donated by Phoenix College , whose KFCA had already upgraded to higher power. NAU had also been donated equipment to possibly operate an AM station at 1230 kHz, which

651-552: The switch was in response to KJZZ in Phoenix losing its Flagstaff translator the year prior, taking with it many longform talk programs that KNAU did not carry. The station moved to new studios on NAU's South Campus in 1998, leaving the Creative Arts Building behind after starting there in 1970. KNAU was honored with three national Edward R. Murrow Awards for small-market radio stations in 2014. In fiscal year 2021, KNAU had total revenue of $ 3.14 million, of which $ 477,000 came from

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682-534: The term "top 40" gradually became part of the vernacular associated with popular music. An article in the Spring 2012 issue of Nebraska History magazine offered this comment as to Todd Storz' legacy: "the radio revolution that Storz began with KOWH was already sweeping the nation. Thousands of radio station owners had realized the enormous potential for a new kind of radio. When television became popular, social monitors predicted that radio would die. However, because of

713-403: The upgrade. The university had opted to go all the way because it said such a major upgrade could attract grant support. On August 18, 1980, KAXR became KNAU, a set of call letters that previously belonged to the scrapped freighter Kenneth McKay ; the designation had been denied originally to the station because of its use by the ship. The first full-time station manager was also hired as part of

744-447: Was a 10-watt station that aired some arts programming as well as student DJ-selected music. In the early 1980s, the station transformed from a local outlet into a regional public radio station, which included a frequency change and power increase to 100,000 watts in 1983, expanded facilities and staff, affiliation with NPR, and the construction of new transmitters. Broadcasting at NAU began with station KASC, built in 1962 and so named when

775-497: Was approved for good. A transmitter was built on Mormon Mountain , while a satellite uplink was added for the reception of public radio programming. On November 28, 1983, KNAU switched from 10 watts at 88.5 MHz to 100,000 watts at 88.7 MHz. In its metamorphosis, KNAU not only had expanded its coverage area, but it had also hired its first news director, expanded its record library from 300 to 1,500 classical selections, and added more full-time staff. Full public radio status from

806-555: Was approved to expand its service north and west to Page and Kingman . Also in 1986, KNAU was first to report the crash of an airplane and a helicopter over the Grand Canyon , earning it a Governors' Award from the Associated Press . In 1995, KNAU replaced the 90.7 transmitter on Mount Elden with a new 500-watt full-service station, KNAQ. This station became a separate program service, talk-oriented KPUB , in 2001;

837-498: Was being vacated by KEOS in its move to 690 kHz; however, an FCC freeze on new AM station applications forestalled any use of the frequency. The small FM station began its effort to transform into a regional outlet at the end of the 1970s. In 1979, it filed to increase power to 100,000 watts to comply with FCC rules restricting 10-watt Class D stations like KAXR; the Board of Regents included funds in its 1980–81 budget to carry out

868-614: Was created to further strengthen APM's commitment to factual information as indicated by the tagline "bringing facts into focus." The unit has conducted several research projects in collaboration with newsrooms within the American Public Media Group and beyond, including partnerships with Marketplace , Minnesota Public Radio News , and PBS/Frontline and the Texas Newsroom. In 2020 the Lab began publishing

899-679: Was distributed by Public Radio International , which itself was named "American Public Radio", or APR, until July 1, 1994. APR was formed by four stations—the Minnesota Public Radio network, WGBH in Boston, WNYC in New York, and KUSC in Los Angeles—to distribute A Prairie Home Companion . PRI owns and produces numerous programs today, but still also distributes diverse programming from many sources. In contrast, APM, which

930-645: Was founded in 2004, predominantly distributes content that it owns and produces itself; exceptions include The Story with Dick Gordon (which ended production in October 2013), the distribution to US stations of the BBC World Service , and the BBC Proms broadcasts from Royal Albert Hall in London . The split happened as MPR and PRI began seeing each other more as potential competitors after MPR lost

961-539: Was the second station it had provided NPR programming to, after KGHR in Tuba City . At one time in the mid-2000s, KNAU supported KAWC-FM in Yuma , with KNAU's network operations manager serving as the general manager of KAWC-FM. In 2008, Cellular One of Show Low donated $ 67,000 to support a satellite interconnection system to improve the signal delivery from Flagstaff, which had been intermittent. Top 40 In

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