© 2021 WFAE
90.7 Charlotte 93.7 Southern Pines 90.3 Hickory 106.1 Laurinburg
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
Available On Air Stations

A Look Behind The Proposed Sale Of A Seattle Public Radio Station To Its Competitor

A recording studio at KUOW. (KUOW/Flickr)
A recording studio at KUOW. (KUOW/Flickr)

When Seattle public radio news station KUOW announced recently that it would purchase Seattle’s other major public radio station KPLU, it was met with shock and anger by members of the KPLU advisory board. The board subsequently voted unanimously to oppose the sale of the radio station.

KUOW has said that it would change the format of KPLU from news and music to jazz and blues. NPR’s David Folkenflik tells Here & Now’s Indira Lakshmanan about the broadcast landscape behind the proposed purchase.


Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly called the proposed purchase of KPLU a proposed merger. We regret the error.

Guest

Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
https://www.wfae.org/2015-11-25/a-look-behind-the-proposed-sale-of-a-seattle-public-radio-station-to-its-competitor
www.wfae.org
crawl=CC-MAIN-2021-31
172472
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:IZFULAKDWBI3F52T6YE5SLSI5PEZARLJ
<urn:uuid:596d1a2a-7732-4e3d-a661-3a029f895df4>
2021-08-02T01:42:46Z
99.84.216.89
text/html
sha1:TUQSS4Z2LPSKAPS6WEFWPTHNSXNJMEMP
<urn:uuid:0a27250f-d895-4883-b595-fca3e41e6560>
https://www.wfae.org/2015-11-25/a-look-behind-the-proposed-sale-of-a-seattle-public-radio-station-to-its-competitor
response
<urn:uuid:069da1d2-81a7-4df3-acbf-3a4e9c6acf24>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-31
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for July/August 2021
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-129.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/