- Station name Station name
- KNKX
- Description Description
- The station is owned by Pacific Public Media, a community-based non-profit organization. It operates from studios inside Suite 500 of the Madore Building on Western Avenue in downtown Seattle and inside the C.N. Gardner Building on Broadway in downtown Tacoma.
- Launch date Launch date
- November 16, 1966 (as KPLU-FM)
- Owner Owner
- Pacific Public Media
- Contact Contact
- [email protected]
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KNKX
United States
Format
128kbps • MP3
KNKX (88.5 MHz) is a public radio station licensed to Tacoma, Washington, United States. A member of National Public Radio (NPR), it airs a jazz and news format for the Seattle metropolitan area.
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| Country Country |
United States
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|---|---|
| Language Language | English |
| Source Source | Directory source |
| Stream status Stream status | Ok |
| Homepage Homepage | knkx.org |
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Broadcast band
FM
Primary frequency
88.5 MHz
Service type
FM
Coverage area
Seattle metropolitan area
Owner / network
Pacific Public Media
First air date
November 16, 1966 (as KPLU-FM)
Transmitter coordinates
47.504, -121.976
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| Station ID | 495510 |
|---|---|
| Region | United States, Washington |
| Coordinates | 47.6083959, -122.343939 |
| Map | OpenStreetMap |
| Branding | 88.5 KNKX |
| Owner | Pacific Public Media |
| Broadcast area | Seattle metropolitan area |
| Launched | November 16, 1966 (as KPLU-FM) |
| Website | knkx.org |
| Contact email | [email protected] |
| Contact phone | 1-877-677-5659 |
| Primary frequency | 88.5 MHz |
| Broadcast band | FM |
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| HTTP status | 200 |
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| Content-Type | audio/mpeg |
| Server software | DAS |
| Latency | 962 ms |
| Last check | 2 days ago |
| Stream host | knkx-live-a.edge.audiocdn.com |
| Final host | knkx-live-a.edge.audiocdn.com |
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About station About KNKX
KNKX (88.5 MHz) is a public radio station licensed to Tacoma, Washington, United States. A member of National Public Radio (NPR), it airs a jazz and news format for the Seattle metropolitan area.
The station is owned by Pacific Public Media, a community-based non-profit organization. It operates from studios inside Suite 500 of the Madore Building on Western Avenue in downtown Seattle and inside the C.N. Gardner Building on Broadway in downtown Tacoma. KNKX broadcasts from West Tiger Mountain in the Issaquah Alps with a power of 68,000 watts. The station originally debuted in 1966 as KPLU-FM, owned by Parkland-based Pacific Lutheran University (PLU). It became a community licensee in 2016 after a proposed sale to the University of Washington, owner of fellow NPR station KUOW-FM in Seattle, resulted in opposition from station listeners. KNKX runs jazz programs middays, evenings and overnight, and carries a variety of NPR programs in other dayparts, including All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! and Fresh Air. The locally produced BirdNote airs every morning.
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