KUNI (90.9 MHz) is a radio station owned and operated by the

University of Northern Iowa The University of Northern Iowa (UNI) is a public university in Cedar Falls, Iowa. UNI offers more than 90 majors across the colleges of Business Administration, Education, Humanities, Arts, and Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences and gr ...

in Cedar Falls. It is one of two NPR outlets for Eastern Iowa; the other being WSUI in

Iowa City Iowa City, offically the City of Iowa City is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States. It is the home of the University of Iowa and county seat of Johnson County, at the center of the Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the time ...

. KUNI's transmitter is in Walker, Iowa, with its primary signal covering Cedar Falls, Waterloo,

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and Iowa City. KUNI's programming is

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on full-power satellites KUNY 91.5 FM and KRNI 1010 AM in Mason City. KUNI also has three

low-power FM Low-power broadcasting is broadcasting by a broadcast station at a low transmitter power output to a smaller service area than "full power" stations within the same region. It is often distinguished from "micropower broadcasting" (more commonly ...

translators: K233AA (94.5 FM) in Davenport, K237GD (95.3 FM) in

, and K274AA (102.1 FM) in Eldridge. Programming is mostly NPR news and talk, with some KUNI produced music programs in the evenings and on weekends. It is now a part of

Iowa Public Radio Iowa Public Radio is a state network in the U.S. state of Iowa that combines the operations of the National Public Radio member stations run by Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, and University of Northern Iowa. They broadcast programs ...

, operating with the other two public radio station clusters at the

University of Iowa The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized into 12 coll ...

and

Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the ...

. It is the flagship of IPR's "News and Studio One" service, which combines NPR news and talk programming with an extension of the "Live from Studio One" AAA program that aired on KUNI for years before the creation of IPR. Announcer Bob Dorr had been involved with the station since 1972, producing programs of classic

rock and roll Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock 'n' roll, or rock 'n roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It originated from African-American music such as jazz, rhythm an ...

recordings and live concerts featuring Iowa talent. He is also a

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica in ...

player and heads the blues band
The Blue Band
which was inducted into th
Iowa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
in 2007. Dorr retired from full-time broadcasting in 2009 but plans to produce occasional shows in the future.

References

External links

Iowa Public RadioLast version of KUNI's independent site
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