KASU (91.9 FM) is a

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Arkansas State University Arkansas State University (A-State or ASU) is a public university, public research university in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States. It is the flagship campus of the Arkansas State University System and the second-largest university in the st ...

Jonesboro, Arkansas Jonesboro () is a city located on Crowley's Ridge in the northeastern corner of the U.S. State of Arkansas. Jonesboro is one of two county seats of Craighead County, Arkansas, Craighead County. In 2023, the city had an estimated population of ...

, United States. Established in 1957, the station serves parts of northeastern Arkansas, southeastern Missouri and western Tennessee. On March 28, 2020, an EF3 tornado directly struck Jonesboro destroying the transmitter site for the station.

Emergency Alert System

KASU is the primary source of messages distributed through the

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in northeast Arkansas.

KAIT KAIT (channel 8) is a television station in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States, affiliated with ABC, NBC, and The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Media alongside Telemundo affiliate KJTB-LD (channel 36) and KJBW-LD (channel 35). The three stat ...

relays KASU’s signal for tests and

KJNB-LD KJNB-LD (channel 39) is a low-power television station in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States, affiliated with Fox and CBS. Owned by Coastal Television Broadcasting Company LLC, the station maintains a small office in the Regions Bank Buildi ...

relays KASU’s signal for actual emergencies.Arkansas EAS Plan
arkbroadcasters.org

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FCC history cards for KASU
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