KCLU-FM (88.3 FM) is a

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that is licensed to

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and serves

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. The station, owned by

California Lutheran University California Lutheran University (CLU, Cal Lutheran, or Cal Lu) is a private university in Thousand Oaks, California. It was founded in 1959 and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, but is nonsectarian. It opened in 1960 ...

, is a member of NPR and airs local news, weather forecasts, and traffic conditions as well as a wide variety of public radio programming for California's South Coast of California and Central Coast of California, through additional signals listed below. The station has won more than 200 journalism awards for its local news coverage, including a national Edward R. Murrow Award, and four national Society of Professional Journalists Awards for its news coverage. KCLU-FM broadcasts in

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History

KCLU-FM first

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October 20, 1994 and originally broadcast a mix of

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and

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programming. By the late 2000s, the station reduced its jazz programming and aired news/talk around the clock. On June 19, 2008,

(CLU) purchased KIST (1340 AM) in

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from R & R Radio, LLC for $1.44 million. On October 7, the university converted the station to

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status and changed its call letters to KCLU. In January 2013, CLU purchased KHFR in

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and its translator K209CE in

San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (; Spanish for " St. Louis the Bishop", ; Chumash: ''tiłhini'') is a city and county seat of San Luis Obispo County, in the U.S. state of California. Located on the Central Coast of California, San Luis Obispo is roughly h ...

from

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for $450,000. The sale closed that May and KHFR's call sign was changed to KCLM; the station began simulcasting KCLU-FM after repairs were completed. As an NPR member station, KCLU-FM broadcasts a wide variety of public radio programming. KCLU airs the NPR shows ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!'', ''

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'' and '' Fresh Air with Terry Gross''. Other programs include '' The World'' from Public Radio Exchange (PRX), ''

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'', and the

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. The station previously broadcast ''

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'' prior to its cancellation.

Stations

KCLU-FM's network of

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and

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stations extends its reach across California's Central Coast as far north as San Luis Obispo County. Those stations feed the following translators:

Awards

KCLU has won more than 70 RTNA Golden Mike Awards, 25 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, and 50 APTRA Awards since 2001.

References

External links

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CLU The term CLU can refer to: Organizations * California Lutheran University * Claremont Lincoln University * Communion and Liberation – University * Czech Lacrosse Union Other uses * CLU (gene), the gene for clusterin * CLU (programming l ...

California Lutheran University Mass media in Thousand Oaks, California NPR member stations Radio stations established in 1994 1994 establishments in California CLU-FM