KMUC (90.5 FM) is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...

broadcasting a

classical music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be #Relationship to other music traditions, distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical mu ...

format. Licensed to

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, United States, the station is owned by the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...

, alongside NPR affiliate

KBIA KBIA (91.3 FM), is a National Public Radio-member station in Columbia, Missouri. It carries regional news coverage, locally produced news shows, original talk shows, as well as NPR news programs including ''All Things Considered'' and ''Morning ...

and NBC affiliate

KOMU-TV KOMU-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Columbia, Missouri, United States, serving the Columbia–Jefferson City market as an affiliate of NBC and The CW Plus. The station's studios and transmitter are located on US 63 southea ...

. The program Mizzou Music runs weekly featuring interviews and performances by faculty and students of the University of Missouri School of Music.

History

In November 2014, owner

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announced it would sell the then-KWWC-FM to the

, which already owned

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member station

(91.3). Once the sale was completed, the

format heard on KBIA during the daytime was moved to 90.5, while the 91.3 signal would have a

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/ talk/information format similar to sister stations

KWMU KWMU (90.7 Hertz, MHz) is a non-commercial educational station, non-commercial, listener-supported radio station in St. Louis, Missouri. It airs a public radio radio format, format of talk radio, news, talk and information, as a network affil ...

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and KCUR-FM in Kansas City. The call letters were also to be changed to KMUC. The station changed its call sign to KMUC on October 29, 2015, and changed its format to classical music on October 31, 2015.

References

External links

University of Missouri MUC Radio stations established in 1965 1965 establishments in Missouri Classical music radio stations in the United States {{Missouri-radio-station-stub