NWPR Classical Music – KFAE-FM

Except for the 1922 station that is now KWSU and the ace> station (KUID) that became KRFA in 1984, these new coverage projects (including the 1994 KRFA power upgrade) have been funded through a combination of community donations and federal assistance from the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program. Community leadership from individuals, foundations and commercial businesses has been crucial to extending public radio services throughout the Northwest Public Radio coverage area. 1922 KWSU-AM 1250: The original station in our network and among the first radio stations in the country, KWSU signed on as KFAE December 10, 1922, and later spent many decades as KWSC. For the first half of its long life, most radio listening was at night and there was little interference, so KFAE/KWSC served most of the Northwest. Famed broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow first used a microphone at the station in the late 1920s as did sportscaster Keith Jackson in the 1950s and ABC journalist Barry