Senator Dan Sullivan on the air on KVRF in 2018.

KVRF (89.5 FM), branded as Big Cabbage Radio, is a community radio station licensed to Sutton, Alaska, United States. Based in nearby Palmer, Alaska, the station broadcasts to the Matanuska-Susitna Valley with transmitters serving Sutton, Palmer, and Chickaloon. The station airs a wide variety of music, including classical, folk, country, bluegrass, blues, jazz, soul, new-age and tropical, as well as local and national shows.[3] KVRF is owned by Radio Free Palmer, Inc.[4]

History

Radio Free Palmer, named after Radio Free Europe, was formed in April 2005 to seek a permit to build a community radio station to serve the Palmer area.[5] In the meantime, it offered podcasts and organized events to gauge community interest, including a talent show;[6] it also provided archived audio of school board meetings and internet access to downtown Palmer.[1] By 2008, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had granted a construction permit for the station; though backers hoped to be on the air in 2009 or 2010,[5] KVRF began broadcasting on August 23, 2011, using a transmitter gifted by KTNA in Talkeetna. Licensed to Sutton, it was inaudible in Palmer until KSKA donated its translator on Lazy Mountain to extend the service later that year.[7]

Translators

Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) HAAT Class FCC info
K209FY 89.7 FM Palmer, Alaska 807 65 m (30 ft) D LMS

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Radio Free Palmer takes to the airwaves today". Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman. September 5, 2011.
  2. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KVRF". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ^ Schedule Radio Free Palmer. Accessed February 5, 2015
  4. ^ KVRF fcc.gov. Accessed February 5, 2015
  5. ^ a b White, Rindi (December 2, 2008). "FCC grants permit to nonprofit group for radio station". Anchorage Daily News.
  6. ^ Wellner, Andrew (April 19, 2006). "Ready for radio - Extravaganza pumps up Palmer public". Anchorage Daily News. p. G9.
  7. ^ "Mission & History". Big Cabbage Radio.


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