KUAF (91.3MHz) is anon-commercialFMradio stationlicensed toFayetteville, Arkansas, servingNorthwest Arkansas. The station is owned by theUniversity of Arkansas, withstudios and offices nearthe school's campus in Downtown Fayetteville.

It airs apublic radioformat, featuring news and informational programming during the day and evening, mostly fromNational Public Radio (NPR). Programs includeMorning Edition,All Things Considered andFresh Air with Terry Gross. It has a local weekday magazine show, "Ozarks At Large," heard at noon and repeated in early evenings. Late nights, KUAF playsclassical music with somejazz andblues on Friday and Saturday nights.^[2]

KUAF has aneffective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000watts, the maximum permitted fornon-grandfathered FM stations. Thetransmitter is on Skelton Road inWyola, Arkansas.^[3] The signal covers parts of Arkansas,Oklahoma andMissouri. KUAF also serves as the NPRmember forFort Smith, Arkansas.

On January 5, 1973, KUAFsigned on the air.^[4] It was a student-run station using a low-power 10-watt transmitter, originally on 88.9 MHz.^[5] The signal could only be heard around the U of A campus and parts of surrounding Fayetteville. The station was supervised by a faculty member in the Department of Journalism. Students studying radio, television, and film were given the opportunity to volunteer for time slots available throughout the week. Aside from some public service programs, students were free to play whatever music was of interest to them. Many listeners referred to the station as "the 10-watt wonder".

In the early 1980s, the university got aconstruction permit from theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) to increase power to 60,000 watts, and move to 91.3 MHz. It also began transitioning to a more professional operation. KUAF signed on its new, more powerful transmitter in 1985, and became Northwest Arkansas' first NPR member station. KUAF became the first station in its market to sign-on with anHD Radio signal in 2006.^[6] That was coupled with an increase to 100,000 watts.

KUAF broadcasts usingHD Radio technology. The station has threedigital subchannels. KUAF-HD1 repeats the station's regular FM signal. KUAF-HD2 broadcasts around-the-clock classical music fromClassical 24. KUAF-HD3 is known as "Jazz Works." It airs continuousjazz music and specialty programs.

• Facility details for Facility ID 4307 (KUAF) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
• KUAF inNielsen Audio's FM station database

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