{"id":11834,"date":"2008-01-23T16:08:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T23:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/01\/23\/fm-glee-for-npr.html"},"modified":"2008-01-23T16:08:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T23:08:58","slug":"fm_glee_for_npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/fm_glee_for_npr.html","title":{"rendered":"FM glee for NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, Colorado Public Radio, which has the main NPR station in our area, KCFR, split into two channels.&nbsp; The old FM station was turned into classical music KVOD, and the NPR news station shifted over to the AM band.<\/p>\n<p>Which, to be honest, is okay, because, y&#8217;know, it&#8217;s just people talking.&nbsp; Right?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the way I feel, until each time I travel to LA and listen to KPCC, and hear the amazing <em>textures <\/em>of the voices and sounds of the NPR news there.&nbsp; Coming back and listening to it on AM makes me feel like I have a black and white TV for a while &#8212; yeah, you can see it all, but it&#8217;s just not as nice.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, KCFR was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpr.org\/index.php?option=content&amp;task=view&amp;id=144\" target=\"_blank\">playing around with HD Radio<\/a>, so you could get the NPR channel on the FM side of things (with special equipment).&nbsp; I actually pondered the idea (for about 30 seconds)..<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, it sounds like they&#8217;re buying another (normal) FM channel, and will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpr.org\/index.php?option=content&amp;task=view&amp;id=246\" target=\"_blank\">moving KCFR back over to FM<\/a>.&nbsp; Which makes me very happy &#8212; almost enough to consider sending them money &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, Colorado Public Radio, which has the main NPR station in our area, KCFR, split into two channels.&nbsp; The old FM station was turned into classical music&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13189,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/26\/kcfr_goes_fm_on_9_july.html","url_meta":{"origin":11834,"position":0},"title":"KCFR goes FM on 9 July","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-Jun-08 1:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's not updated on the web page, but I heard them mention it on the air last evening. 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