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              Community Radio for Northern Colorado




FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                        Contact:  Robert Leja
July 6, 2010                                                                      Phone: 970.350.0822  

KUNC Purchases Estes Park Station

Greeley Colorado, July 6, 2010:   KUNC, Community Radio for Northern
Colorado, has received FCC approval for purchase of a new radio station license
to serve Estes Park at 90.7 FM.  The new station, operating as KENC, will
begin broadcasting on Monday, July 12, at noon.

The new station license will provide increased signal strength and protection from interference
that has impacted reception in the area.  It will replace KUNC's translator, which has served
Estes Park since 1987 at 90.9 FM.

"The new signal is just a step down the dial, but will be a big step up in terms of our signal quality,"
said Community Radio for Northern Colorado President and CEO Neil Best. "As our many
listeners in the area know, delivering a quality signal has been challenging, but completion of this
purchase will allow us to deliver a consistently high-quality signal that will match the quality of our programming."

KENC will be rebroadcasting the same National Public Radio shows and locally produced Diverse Music
programming that KUNC offers along the Front Range, from its main studio in Greeley. "We are excited
that our many Estes Park members and listeners will now have consistent, clear reception for national
programs such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Car Talk and A Prairie Home Companion,
in addition to KUNC's award-winning regional news coverage and Diverse Music," says Best.

KUNC serves listeners along the Front Range, as well as Boulder, Breckenridge, Buena Vista, Eagle,
Estes Park, Golden and west Denver, Grand County, Holyoke, Julesburg, Leadville, Morgan County,
North Park, Steamboat Springs, Sterling, Vail, Wray and Yuma.


              Community Radio for Northern Colorado




FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                        Contact:  Robert Leja
June 28, 2010                                                                   Phone: 970.350.0822  

KUNC Reporter Wins Public Radio News Directors' Award

Greeley Colorado, June 28, 2010. The Public Radio News Directors Incorporated has recognized KUNC's Kirk Siegler with a first place award.

Siegler won in the Spot News category for a report on immigration reform rallies held in the state's mountain communities to coincide with the introduction of federal legislation. PRNDI is the only national contest honoring outstanding news reporting at local public radio stations.

The KUNC news department received a total of 15 awards for work produced in 2009 including Best Morning Newscast by the Colorado Associated Press and the Colorado Broadcasters Association. KUNC also received its first-ever national Edward R. Murrow Award for feature reporting. For more information, contact Robert Leja at 970-350-0822 or robert.leja@kunc.org.






                    Community Radio for Northern Colorado




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June 16, 2010                                                                         

KUNC Reporter Wins National Edward R. Murrow Award

 

Greeley Colorado, June 16, 2010. The Radio and Television News Directors Association has recognized KUNC's Grace Hood with a national Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in broadcast journalism.

Hood won in the Feature Reporting category for a report profiling the efforts of two Boulder couples to have a baby. The story gained automatic entry into the national competition after winning a regional Murrow award in April. It's the first national Edward R. Murrow award for the KUNC newsroom after receiving seven regional honors in the last four years.  

The RTDNA has been honoring outstanding achievements in journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Murrow Award recipients demonstrate the spirit of excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the broadcast news profession.

 

KUNC serves listeners along the Front Range at 91.5 FM, 102.7 in Boulder, and 91.7 in Golden and the west metro area, along with a network of stations and translators around the state including  Breckenridge, Buena Vista, Grand County, Haxtun/Holyoke, Julesburg/Ovid, Leadville, Morgan County, North Park, Salida, Steamboat Springs Sterling, Vail/Minturn & Eagle Valley, Wray, and Yuma.  

www.kunc.org 822 Seventh St, Suite 530, Greeley, CO 80631 
970.378.2579 (p)  970.378.2580 (f)

 

 




Community Radio for Northern Colorado
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                     Contact:  Robert Leja
April 7, 2010                                                                          Phone: 970.350.0822

 

 

 Colorado Associated Press Recognizes KUNC News Staff

 

Greeley, Colorado May 15, 2010:  The Colorado Associated Press Broadcasters Association recognized the KUNC Newsroom with seven awards in six categories at the 2010 Colorado Associated Press Broadcasters Association Awards Luncheon in Golden.

 

News Staffers Brian Larson, Deanna Garcia, Kirk Siegler, Grace Hood and Erin O'Toole received a first place award for Best Morning Newscast and a second place award for Best Newscast. Grace Hood swept the Investigative Reporting category with first and second place awards and was given top honors in the Best Use of Sound and Feature categories. Kirk Siegler received a first place award in the General Reporting category.


Entries were judged by Connecticut AP members. KUNC received awards in the Large/Medium Market category.


The KUNC news staff also received a first place award for Best Newscast from the Colorado Broadcasters Association in March. In April the Radio and Television News Directors Association presented Grace Hood with two Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in journalism in the Best Feature and Investigative Reporting categories.


For more information, contact Robert Leja at robert.leja@kunc.org or 970-350-0822.


KUNC serves listeners along the Front Range at 91.5 FM, 102.7 in Boulder, and 91.7 in Golden and the west metro area, along with a network of stations and translators around the state including  Breckenridge, Buena Vista, Grand County, Haxtun/Holyoke, Julesburg/Ovid, Leadville, Morgan County, North Park, Salida, Steamboat Springs Sterling, Vail/Minturn & Eagle Valley, Wray, and Yuma.

 www.kunc.org

822 Seventh St, Suite 530, Greeley, CO 80631  970.378.2579 (p)  970.378.2580 (f)

                     



Community Radio for Northern Colorado
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                     Contact:  Robert Leja

April 7, 2010                                                                          Phone: 970.350.0822

 

KUNC Reporter Wins Two Edward R. Murrow Awards

 

Greeley Colorado, April 7, 2010. The Radio and Television News Directors Association has recognized KUNC's Grace Hood with two regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for excellence in journalism. The Murrow awards were given in region three in the U.S., which includes Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

 

Hood won in the Feature Reporting category for her report profiling the efforts of two Boulder couples to have a baby, and in the Investigative Reporting category for a report on the Department of Education and its implementation of new online school regulations.

The RTDNA has been honoring outstanding achievements in journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Murrow Award recipients demonstrate the spirit of excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the broadcast news profession.

Regional winners automatically become eligible for the national awards competition, which will be judged in early June. More information on the RTNDA award winners is available at: http://www.rtdna.org/pages/media_items/2010-regional-edward-r.-murrow-award-winners1934.php#region3

The KUNC news department was also recognized recently by the Colorado Broadcasters Association. As a group, the news staff – Brian Larson, Deanna Garcia, Kirk Siegler, Grace Hood and Erin O'Toole – was singled out with a first place award in the Best Newscast category, and Hood received a first place award in the Best Single Event News category for her coverage of a controversial anti-methamphetamine ad campaign in Northern Colorado and a second place award for coverage of the Angie Zapata Murder trial.

 

For more information, contact Robert Leja at KUNC robert.leja@kunc.org or 970-350-0822.

 

KUNC serves listeners along the Front Range at 91.5 FM, 102.7 in Boulder, and 91.7 in Golden and the west metro area, along with a network of stations and translators around the state including  Breckenridge, Buena Vista, Grand County, Haxtun/Holyoke, Julesburg/Ovid, Leadville, Morgan County, North Park, Salida, Steamboat Springs Sterling, Vail/Minturn & Eagle Valley, Wray, and Yuma.

 

www.kunc.org

822 Seventh St, Suite 530, Greeley, CO 80631  970.378.2579 (p)  970.378.2580 (f)

  







Community Radio for Northern Colorado

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                     Contact:  Robert Leja

March 13, 2010                                                                     Phone: 970.350.0822

 

Colorado Broadcasters Association Recognizes KUNC News Staff

 

Greeley Colorado, March 13, 2010:  The KUNC Newsroom was recognized with two Major Market first-place and two second place awards for 2009 by the Colorado Broadcasters Association at their annual Awards of Excellence Banquet on Saturday night.

 

As a group, the news staff, Brian Larson, Deanna Garcia, Kirk Siegler, Grace Hood and Erin O'Toole, was singled out with a first place award in the best newscast category.

 

Reporter Grace Hood also received a first place award in the Best Single Event News Category for her coverage of a controversial anti methamphetamine ad campaign in northern Colorado and a second place for coverage of the Angie Zapata Murder trial. Hood also received a second place award in the Best Feature category.

 

The Colorado Broadcasters Association received 495 radio entries for the 2009 contest. Entries were judged by the Wisconsin Association of Broadcasters.

 

The Colorado Broadcasters Association Award of Excellence is designed to honor individual and station excellence within the Colorado Broadcast industry.

 

 

For more information, contact Robert Leja at KUNC (robert.leja@kunc.org or 970-350-0822).

 

 

 

KUNC broadcasts at 91.5 FM with a mix of National Public Radio news and Diverse Music.   KUNC serves listeners along the Front Range, as well as Boulder, Breckenridge, Buena Vista, Dillon, Estes Park, Fort Morgan, Grand County, Holyoke, Julesburg, Leadville, Steamboat Springs, Sterling, Vail/Eagle, Walden, Wray and Yuma.

 

                                                                       

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Community Radio for Northern Colorado





FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                   Contact:  Robert Leja
December 8, 2009                                Phone: (970) 350-0822

KUNC Awards $30,000 In Airtime To 12 Non-Profit Agencies


Greeley Colorado, December 17, 2009:  KUNC, Community Radio for Northern Colorado, has selected 12 non-profit agencies to receive 1-month underwriting contracts with the station during 2010.

One agency will be featured each month, and will receive $2,500 in donated on-air announcements to use as they choose.  Agencies were selected from more than 50 nominations submitted by KUNC listeners.  Nominations were reviewed by the KUNC Community Advisory Board, who selected the 12 agencies.

“KUNC relies on community support, and we are committed to giving back to the community” said General Manager Neil Best said “We're a community radio station, and part of our mission is to strengthen community.  We thought that, by donating underwriting time that would’ve otherwise gone unused, we could help these organizations strengthen their communities.”

Organizations receiving the awards are:  Project Self Sufficiency, Loveland; Fort Collins Homelessness Prevention Initiative; Highland Early Childhood Education Center, Ault; Eldergarden, Greeley; Crossroads Safehouse, Fort Collins; Neighbor 2 Neighbor, Fort Collins; Longmont Humane Society; Foundation on Aging, Fort Collins; Boys & Girls Club of Larimer County; Northern Colorado AIDS Project; Veterans Green Jobs, Denver; and Eldora Special Recreation Program, Boulder.

KUNC serves listeners along the Front Range, as well as Boulder, Breckenridge, Buena Vista, Dillon, Estes Park, Golden and west Denver, Grand County, Holyoke, Julesburg, Leadville, Morgan County, Steamboat Springs, Sterling, Vail/Eagle, Walden, Wray and Yuma.
                        
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Turn Up Your World

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822 Seventh St, Suite 530, Greeley, CO 80631  970.378.2579 (p)  970.378.2580 (f)





KUNC Purchases Eagle County Station

Greeley Colorado, December 9, 2009:  KUNC, Community Radio for Northern Colorado, has reached an agreement to purchase a new radio station to serve Eagle County at 90.7 FM.  The agreement with Cedar Cove Broadcasting, Inc. allows KUNC’s broadcast signal to cover Eagle County.

General Manager Neil Best said “The new station will also provide a signal feed to our translator at 99.7 FM, allowing us for the first time to have a consistent broadcast signal from Castle Peak.”  Best added, “I am very happy to be able to make this announcement.  As our many listeners in the area know, delivering a quality signal has been challenging for many years.  Completion of this project is the culmination of our commitment to deliver a consistently high-quality signal that will match the quality of our programming.”

The new station will be called KVNC, pending approval of the call letters by the FCC. It will be licensed to Minturn, and broadcast from Dowd Junction.

KVNC will be rebroadcasting the same National Public Radio shows and locally produced Diverse Music programming that KUNC offers along the Front Range, from its main studio in Greeley.

KUNC has provided service to Eagle County since 1984 via a translator that had been fed from a separate broadcast translator on Castle Peak.  The new station license provides increased signal strength and protection from interference that has impacted reception in the area. 

The station is expected to be on the air with in the next six to eight weeks, according to Best.

“We are excited that Eagle County residents will now have consistent, clear reception for national programs such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Car Talk and A Prairie Home Companion, in addition to KUNC’s award-winning regional news coverage and Diverse Music,” says Best 

KUNC serves listeners along the Front Range, as well as Boulder, Breckenridge, Buena Vista, Dillon, Estes Park, Golden and west Denver, Grand County, Holyoke, Julesburg, Leadville, Morgan County, Steamboat Springs, Sterling, Vail/Eagle, Walden, Wray and Yuma.
                        




Your FM Source For NPR




FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                            Contact:  Robert Leja
June 17, 2009                                                Phone: 970.350.0822


KUNC Improves Signal Coverage in Golden area

Greeley Colorado, June 17, 2009:  National Public Radio fans in the Golden, Arvada, Wheat Ridge and Lakewood area now have another option, as KUNC-FM, Community Radio for Northern Colorado, can be heard at 91.7 FM, thanks to a new translator that signed on yesterday afternoon.  

The new translator will return a clear KUNC broadcast signal to an area that was adversely affected when the station’s main transmitter moved to a new location in July, 2007.  According to General Manager Neil Best, the new translator is another step in fulfilling the mission of Community Radio for Northern Colorado.  “Ever since we moved our transmitter to increase our overall service area, we’ve been looking for an opportunity to restore a clear signal to those listeners who were no longer able to receive the station clearly,” Best said.  “We’re excited that we’ve finally been able to accomplish that.”

The Golden translator adds to KUNC’s network of stations and translators that serve communities both in the metro area and rural areas of the state.  KUNC can now be heard in Denver and along the Front Range at its primary frequency 91.5 FM, with additional service in Boulder, Buena Vista, Estes Park, Grand County, Holyoke, Julesburg, Leadville, Morgan County, Salida, Steamboat Springs, Sterling, Summit County. Vail/Eagle, Wray and Yuma.

KUNC is a community radio station, and was the first Colorado public radio station to join National Public Radio, and was the first to offer national programs such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Car Talk and A Prairie Home Companion, to the state. In addition, KUNC offers award-winning regional news coverage and Diverse Music each weekday, blending classical, jazz, acoustic, singer-songwriter and world music.
                         
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Turn Up Your World

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