Last November, Pacific Lutheran University announced it was selling local National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate KPLU-FM to the University of Washington (UW). KPLU’s newsroom would be disbanded and its ...

Our regional public radio station KPLU.FM is now KNKX.FM.The public insurrection by 18,000 Friends was successful in raising the $7 million to match the secret deal between Pacific Lutheran ...

After a rescue campaign that raised $7 million-plus from listeners, KPLU-FM radio will soon be wearing new call letters -- KNKX. The jazz-blues-news station will assume its new name once the ...

The university agreed to sell KPLU radio to a newly formed community group. That cancels KUOW's agreement to purchase the station. The group Friends of 88.5 FM has already raised the $7 million ...

The non-profit Friends of 88.5 FM has reached a deal with Pacific Lutheran University to purchase KPLU. After 50 years of serving Western Washington under PLU, 88.5 is set to become an independent ...

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Pacific Lutheran University has agreed to sell its public radio station, KPLU-FM, to a community group that raised $7 million in an effort to preserve the local National ...

In November, Pacific Lutheran University announced it would sell the licence for KPLU 88.5 FM to another public radio station in the area owned by the University of Washington. But as the station ...

In less than six months, the “Save KPLU” campaign reached its goal of raising $7 million. Now the Friends of 88.5 FM can make an offer to buy KPLU(FM), Tacoma, Washington from owner Pacific ...

KPLU announced Thursday morning that the SAVE KPLU campaign had reached its fundraising goal of $7 million. The group Friends of 88-5 FM will use the funds the make an offer to buy the license ...

KPLU in Tacoma, Wash., is taking a major step towards independence after a nonprofit group established to buy the station’s license reached its $7 million fundraising goal Thursday. The nonprofit ...