This enables the station to receive annual grant monies from CPB for Programming and Operations.įor nearly a decade, community volunteers worked to make KAFM a reality. It becomes the 16th (lucky number) non-commercial radio station in Colorado to gain certification from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). KAFM, 88.1 FM, all 16 watts of it (the 88.1 signal blankets the Grand Valley), has just reached another milestone. The story of KAFM is one of battles lost and won through heightened expectations, lean times, perseverance, and amazing technical prowess. It is entitled, New Program for Wounded Soliders.įor some of you reading this it may not sound like a big deal, until you delve into the history of grass roots, non-commercial radio in Grand Junction. Here is a link to Eric Whitney's most recent feature on Colorado Public Radio. In the meantime, you can catch Eric Whitney during Morning Edition on 1340-AM in Denver, and on 90.1 FM HD2 if you have an HD radio in your car, in hour pickup, in your house, in your boat, on your motorcycle, on your snowmobile, on your lawn mower, on your scooter, in your tractor-that is, if you haven't already donated all of your vehicles to "support the programming" at Colorado Public Radio.ĭid I forget to mention that you can hear CPR are on the web at cpr.org,, and podcasting all 30 minutes of Colorado Matters on the NPR website? It's called CPR Everywhere! They're HUGE! Colorado Matters is biggest 30 minutes of news in Colorado. Then they will have 1 whole reporter on staff. Eric Whitney of KRCC-FM in Colorado Springs! I can't wait for the the new Health Reporter to start at Colorado Public Radio in FY2009. The survey found that on a global basis, people were most likely to believe what they see on national television, with an overwhelming 82% of people saying that they trusted it as a news source.Who's the hardest working "reporter" at Colorado Public Radio? It used to be Kirk Siegler of Aspen Public Radio that is, until he moved to Denver to take a job with KUNC-FM. The Daily Mail is the most-trusted newspaper in the UK, mentioned by 3% of people ahead of The Times and Daily Telegraph, each on 2%, and The Guardian, mentioned by 1% of people. In the US, Rupert Murdoch's Fox and CNN were the most trusted, polling 11% each. It was followed by ITV News at 8% and Sky News at 7%. Other developing countries had similarly high levels of trust in the media, it was only for Russia, the US and the UK that trust levels slipped below the 60% mark - although the British remain the most sceptical.īBC News is the most trusted specific news source, mentioned spontaneously by 32% of those polled. Nigerians were the most likely people to trust the media, with 88% saying they believe journalists and only 34% saying that they believed their government.
The findings buck the global trend, where 61% of people believe the media, compared with 52% for governments, according to the research by the BBC, Reuters and the Media Center.
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