Nevada Public Radio

Nevada Public Radio
Logo of Nevada Public Radio
Donald W. Reynolds Broadcast Center
TypePublic Radio
Country
Headquarters1289 S. Torrey Pines Dr.
Reynolds Broadcast Center
College of Southern Nevada
Las Vegas, NV 89146
Programming
AffiliationsAmerican Public Media, BBC World Service, National Public Radio
Ownership
Key people
  • Favian Perez, CEO
  • Heidi Kyser, Managing Editor
  • Joe Schoenmann, Sr. Producer
History
FoundedMarch 24, 1980 (1980-03-24)
by Lamar Marchese
Coverage
AvailabilityNevada, E. California, NW Arizona, SW Utah, and worldwide (online
Stations
Transmitters
  • K219LM 91.7 FM Havasu City
  • K201AD 88.1 FM China Lake
  • K219AV 91.7 FM Beatty
  • K208BB 89.5 FM Laughlin
  • K201HX 88.1 FM Mesquite
  • K210ET 89.9 FM Moapa
  • K207CY 89.3 FM Round Mountain
  • K201BF 88.1 FM Scotty's Junction
Links
WebcastListen live
Websiteknpr.org

Nevada Public Radio is a non-profit, listener-supported public radio network located in Las Vegas and serves all of Nevada. The network consists three stations, KNPR News (88.9 FM) and KCNV Classical (89.7 FM) both out of Las Vegas and KVNV (89.1 FM) out of Reno along with four additional simulcast stations and 11 translators. The network airs digitally online, through apps, and through HD Radio. It also publishes a city-regional magazine, Desert Companion, primarily focused on Clark County and the desert southwest, circulating 25,000 copies a month.

Nevada Public Radio was the state's first NPR member station, founded in 1975 as an organization with its first broadcast in 1980. In addition to national and international programming from NPR, American Public Media, the Public Radio Exchange and the BBC, its studios produce original, local programming such as the current-events State of Nevada program and Desert Blooms, a weekly gardening program.

Beginning as a grass-roots, husband and wife operation based on the property of Sam Boyd Stadium, it now broadcasts from the Donald W. Reynolds Broadcast Center on the West Charleston campus of the College of Southern Nevada.