KRLX
Broadcast area | Northfield, Minnesota |
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Frequency | 88.1 (MHz) |
Branding | KRLX 88.1 FM |
Programming | |
Format | Campus radio |
Ownership | |
Owner | Carleton College |
History | |
First air date | 1948 |
Call sign meaning | Ka RLten(X) |
Technical information | |
Class | A |
ERP | 100 watts |
HAAT | 5 meters |
Links | |
Website | krlx.org |
KRLX is a student-run,
In the fall of 2005, KRLX introduced podcasting for all of its non-music shows, including all of the station's original news programming and Periscope.
Beginning in 2005, The Princeton Review began ranking KRLX as one of the nation's top college radio stations. In 2009, KRLX was ranked the 12th best station in the country.[1] By 2018, it had moved up to position #4 on the Princeton Review list of best college radio stations.[2]
In March 2020, Nicole Collins led the station in restarting its music arts and culture magazine, No Fidelity, which had previously gone defunct in 2015. The publication also doubles as a record label, releasing compilations of music made by Carleton students. It has since published over ten issues and receives over $3,000 in funding annually.
History
Carleton College radio started in 1917 with the Music Department's initiative to bring radio to Northfield, MN. With an antenna mounted atop Willis Hall, this
During the early 70s, station manager James Stiles led the effort to take the station to the broadcast airwaves. Washington DC Carl alums assisted with the FCC licensing process, and by 1975 a boxy FM transmitter had arrived on campus. After a winter of engineering challenges, chief engineer Ben Stiegler (with a lot of help from consultant John Rooks and the MPR engineering team) achieved the first broadcast and the greater Northfield area tuned in. For a brief time, KRLX retained the carrier current operation as a training ground for new DJs; eventually it was decommissioned.
KRLX is one of the most popular student organizations at Carleton, with over 200 students DJs each trimester—roughly one out of every eight students.[4]
Programming
KRLX's format-free nature makes for very diverse programming, and recently the station has started to program vertically so that similar shows are scheduled consecutively. Radio programs on KRLX run the gamut from bluegrass to independent hip hop to classical, and DJs are restricted only by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) guidelines. Despite the station's flexibility, there are several long-running programs that are consistent in format, if not in content. Bandemonium is a weekly show devoted to the works of a single band, tracing artists' history and influences. Periscope is the station's documentary program, and the station also programs evening news and hourly news briefs. Although almost all of KRLX's programming has its genesis at Carleton, the station also broadcasts the syndicated news program Democracy Now! KRLX's content largely consists of music broadcasting, and the station contributes to the College Media Journal Radio 200 chart.
KRLX's programming can be heard around the world via live stream from their Web site.
Technical data
- Service Designation: Full Service FM Site
- Channel & Class: 201A, 88.1 MHz
- FCC Facility Identification: 8867
- Location:
- Effective Radiated Power (ERP): 0.1 kW (100 watt)
- Antenna Height Above Average Terrain: 5 M HAAT
- Antenna Height Above Mean Sea Level: 309 M AMSL
- Antenna Height Above Ground Level: 20 M AGL
External links
- www.krlx.org KRLX web site
- KRLX in the FCC FM station database
- KRLX in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
References
- ^ "Best College Radio Station". Princeton Review. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
- ^ "2018 Princeton Review "Best College Radio Station" List is Released - Radio Survivor". Radio Survivor. 2017-08-02. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
- ^ Urbanski, Debbie (1998-04-10). "CARLETON COLLEGE'S STUDENT-RUN RADIO STATION TURNS 50".
- ^ "College Radio stations in Southern Minnesota defy the norm". Southern Minn Scene. 2018-05-14. Retrieved 2018-05-23.