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The new beautiful KNKR 96.1fm sign is now complete and up in time for our Open House tomorrow. Thank you Pete Sullenberger, Engineering Director, for the wonderful artistic work; it looks fantastic! And, thank you David Ebrahimi, our Training Director, for pointing it out.

The first 100 visitors to KNKR Open House tomorrow will receive a free KNKR radio!* Doors open at 10am. KNKR 96.1FM will have an Open House tomorrow, Saturday, April 18, 10am-noon at the KNKR Studio. Everyone is invited to attend, take a tour of the studios, learn more about KNKR Community Radio, volunteer for a position needed, volunteer to do a radio show of your own, see and hear the […]

History of Kohala Radio The idea of Kohala Radio has deep roots all the way back to the early 1990's in the fictional town of Cicely, Alaska, the home of Northern Exposure. This TV show and its radio station, KBHR 570 AM, captured a large Kohala audience and kindled an interesting question: could we ever have a station here? At that time there was no interest at the Federal Communications […]

With the assistance of all the amazing hard working volunteers; KNKR's On Air Studio is moving along. Yesterday, a group of volunteers were able to test out the microphones, turntables, and CD players. Beautiful music was heard from the many vinyls that were played, generously donated to KNKR by Ron Becker. Excellent auditions were played from would be on air volunteer hosts and dj's. The Program Meeting attendees enjoyed listening […]