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KGOU (106.3 Hertz) is a non-commercial, listener-supported, public radio radio station. It is licensed to Norman, Oklahoma, and serves the Oklahoma City Metroplex. "KGOU." Accessed December 23, 2017. It is owned by the University of Oklahoma, with the license held by the Board of Regents. It is operated by OU's College of Continuing Education (OU Outreach). Studios are in Copeland Hall on Van Vleet Oval, part of the OU campus. The staff consists of ten full-time and four part-time employees.
KGOU is a Class A FM station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 6,000 . The transmitter is on East Indian Hills Road at 60th Avenue NE in Norman. Radio-Locator.com/KGOU Programming is also heard on four full-power satellites: KROU (105.7 FM) in Spencer, KWOU (88.1 FM) in Woodward, KOUA (91.9 FM) in Ada, and KQOU (89.1 FM) in Clinton. It also operates in Seminole (103.1 FM), in Ada (97.9 FM), in Chickasha (106.9 FM) and in Shawnee (105.1 FM).
On weekdays at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. and most of the day on weekends, KGOU airs one-hour specialty shows from NPR and other public radio networks. They include Reveal, Radiolab, Freakonomics Radio, This American Life, Zorba Paster, Snap Judgment, The TED Radio Hour, The Splendid Table, To the Best of Our Knowledge, Rick Steves, Left, Right and Center and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. Weekend evenings have shows devoted to world music, blues, bossa nova, new age, Broadway theatre and Hollywood .
In the early 1980s, OU decided to use KGOU as a public radio station and discontinue the rock music and commercial ads. The university applied to the FCC for a non-commercial license. The station's new public radio format, featuring news and talk, took effect on New Year's Day, 1983. The studios were originally located in Kaufman Hall on the OU campus.
KGOU's main signal operates at 6,000 watts, which is fairly modest for a full NPR member station on the FM band. By contrast, Oklahoma State University's public radio station, 91.7 KOSU Stillwater, is powered at 100,000 watts and can also be heard in Oklahoma City. Soon after joining NPR, OU sought a license for a repeater station that would better cover Oklahoma City's northern suburbs. This station, 105.7 KROU, officially signed on the air on 06/28/93. This means listeners in the suburbs south of Oklahoma City can tune in 106.3 KGOU while those north of Oklahoma City can listen to 105.7 KROU. KROU was the first in a network of eight repeater stations and FM translator that cover much of central and western Oklahoma.
KGOU renovated space in Copeland Hall on the OU campus in 2006. It moved its studios and offices to Copeland Hall that fall.
A rebroadcaster in Clinton was added in December 2017. Cameron University transferred the license for a station at 89.1 FM to KGOU ownership. The move expanded KGOU's listener base to 32 counties, nearly all in central, western and east-central Oklahoma. The new call sign for the Clinton transmitter is KQOU. Pryor, Dick. "KGOU adds Clinton transmitter." KGOU. December 6, 2017. Accessed December 23, 2017. It has an ERP of 40,000 watts, the most powerful station in KGOU's network. Radio-Locator.com/KQOU
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