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KBOO
KBOO (90.7 MHz) is a non-commercial, listener-supported, community radio station in Portland, Oregon. It airs an eclectic radio format, with a small paid staff and scores of volunteers. The studios are on SE 8th Avenue, in a converted warehouse in inner Southeast Portland, purchased in 1982. The mission is to serve groups that are underrepresented on other local radio stations and to provide access to the airwaves for people who have unconventional or controversial tastes and points of view.
KBOO is a Class C1 FM station, heard around much of Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 26,500 watts, with its transmitter on SW Fairmont Court on Portland's West Hills. KBOO is also heard on two FM translators: in Philomath, Oregon at 104.3 FM and in Hood River, along the Columbia River Gorge, at 91.9 FM.
A group of Portlanders, unsatisfied with the choices offered by local radio stations, organized themselves as "Portland Listener Supported Radio" in 1964. They approached Lorenzo Milam, a former volunteer at Pacifica Radio's KPFA in Berkeley, who helped start KRAB, a now-defunct community station in Seattle.
Milam agreed to help them organize a station, and after a series of meetings, Portland Listener Supported Radio applied for a license for a Portland radio station. In time, Milam helped several other communities start their stations, including KCHU, WAIF, WORT, KDNA, KTAO, and KUSP.
Milam asked KRAB volunteer David Calhoun if he'd be willing to help organize the new station in Portland. Calhoun, an ex-monk and third-year medical student, packed his VW with a transmitter from Seattle and moved south.
Sleeping on couches and struggling to find meals, Calhoun and other volunteers including Fray Haertig (who continues to volunteer currently) put together the resources needed for a community radio station. A basement room was donated on Third Street and Salmon Street in downtown Portland. The space was barely big enough for two tape recorders, one turntable, and Calhoun. A diverse mix of about thirty volunteers came together to help out, including society women, movement radicals, professional broadcast engineers, and musicians.
KBOO Community Radio signed on the air on June 3, 1968. The cost was less than $4,000. The total monthly station budget was about $50. The total output initially was only ten watts, a fraction of the current output. The call sign makes reference to a strain of marijuana called "Berkeley Boo".
Initially, KBOO was on the air when volunteers were available to flip a switch and activate the repeater signal from KRAB. But almost immediately, the station began to grow. KBOO volunteers lugged big Ampex tape recorders to concerts, political events, and neighborhood meetings; nationally recognized artists and activists were brought into the KBOO studio. Local poets discovered the electronic outlet.
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KBOO
KBOO (90.7 MHz) is a non-commercial, listener-supported, community radio station in Portland, Oregon. It airs an eclectic radio format, with a small paid staff and scores of volunteers. The studios are on SE 8th Avenue, in a converted warehouse in inner Southeast Portland, purchased in 1982. The mission is to serve groups that are underrepresented on other local radio stations and to provide access to the airwaves for people who have unconventional or controversial tastes and points of view.
KBOO is a Class C1 FM station, heard around much of Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 26,500 watts, with its transmitter on SW Fairmont Court on Portland's West Hills. KBOO is also heard on two FM translators: in Philomath, Oregon at 104.3 FM and in Hood River, along the Columbia River Gorge, at 91.9 FM.
A group of Portlanders, unsatisfied with the choices offered by local radio stations, organized themselves as "Portland Listener Supported Radio" in 1964. They approached Lorenzo Milam, a former volunteer at Pacifica Radio's KPFA in Berkeley, who helped start KRAB, a now-defunct community station in Seattle.
Milam agreed to help them organize a station, and after a series of meetings, Portland Listener Supported Radio applied for a license for a Portland radio station. In time, Milam helped several other communities start their stations, including KCHU, WAIF, WORT, KDNA, KTAO, and KUSP.
Milam asked KRAB volunteer David Calhoun if he'd be willing to help organize the new station in Portland. Calhoun, an ex-monk and third-year medical student, packed his VW with a transmitter from Seattle and moved south.
Sleeping on couches and struggling to find meals, Calhoun and other volunteers including Fray Haertig (who continues to volunteer currently) put together the resources needed for a community radio station. A basement room was donated on Third Street and Salmon Street in downtown Portland. The space was barely big enough for two tape recorders, one turntable, and Calhoun. A diverse mix of about thirty volunteers came together to help out, including society women, movement radicals, professional broadcast engineers, and musicians.
KBOO Community Radio signed on the air on June 3, 1968. The cost was less than $4,000. The total monthly station budget was about $50. The total output initially was only ten watts, a fraction of the current output. The call sign makes reference to a strain of marijuana called "Berkeley Boo".
Initially, KBOO was on the air when volunteers were available to flip a switch and activate the repeater signal from KRAB. But almost immediately, the station began to grow. KBOO volunteers lugged big Ampex tape recorders to concerts, political events, and neighborhood meetings; nationally recognized artists and activists were brought into the KBOO studio. Local poets discovered the electronic outlet.