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KDPS
KDPS was a radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. The station was owned by Des Moines Public Schools. The school district programs the station with a variety of rock music styles and staffs it with high school students who are learning radio.
Kids Radio Mania was the station's weekend radio programming format that continues online with YouTube specials. Kids Radio Mania is produced by Professor Stephen Winzenburg, who oversaw the radio program at Grand View University for almost 30 years. From 2001-2025 Kids Radio Mania aired weekends and holidays throughout the year on KDPS when the Des Moines Public Schools owned the station. Since 2025 Kids Radio Mania regularly posts new content for children on YouTube @KidsRadioMania.
Kids Radio Mania started in 1992 as a four-hour Saturday morning kids music format. Originally produced on large one-hour reel-to-reel tapes, the format used the little amount of children's music that was available at the time. The Saturday morning format lasted for three years, until a national children's radio format from Disney came to the Des Moines market on an AM station (which only lasted for a year).
The Kids Radio Mania format was revived as an all-weekend station format on KDPS on the weekend of March 31 and April 1, 2001. From a small collection of children's CDs the station grew to a library of over 600 CDs and airs pre-teen pop music, such as Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana, Hilary Duff, Aaron Carter, Raven, the A-Teens and Jesse McCartney. It also plays many of the kids classics, such as Raffi, Barney, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and Hampton the Hampster.
Shortly after the all-weekend format was started, the station was approached by local public television host Dan Wardell to start a weekly live children's call-in show. Crazy Dave's Kid Show started the first weekend of August in 2001 and aired every Saturday morning at 10:30 for ten years. The show received calls from all over the world, including Sweden, Australia, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and California. Some of the edited Crazy Dave recordings are available on YouTube at the Kids Radio Mania page.
In 2006 KDPS started awarding the annual "Family Favorite Awards," given to children's recording artists for best album, best singer, best song and best album packaging.
Unlike the few other commercial children's radio stations in the United States, Kids Radio Mania was a non-commercial venture that did not air any inappropriate pop music. The station also did not focus on simplistic guitar-and-vocalist songs but offered a wide variety of upbeat music material that the entire family could enjoy. Each week about 30 songs were on the station's "hot" list of tunes played every three to four hours. Another 120 songs were mixed in throughout the weekend and a featured artist was played hourly in the rotation.
Educational segments on Kids Radio Mania included hourly segments from past Crazy Dave's Kid Show, weekly historical information, "The Thesaurus Forest," "The Name Hall of Fame," "Animal Adventures," "The State of the Week," "The Birthday Buddy" and "The Presidential Profile."
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KDPS was a radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. The station was owned by Des Moines Public Schools. The school district programs the station with a variety of rock music styles and staffs it with high school students who are learning radio.
Kids Radio Mania was the station's weekend radio programming format that continues online with YouTube specials. Kids Radio Mania is produced by Professor Stephen Winzenburg, who oversaw the radio program at Grand View University for almost 30 years. From 2001-2025 Kids Radio Mania aired weekends and holidays throughout the year on KDPS when the Des Moines Public Schools owned the station. Since 2025 Kids Radio Mania regularly posts new content for children on YouTube @KidsRadioMania.
Kids Radio Mania started in 1992 as a four-hour Saturday morning kids music format. Originally produced on large one-hour reel-to-reel tapes, the format used the little amount of children's music that was available at the time. The Saturday morning format lasted for three years, until a national children's radio format from Disney came to the Des Moines market on an AM station (which only lasted for a year).
The Kids Radio Mania format was revived as an all-weekend station format on KDPS on the weekend of March 31 and April 1, 2001. From a small collection of children's CDs the station grew to a library of over 600 CDs and airs pre-teen pop music, such as Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana, Hilary Duff, Aaron Carter, Raven, the A-Teens and Jesse McCartney. It also plays many of the kids classics, such as Raffi, Barney, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and Hampton the Hampster.
Shortly after the all-weekend format was started, the station was approached by local public television host Dan Wardell to start a weekly live children's call-in show. Crazy Dave's Kid Show started the first weekend of August in 2001 and aired every Saturday morning at 10:30 for ten years. The show received calls from all over the world, including Sweden, Australia, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and California. Some of the edited Crazy Dave recordings are available on YouTube at the Kids Radio Mania page.
In 2006 KDPS started awarding the annual "Family Favorite Awards," given to children's recording artists for best album, best singer, best song and best album packaging.
Unlike the few other commercial children's radio stations in the United States, Kids Radio Mania was a non-commercial venture that did not air any inappropriate pop music. The station also did not focus on simplistic guitar-and-vocalist songs but offered a wide variety of upbeat music material that the entire family could enjoy. Each week about 30 songs were on the station's "hot" list of tunes played every three to four hours. Another 120 songs were mixed in throughout the weekend and a featured artist was played hourly in the rotation.
Educational segments on Kids Radio Mania included hourly segments from past Crazy Dave's Kid Show, weekly historical information, "The Thesaurus Forest," "The Name Hall of Fame," "Animal Adventures," "The State of the Week," "The Birthday Buddy" and "The Presidential Profile."