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KSIV-FM
KSIV-FM (91.5 MHz) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station in St. Louis, Missouri. It is one of two Bott Radio Network stations in Greater St. Louis airing a Christian talk and teaching radio format. Sister station KSIV 1320 AM carries many of the same programs but at different times. National religious leaders heard on KSIV-AM-FM include Jim Daly, David Jeremiah, Joni Eareckson Tada, Alistair Begg, Greg Laurie, J. Vernon McGee, Chuck Swindoll, Charles Stanley, James Dobson, Michael Youssef and John MacArthur.
KSIV-FM is a Class C1 FM station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 85,000 watts. The transmitter is in Resurrection Cemetery in Shrewsbury, amid the towers for other St. Louis FM and TV stations. It has a construction permit to slightly increase its power and antenna height.
The station has been a Bott outlet since 1996, though the license history stretches back to the 1950 establishment of KSLH, an educational station that was owned by St. Louis Public Schools.
The St. Louis City Board of Education applied to the FCC to construct a new noncommercial FM radio station. It would be used to broadcast educational classroom instruction for St. Louis students. The request was made on September 25, 1944, and permission was granted by the Federal Communications Commission on June 11, 1947. The station took nearly three years to be built. In May 1949, the board approved $60,874 in bids for the construction of the facility at the district's audiovisual building at 1517 S. Theresa Ave. By year's end, construction was nearly complete on the facility, including a 370-foot (110 m) tower, as well as a total of five studios and two control rooms.
KSLH officially signed on the air on April 13, 1950. FM radio was not widely available in that era. Most homes and cars only had AM radios. The school system set up FM receivers in 191 city elementary schools. Despite coming on late in the school year, KSLH quickly settled into a schedule. All but three of the station's initial 15-minute programs were for grade school students. The exceptions were high school fare on poetry, choral music, and business.
KSLH devoted itself almost entirely to instruction in its early years. By 1953, it broadcast from 9:10 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., matching the school day; it produced about 300 educational programs in a given year, alongside content obtained in the National Association of Educational Broadcasters program exchange. Eight different planning committees worked with teachers on the development of radio courses, while many programs aired at different times to suit the needs of the city schools. In its first decade of broadcasting, the station produced 2,878 fifteen-minute programs.
In addition to NAEB-supplied programs, KSLH educational broadcasts were also supplied by the state of Missouri, the United Nations, and even the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the BBC. Among its staff was at least one alumnus who went on to a lengthy career in St. Louis broadcasting: future KMOV-TV anchor Julius Hunter, who at one time taught in the school system, worked at the station as a writer-producer in the late 1960s.
The station would only broadcast during the school day. It was silent on weekends and when school was not in session; Eventually there was an afternoon hour of adult shows. But programming did not expand into evenings with the school system saying the cost of doing so was prohibitive. Even when St. Louis community station KDNA sought to enter into a time-share agreement in 1973 to use the KSLH facility when KSLH was off the air, the board refused, and the FCC rejected the group's petition to force the board into such a situation without its consent.
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KSIV-FM
KSIV-FM (91.5 MHz) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station in St. Louis, Missouri. It is one of two Bott Radio Network stations in Greater St. Louis airing a Christian talk and teaching radio format. Sister station KSIV 1320 AM carries many of the same programs but at different times. National religious leaders heard on KSIV-AM-FM include Jim Daly, David Jeremiah, Joni Eareckson Tada, Alistair Begg, Greg Laurie, J. Vernon McGee, Chuck Swindoll, Charles Stanley, James Dobson, Michael Youssef and John MacArthur.
KSIV-FM is a Class C1 FM station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 85,000 watts. The transmitter is in Resurrection Cemetery in Shrewsbury, amid the towers for other St. Louis FM and TV stations. It has a construction permit to slightly increase its power and antenna height.
The station has been a Bott outlet since 1996, though the license history stretches back to the 1950 establishment of KSLH, an educational station that was owned by St. Louis Public Schools.
The St. Louis City Board of Education applied to the FCC to construct a new noncommercial FM radio station. It would be used to broadcast educational classroom instruction for St. Louis students. The request was made on September 25, 1944, and permission was granted by the Federal Communications Commission on June 11, 1947. The station took nearly three years to be built. In May 1949, the board approved $60,874 in bids for the construction of the facility at the district's audiovisual building at 1517 S. Theresa Ave. By year's end, construction was nearly complete on the facility, including a 370-foot (110 m) tower, as well as a total of five studios and two control rooms.
KSLH officially signed on the air on April 13, 1950. FM radio was not widely available in that era. Most homes and cars only had AM radios. The school system set up FM receivers in 191 city elementary schools. Despite coming on late in the school year, KSLH quickly settled into a schedule. All but three of the station's initial 15-minute programs were for grade school students. The exceptions were high school fare on poetry, choral music, and business.
KSLH devoted itself almost entirely to instruction in its early years. By 1953, it broadcast from 9:10 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., matching the school day; it produced about 300 educational programs in a given year, alongside content obtained in the National Association of Educational Broadcasters program exchange. Eight different planning committees worked with teachers on the development of radio courses, while many programs aired at different times to suit the needs of the city schools. In its first decade of broadcasting, the station produced 2,878 fifteen-minute programs.
In addition to NAEB-supplied programs, KSLH educational broadcasts were also supplied by the state of Missouri, the United Nations, and even the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the BBC. Among its staff was at least one alumnus who went on to a lengthy career in St. Louis broadcasting: future KMOV-TV anchor Julius Hunter, who at one time taught in the school system, worked at the station as a writer-producer in the late 1960s.
The station would only broadcast during the school day. It was silent on weekends and when school was not in session; Eventually there was an afternoon hour of adult shows. But programming did not expand into evenings with the school system saying the cost of doing so was prohibitive. Even when St. Louis community station KDNA sought to enter into a time-share agreement in 1973 to use the KSLH facility when KSLH was off the air, the board refused, and the FCC rejected the group's petition to force the board into such a situation without its consent.