The donations of KAGI and KSJK in Talent allowed JPR to begin providing a separate news and information station.

The station was put on the air as KUIN by Southern Oregon Broadcasting Company—a group formed by Bill Smullin, founder of California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc., and Grants Pass Daily Courier publisher Amos Voorhies—on December 16, 1939.

[7] In 1961, a sale of the station was made to a group of stockholders known as KAGI, Inc., in which Southern Oregon Broadcasting Company was also an owner.

[8] The sale came a year after Voorhies died; by his death, he had also owned part of three Oregon television stations in association with Smullin.

[11] The donations of the two AM stations allowed the college's Jefferson Public Radio network to begin broadcasting a separate news and information service on the transmitters.