The station license and studio facility are owned by Eugene School District 4J, but the school district provides no direct funding to the station; all funding comes from listener supporters, business underwriters, and the Corporation For Public Broadcasting.
The first words ever spoken on FM radio in the Pacific Northwest were broadcast on KRVM on December 6, 1947,[3] and the station formally opened in early 1948.
[4] It was the only educational FM station west of Minneapolis and north of San Francisco and just the twelfth in the United States.
[7] During the day on weekdays, KRVM features a progressive adult album alternative music format with students handling much of the hosting and voice tracking.
Other hours feature specialty programming encompassing many genres of music, including "Breakfast With The Blues" every morning.