KUCV
KUCV signed on for the first time in 1967, originally owned by Union College, a liberal arts institution affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
[3] In March 1967, the college applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to replace KVUC with an FM station at 91.3 MHz.
[4] The FCC granted the permit for the 10-watt outlet in May,[5] and KUCV began broadcasting on October 22, 1967, airing 35 hours of programming a week.
[1] Originally primarily airing taped educational programming, much of it from other colleges,[6] KUCV began airing evening classical music programming in 1975 and planned a power increase and the beginning of stereo broadcasting;[7] in 1977, an Adventist radio station in Tennessee donated a 200-foot (61 m) tower to the college to increase the station's coverage area.
[8] As part of the upgrades, KUCV moved to the former College View Public Library near the campus[9] at 49th and Prescott streets, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
[4] Union College applied to boost KUCV's effective radiated power to 20,000 watts in May 1978, concurrent with a proposed move to 90.9 mHz.
[16] After the change, the station had to provide band-pass filters for Lincoln television viewers who complained of interference to reception of WOWT.
[17] KUCV's power expansion came at a time when the establishment of a statewide public radio network was under debate and opposed by commercial broadcasters.
[27] However, commercial broadcasters balked at making KUCV the key station in the proposed network because it continued to offer some Adventist religious programs, filing an objection with the FCC.
[32] That April, governor Bob Kerrey signed a bill authorizing the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission (NETC), parent of NETV, to own public radio stations in areas previously without them, though no funding was provided;[33] in August, McBride proposed the idea of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln taking on KUCV to use as the base for its radio service.
