WKAR (AM)

The station's studios and offices are in the Communication Arts and Sciences Building, at the southeast corner of Wilson and Red Cedar Roads on the MSU campus.

[3][4][5] Because 870 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A station WWL New Orleans, WKAR must go off the air at night to avoid interference.

The majority of WKAR's schedule consists of NPR national programming with the BBC World Service heard overnight.

Some NPR shows heard on WKAR include Morning Edition, All Things Considered, 1A, Here and Now and Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

On weekends, the schedule includes Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, The Splendid Table, Latino USA, Travel with Rick Steves, It's Been A Minute, Code Switch and weekly Spanish language shows Edición Semanaria and Que Onda Michigan hosted by Michelle Jokisch Polo.

WKAR 870 and 102.3 offers an all news-and-talk schedule, while sister station WKAR-FM 90.5 plays classical music during middays and at night.

[6] That year Professor Arthur R. Sawyer, head of the School of Electrical Engineering, made a proposal for establishing a broadcast service distributing information of interest to local farmers.

[19] On November 11, 1928, it was assigned to daytime-only operation on 1040 kHz, as part of the Federal Radio Commission's implementation of General Order 40.