As Valentine's Day approaches, KNKX is tuning in to love by sprinkling some timeless jazz classics and modern gems into our ...

88.5 KNKX was a big winner at the 2019 PRNDI (Public Radio News Directors, Inc.) Conference on June 15, garnering four national awards, all for the station’s locally-produced storytelling show, Sound ...

Dick Stein finally felt comfortable telling the story — the real story. At long last, he was ready to come clean. “Maybe since we’re doing, ‘now it can be told,’ I can tell you the truth,” Stein said ...

Employees at Washington public radio station KNKX are navigating the ups and downs of freedom from university ownership a year after their successful campaign to buy their independence. But after they ...

88.5 KNKX/Seattle-Tacoma, WA, has hired Northwest Jazz radio veteran Carol Handley as its new Director of Music Programming, starting August 20. Handley comes to KNKX with decades of music programming ...

Fischer will succeed Joey Cohn, who announced his retirement earlier this year. He will begin in the role full-time Nov. 18 after a period of overlap with Cohn. Fischer is “a highly-regarded and ...

As of Wednesday morning, after a 10-month struggle, public-radio station KPLU is independent and is broadcasting as KNKX (pronounced “connects”). The saga began in November, when KPLU discovered that ...

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The newly saved public-radio station KPLU has a new name: KNKX, or “Connects.” The station had to change its call letters as part of the deal that bought its independence from Pacific Lutheran ...

After a rescue campaign that raised $7 million-plus from listeners, KPLU-FM radio will soon be wearing new call letters -- KNKX. The jazz-blues-news station will assume its new name once the group ...

Three and a half years ago, loyal fans fought to save the radio station. Now, KNKX will open its new downtown Tacoma studio this weekend. KNKX has spent the past five and a half months transforming ...