With his distinctive voice and encyclopedic knowledge of vintage jazz, Ken Wiley guided generations of music lovers through the genre’s rich history every Sunday for 40 years.

Bill Anschell is steadily gaining a following for his book Benched. It's filled with clever jazz jokes and satirical ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Tacoma, WA, station won five national awards on June 24 at the 2017 PRNDI (Public Radio News Directors, Inc.) Conference, all from the station’s locally-produced culture magazine 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...