FEATURE
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KJHK HISTORY
Sources: Tom Johnson, KJHK general manager; KUHistory.com
1956
The University gets its first campus radio station in KUOK, a hyper-local AM station with a listening area that only reached across campus.
1974
Photo by Jerry Wang
The Federal Communications Commission grants the University an FM license and KJHK — 90.7FM — is born.
1973
KUOK's studios are moved from Flint Hall (now Stauffer-Flint Hall) to the Sudler garage, the former carriage house of the Sudler Home, now the Max Kade Center for German-American Studies.
Oct.15,1975
1988
KJHK begins broadcasting with a live-remote in front of Wescoe Hall.
KJHK is forced to remove all of its music with expletives and slightly reel in its free-spirited nature after being heavily fined for a DJ's repeated yelling of "Fuck you, Billy Tubbs" over the air.
1994
2004
KJHK becomes the first radio station to have a continuous live stream of its programming available on the Internet.
The University cuts KJHK's funding and, no longer a part of the journalism school, the station struggles to survive until KU Memorial Unions takes control. Part of the agreement between the Union and the University was the eventual move of the station to the Kansas Union. Construction began on this project in November 2009.
April 2010
An entirely new, state-of-the-art station is scheduled to open on the third floor of the Kansas Union.
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