Radio Ink

KNKX Enlists Jazz Radio Vet Handley

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 ...
KNKX Public Radio

Part of Seattle's past — and future? A look at a possible Sonics return

The SuperSonics are closer than ever to returning to Seattle, 18 years after the NBA team was sold and moved to Oklahoma City ...
Current

KNKX finds blessings, burdens in taking reins as independent station

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 ...
News Tribune

Public radio station KNKX goes from the brink of doom to new downtown Tacoma digs

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 ...
News Tribune

The public radio station that Seattle almost snapped up has announced a move to downtown Tacoma

Pacific Lutheran University students were joined by KPLU (now KNKX) radio station listeners on Dec. 3, 2015 to show support for the school’s radio station after the school announced a sale to Seattle ...
Radio Ink

KNKX-FM Moving To New Building

KNKX-FM plays jazz, blues, Northwest and NPR news. The public radio station has the largest radio footprint in the state. The station was founded in 1966 as a licensee of Pacific Lutheran University ...
seattlepi.com

Listener-rescued KPLU public radio dons new call letters -- KNKX

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 ...
seattlepi.com

KNKX public radio finds new home away from Pacific Lutheran University

Public radio station KNKX is bidding good-bye to Pacific Lutheran University. The station, formerly owned by PLU and known as KPLU, has found a new home in Tacoma, and will relocate from the PLU ...
Yakima Herald-Republic

Ken Wiley, KNKX radio host of ‘Art of Jazz,’ dies at 87

If you’re a jazz fan in the Pacific Northwest, you know the voice: a deliberate, raspy drawl on the Sunday airwaves, imbued with a kind of self-administering static that matched the century-old 78 ...
KING5

Tacoma-based public radio KPLU will be called KNKX

TACOMA, Wash. - The Tacoma-based public radio station KPLU will get a new call letters, after supporters raised enough money to buy the station from Pacific Lutheran University. The station will be ...
Seattle Times

KPLU renamed KNKX (pronounced ‘connects’)

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 ...