radio

NWPR hires new sales manager

RICHLAND – David Deeney, recent general manager of the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites in Pasco, has been hired as the local sales manager for Northwest Public Radio and KTNW-TV at WSU. Deeney will be based in the stations’ Richland office. Deeney’s experience includes radio production, sales and marketing in North Central Idaho as […]

NWPR boosts signal

Northwest Public Radio, the public radio service of WSU, has announced a significant upgrade of its Mount Vernon station, KMWS, a change that also includes a new frequency for the station. Northwest Public Radio has moved the KMWS transmitter to a new and higher transmitter site on Butler Hill. Coupled with a power boost from […]

Sports, other broadcasts keep him hopping

(Photo by Kelly Peterson, WSU Today intern).  Jerry Kyllo has always loved electronics. While growing up in LaCrosse, Wash., he got his start helping out at his uncle’s radio and TV repair business. After experimenting with sound systems and demo recording, Kyllo eventually landed a role at WSU as the chief broadcast engineer for the […]

Oral history project rolls into town

StoryCorps, a national initiative to document everyday history and the unique stories of America, will arrive on the Palouse Thursday, Aug., 25. Washington State University’s Northwest Public Radio will host the effort to collect the stories of area residents. StoryCorps is the largest oral history project ever undertaken, with more than 2,000 stories already collected […]