KCPR

KCPR San Luis Obispo is a non-profit freeform college radio station at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, California. Its operating frequency is 91.3 MHz FM. KCPR also streams its programming online 24 hours a day.

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• weird al yankovic college radio commercials kcpr 1978 1979
• Industrial distortion kcpr radio show in mid 1990s
• Notable KCPR Alumni
• References

KCPR's first broadcast occurred with a small two-watt transmitter in the fall of 1968. According to station lore, the first words spoken on-air were, "Is this the damn switch?"

Alfred (Weird Al) Yankovic was a DJ at KCPR when he was an undergraduate architecture student at the university. Yankovic recorded his iconic parody song "My Bologna" in the bathroom that stands across the hall from the station's original location on the second floor of the Graphic Arts Building (building 26) on the Cal Poly campus. He later returned to the station for an interview during the 1990s, where he recorded a station ID that can still be heard on air. In the summer of 2008, KCPR moved to a new studio in the same building after 39 years of continuous operation.

Former KCPR DJ and Cal Poly professor Jim Cushing described the station's musical philosophy this way: “to provide people with a blend of music that they will not find on any other station, to remind people that the musical culture belongs to them.”

KCPR is currently known as "Cal Poly Radio," and previously "Burnt Dog Radio," an axiom that is reflected in one of the station's early logo designs that featured the RCA Victor dog.

Notable programs that have anchored the KCPR program schedule for years include "The Breakfast Club", "Afternoon Delight", "The Comedown", "The Lounge", and "Club 91."