Community Wireless Of Park City Inc

Each week, kpcw brings listeners more than 80 hours of intentionally eclectic music. Every friday, we feature twelve new songs in the kpcw music library at the top of every hour. Selected tracks are new releases by favorite or newly emerging artists or deep cuts carefully selected to suit our eclectic sound. Annually, we purchase more than 1,000 songs to add to our play list. For context, most commercial radio stations play the same 500 songs repeatedly throughout the year based primarily on chart performance. Our song library on average features nearly 15,000 tracks, including numerous local artists and bands and an ever-expanding playlist of contemporary/new music, rock, blues, reggae, folk and world music.

In addition to airing local, national, and international news, kpcw is committed to educating and informing listeners with our own locally-produced public affairs shows. These feature 2-3 interviews per show and air monday through thursday from 9:00 am - 10:00 am, with a focus on business and finance (mountain money), the environment (this green earth), healthy living (the mountain life) and science and technology (cool science radio). Our public affair shows feature judicial officials, financial advocates, educators, doctors and public health experts, law enforcement officers, legal mediators, and community outreach specialists. On friday and saturday nights, kpcw airs our own arts and culture show focused on jazz music and its roots (rich tones) in conjunction with npr's jazz night in america. On sunday evenings kpcw airs alt latino. Alt latino is a weekly npr program spotlighting the world of latinx arts and culture through music, stories and conversations. All of kpcw's public affairs shows are broadcast and streamed live, and then archived as audio files on our website and as podcast episodes on a variety of podcast platforms.

A key pillar of kpcw's mission is to serve as an umbrella organization for nonprofits across summit and wasatch counties. We offer nonprofit organizations discounted underwriting at 20% below commerical rates, and we encourage them to let us know when they have news and upcoming events. Beyond interviewing these organziations for local news stories and on our public affairs shows, nonprofits can post event details, programming updates, and volunteer opportunities at no charge on the kpcw community calendar. Our djs read nearly 12,000 of these calendar posts as public service announcements (psas) each year, totaling more than $300,000 in free airtime value for area nonprofits annually. And we offer free underwriting credit to nonprofits that join us for our biannual pledge drives, saving them critical marketing expenditures as they work to communicate with the constituencies they serve. In fiscal year 2024, kpcw awarded more than $175,500 in free underwriting credits as our way of thanking local nonprofits for joining us for our 2024 pledge drives.