KUOP (91.3 FM) is an NPR-member radio station, licensed to Stockton, California, United States. The station is currently owned by California State University, Sacramento and is part of the news network of CapRadio (formerly Capital Public Radio). From 1947 to 2000, KUOP was the radio station of the University of the Pacific. Capital Public Radio began leasing out KUOP's air time in 2000 and bought the facility outright in 2007. History KCVN The College of the Pacific applied to build a new FM radio station on December 9, 1944. The Federal Communications Commission approved the application on June 27, 1946, and KCVN began broadcasting on September 22, 1947, at 7 p.m. (The KCOP call letters were held by a police facility in Texas which showed no interest in giving them up.) While KCVN was the first broadcasting facility operated by the college, Pacific had a lengthy history in radio. Under director John Crabbe, it established the second radio major in the United States in 1927, and students on the campus could listen to carrier current outlet KAEO, which had been put into service by the Alpha Epsilon Omicron radio fraternity in January 1947. The college also aired programs live over KWG and sent transcriptions to stations in Lodi and Modesto. KCVN's first transmissions were made using an antenna mounted to a pole while a tower was commissioned. The station operated for four hours a day, six days a week, from a converted quonset hut. Becoming KUOP In 1961, the College of the Pacific renamed itself to the University of the Pacific, and KCVN became KUOP on April 12, 1963. Later that year, UOP applied to increase the effective radiated power of the station from 3,400 watts to nearly 30,000; at the same time, the station was relocated to the 9th and top floor the new Robert E. Burns Tower a combination office building and water tank. KUOP received a donation of multiplex equipment allowing it to broadcast in stereo for the first time and making it the first stereo college station on the West Coast. KUOP received a $15,000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 1971, allowing it to expand its daytime service; that year, the station also joined the startup National Public Radio network. (It thus got NPR before Sacramento, which did not have an NPR station until 1979; NPR aired an entire week of All Things