from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting allowed the station to begin airing NPR and American Public Radio programs in 1984. It marked a return to NPR for KNAU, which as KAXR had been briefly aligned with the network in 1974. The first two translators were approved in 1985, one on Mount Francis to serve Prescott and one on Mount Elden to serve areas of Flagstaff that experience heavy multipath distortion with signals transmitted from Mormon Mountain. The next year, KNAU was approved to expand its service north and west to Page and Kingman. Also in 1986, KNAU was first to report the crash of an airplane and a helicopter over the Grand Canyon, earning it a Governors' Award from the Associated Press. Growth to two services In 1995, KNAU replaced the 90.7 transmitter on Mount Elden with a new 500-watt full-service station, KNAQ. This station became a separate program service, talk-oriented KPUB, in 2001; the switch was in response to KJZZ in Phoenix losing its Flagstaff translator the year prior, taking with it many longform talk programs that KNAU did not carry. The station moved to new studios on NAU's South Campus in 1998, leaving the Creative Arts Building behind after starting there in 1970. KNAU was honored with three national Edward R. Murrow Awards for small-market radio stations in 2014. Programming KNAU broadcasts classical music from the Classical 24 service and key public radio news programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace, and Fresh Air. KNAU has more talk programs on the weekend, which are simulcast with KPUB. Transmitters and translators Since the activation of its two translators in 1985, KNAU has steadily increased its regional coverage footprint through the construction of translators and high-power stations, as well as content partnerships, including in northern Arizona's Native American communities. In 2002, KNAU assisted in the launch of KUYI on the Hopi reservation by providing access to NPR programming as well as its own local and regional news; this was the second station it had provided NPR programming to, after KGHR in Tuba City. At one time in the mid-2000s, KNAU supported KAWC-FM in Yuma, with KNAU's network operations manager serving as the general manager of KAWC-FM. In 2008, Cellular One of Show Low donated $67,000 to support a satellite interconnection system to improve the signal delivery from Flagstaff, which had been intermittent. References External links NAU News and talk