Considered from KUOP in the run-up to the 1976 presidential election.) A major growth step was taken in 1982 when the station filed to move its transmitter to Mount Oso and thereby provide the first public radio service to 300,000 additional people in four counties; the move took place in 1983. The station also developed a significant number of specialty programs, particularly in jazz music. Vince Marino's Dixieland My Beat aired for a quarter-century on KUOP until his death in 1993 and was credited with popularizing the genre in the region. Enter Capital Public Radio Despite its popularity with listeners in Stockton, KUOP was a money-loser for the University of the Pacific. As early as 1973, budget cuts threatened the station's existence. In the mid-1990s, KUOP cut back on some of its local programming and began airing more national NPR fare. By 2000, however, KUOP, along with most of the university's auxiliary services, operated at a loss; the station recorded annual deficits sometimes exceeding $300,000 and had been subsidized by the UOP general fund for more than a decade. In August 1998, in an attempt to boost funding, KUOP radically changed its music format from classical to Americana and increased its talk output, a move that drew the ire of some listeners and did not bring in enough new fundraising dollars to offset the support that was lost. On May 30, 2000, KUOP and Capital Public Radio of Sacramento announced that the University of the Pacific would enter into an agreement for CPR to take over operations of the Stockton station. CPR slowly brought KUOP's schedule in line with its other stations, including eliminating bluegrass and folk music. When the University of the Pacific board put the license up for sale in 2005, CPR attempted to buy the station outright, holding off a rival bid from KQED; however, at that time, the university opted not to sell. Ultimately, CPR bought the license outright from the University of the Pacific for $4 million in 2007; the university continued to provide a campus studio facility for CPR's use. References External links UOP University of the Pacific (United States) NPR member stations 1947 establishments in California Radio stations established in 1947