KNAU (88.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classical music and news/talk and information format. Licensed to Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, KNAU and its sister stations serve the northern Arizona area. The station is currently owned by Northern Arizona University (NAU) and features programming from National Public Radio, Public Radio International, and American Public Media, among other content providers. NAU also owns KPUB (91.7 FM), a station devoted to talk programming, and student-run low-power station KLJX-LP (107.1 FM). KNAU's programming is heard on KNAA (90.7 FM) in Show Low and on five translators in northern Arizona, as well as online. Broadcasting activity at NAU began with a carrier current AM station ran by students beginning in 1962. The FM station was approved in 1968 and began broadcasting in December 1970 as KAXR. It was a 10-watt station that aired some arts programming as well as rock music. In the early 1980s, the station transformed from a local outlet into a regional public radio station, which included a frequency change and power increase to 100,000 watts in 1983, expanded facilities and staff, affiliation with NPR, and the construction of new transmitters. History Foundation Carrier current broadcasting at NAU began with station KASC, built in 1962 and so named when the school was Arizona State College at Flagstaff. Soon after the Board of Regents’ approval to raise the school to university status as Northern Arizona University effective May 1, 1966, KASC began considering changing its call letters to KNAU in late 1964. The change did not take place until 1967, a year in which the student station was pranked by someone claiming to be an administrator dismissing campus early for Christmas; half of the students left campus before the situation was rectified. As early as 1966, the idea of an FM station that might provide wider service to the city of Flagstaff outside of campus was considered. On June 19, 1968, NAU filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a new 10-watt station at 88.5 MHz in Flagstaff. Approval was granted on September 11 of that year, but the station did not begin regular programming until December 16, 1970. KAXR ("K-Axer", referring to the university's Lumberjacks mascot) was the second FM station in Flagstaff and had a fine arts and classical music orientation, though it also played rock music. It complemented KNAU, which remained in service as a student