The two rooms in the northwest corner of Wilson Hall just were n't meeting the productive professional environmental needs of educational radio broadcasts Mofield had first envisioned . Mofield and other faculty of Murray State recruited about a million dollars to build the Price Doyle Fine Arts Building , the new location for WKMS . In September 1971 the building was officially open for use . In its permanent home on the sixth floor ( in the late nineties the sixth floor became known as the eighth floor ) , WKMS was fully equipped with offices , soundproof studios , state-of-the-art RCA equipment , and a new stereo with FM capability . In the September 1972 WKMS affiliated itself with National Public Radio . NPR 's news programs set the standard for comprehensive and enlightening reporting . 91.3 was among the first public radio stations to affiliate with National Public Radio . When NPR was created , stations affiliated receive support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting , a nonprofit organization funded by the United States Congress . With finances from CPB , the station was able to upgrade its network interconnection : a high-quality telephone line . As NPR and WKMS converged , '' All Things Considered '' became the only daily newscast at the station and was an instant success . In 1973 , WKMS received its first underwriter for thirteen weeks from the Cleveland Orchestra . Businesses took a queue from the Orchestra and began participating in underwriting . 1973 was also a landmark year as the Watergate Hearings were in progress . WKMS provided the only radio source in western Kentucky for the hearings . WKMS has since provided a service for the region in equally important moments in United States history , such airing the hearings regarding the nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court of the United States , complete coverage of the Columbia Shuttle Disaster , complete coverage of the beginning of U.S. operations in Afghanistan , the Presidential impeachment proceedings of 1999 , complete coverage of the events following the September 11 attacks in 2001 , and complete coverage of the January 2009 Central Plains and Midwest ice storm that hit most of western Kentucky and the surrounding region
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