KVCR FM 91.9

The station (91.9 MHz) is an FM non-commercial public radio station located in San Bernardino, California, broadcasting to the Riverside-San Bernardino-Inland Empire area. It is owned by the San Bernardino Community College District, along with channel 24 The station. The station asks for donations from its listeners, especially during fundraisers, usually held for a week, several times per year. The station's radio format airs news/talk syndicated programming from National Public Radio, the Public Radio Exchange and American Public Media, branded as "NPR 91.9". The station's studios are located at the Media & Communications Building on the campus of San Bernardino Valley College on South Mt. Vernon Avenue in San Bernardino, and its transmitter is located atop Box Springs Mountain. The station first signed on on November 2, 1953. It was the first junior college-owned radio station. In 1962, it added a public TV station, The station 24, which affiliated with PBS. The station became a network affiliate of NPR in the spring of 1970. A year later, The station was among the 80 stations in the U.S., five of them in California, to air the first edition of All Things Considered. Prior to July 2005, The station was branded as Inland Public Radio airing a mix of news along with classical music syndicated from Classical 24 during midday hours, evenings and weekends. Over time, the classical music programming was dropped as news/talk programming proved to be a bigger draw during fundraisers. The station is the primary affiliate for National Public Radio, Public Radio International and American Public Media in the Riverside/San Bernardino market. Until the 2007 season, The station carried most of the games of the Inland Empire 66ers, a minor-league baseball team League. Few NPR stations air minor league baseball. In March 2013, when Talk of the Nation, which The station aired on tape-delay, was cancelled by NPR, The station made adjustments to its daytime schedule, adding a second hour of Here and Now at 10 am, and clearing Day to Day for broadcast in the afternoon. Fresh Air was moved to 3 pm, leading into All Things Considered.