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{{forShort description|Radio station in Nevada City, California}}
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{{Infobox radio station
| name = KVMR
| imagelogo = =
| city = [[Nevada City, California]]
| area = [[Sacramento, CA]]
| branding =
| slogan = "Music of the World, Voice of the Community". "If you did not turn us on, We would not be here" , ''Great DeaD by Dead Greats'', ''Community Home~Grown Radio''
| airdate =
| frequency = 89.5 [[MHz]] Analog & [[Digital radio|Digital]]
| translator = [[#Translators|See § Translators]]
| translator = K230CA 93.9 MHz [[Woodland, California|Woodland]]<br>K247BX 97.3 MHz [[Grass Valley, California|Grass Valley]]<br>K258DG 99.5 MHz [[Angels Camp, California|Angels Camp]]<br>K286AN 105.1 MHz [[Truckee, California|Truckee]]<br>K289BM 105.7 MHz [[Grass Valley, California|Grass Valley]]
| repeater = KCPC (88.3 MHz) [[Camino, California|Camino]]
| format = Community Radio, eclectic programming
| power =
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| haat = 345 meters
| class = B1
| facility_id = [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=48338 48338]
| coordinates = {{nowrap|{{coord|39|14|47.0|N|120|57|48.0|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KVMRlandmark}}}}
| callsign_meaning = '''V'''ictorianVictorian '''M'''useumMuseum '''R'''adioRadio
| former_callsigns =
| owner = Nevada City Community Broadcast Group
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| webcast = [http://www.kvmr.org/player/ Listen Live]
| website = [http://www.kvmr.org www.kvmr.org]
| affiliations = [[Pacifica Radio Network]]
| licensing_authority= [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
}}
 
'''KVMR''' (89.5 [[FM broadcast|FM]]) is a progressive, largely independentcommunity [[radio station]] founded in 1978 in [[Nevada City, California]] producing mainly live broadcasts. Arther Cohen was its first manager. The station motto : ''If you didn't turn us on ...... We wouldn't be here ''
 
After two years of planning by Sacramento visionary, Lee Amundsen, KVMR signed on the air on July 14, 1978. KVMR first operated under the umbrella of the Nevada City-based non-profit, The American Victorian Museum (AVM). Deriving its name from Victorian Museum Radio, KVMR first broadcast from a small shack on nearby Banner Mountain, at just 20 watts, four hours a day.
For the initial years, its one studio and office location were at the Miner's Foundry, then in 1996 it moved to larger leased premises nearby at 401 Spring Street.
On 24 February 2015 the offices, production facilities, and infrastructure moved across the street to its new purpose-built facilities at 120 Bridge Street for which funds have been raised from an extensive and still ongoing [[capital campaign]].
Several new off-air production studios have been added to improve the artistic and technical quality of broadcasts.
Increasing use is being made of the Internet for streaming and many shows are now both archived and [[podcast]] here: [http://audio.kvmr.org/podhawk] and elsewhere to leverage social media and ongoing advances in technology.
such as their [[Facebook]] group [https://www.facebook.com/KVMRFM]
 
In 1981, with the help of AVM Directors Charles Woods and David Osborn, Ruthe Hamm, Carol and David Fluke, KVMR found a home at the Museum, upgraded its power and began broadcasting 24 hours a day. Drawing from a rich pool of local talent, KVMR’s programming quickly began to incorporate live, in-studio performances. The popularity of these live broadcasts spurred a small crew of broadcasters to launch a regular live-broadcast performance series from the stage at the AVM.
The building itself backs onto the historic [[Nevada Theatre]] with which the station now has a cooperative venture called
[http://www.bridgestreetproject.org/ The Bridge Street Project]. The new modern building maintains the old gold mining feel of the [[historic district]] through the choice of materials and appearance preserving the atmosphere of the small-town mid 19th century [[gold rush]] community from which [[Nevada City, California]] grew.
 
By the mid- to late 1980s, KVMR’s nominal board formed an independent non-profit organization and purchased the station from the failing AVM. In 1989, ownership of the station was transferred to the Nevada City Community Broadcast Group (NCCBG), KVMR’s first Board of Directors. Since the mid 1990s, KVMR has matured to adopt a business structure supported with sound policies and prudent fiscal management.
Coverage: Analog and digital FM. See the right side panel. The station is the area's local Emergency Broadcast System.
The signal covers the central parts of the foothills of the [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra Nevada]] mountain range in [[Northern California]],
as well as central areas of the [[California Central Valley|Central Valley]] region around California's state capital,
[[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]].
 
An upgrade of the station’s broadcast facility in 1999 dramatically improved KVMR’s regional signal quality. Although studios and offices are located in Nevada City, the KVMR community is better defined by the wide range of its signal, which is broadcast from Banner Mountain from 3,861 feet above sea level resulting in a signal equivalent to 6,000 watts output at sea level. KVMR serves listeners throughout the Northern California Sierra foothills and the greater Sacramento Valley on 89.5 FM, Woodland at 93.9 FM, the Truckee/Tahoe region on 105.1 FM, Camino/Placerville at 88.3 FM and Angels Camp on 99.5 FM
The station principally serves its community of listeners with eclectic music genres.
A substantial number of programming slots are for public affairs programming, educational, scientific, and non-mainstream interviews, local and international news, and alternative points of view on topics of interest to listeners as seen in its online surveys and outreach.
Call-ins to most shows are possible on the studio line +1(530) 265 9555 and about a dozen shows a week are exclusively call-in, such as the Flea Market [http://fleamarket.kvmr.org] and Tech show Zen Tech [http://zen.kvmr.org]
Nationally syndicated ''[[Democracy Now!]]'' is currently at 7 p.m. weeknights.
 
KVMR is now available via live web stream anywhere in the world twenty-four hours a day at www.kvmr.org. KVMR’s unduplicated audience is 40,000, two thirds of who live outside of Nevada County. KVMR has become the official Emergency Broadcast station of Nevada County, with a live broadcaster in the studio 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The station has a small staff of 10 and a few contract staff, but the majority of the station operates with the generous time of volunteers, over 700 of them, of which 150 are broadcasters.
KVMR has over 250 volunteer broadcasters with wide-ranging tastes and expertise,
such as but not limited to Jima Abbott, Hap Hazard, Larry Hillberg, Jim "Winfield" Wilson, Connie Coale, Paul Emery, Skip Alan Smith, Eric Rice, Michael Keene, Allison Miller, Alan Stahler, Derek Washington, Anne O’Dea Hestbeck, Len Gorsky, Jimmi Accardi, poet [[Molly Fisk]], Dave & Linda Breninger, Jerianne Van Dijk, Brian Lee, and Mikail Graham.
U [[Utah Phillips]] formerly produced "Loafer's Glory" from this station before his passing in 2008.
 
In 2016, KVMR acquired a terrestrial signal at 105.7fm and developed KVMRx, which showcases the latest in dance, pop, folk, hip hop and experimental music, bringing in a new generation of broadcasters and listeners.
There is also a large cadre of event and office volunteers and a small staff.
Funding comes from listeners, underwriters, events, donations, and grants.
KVMR's radio shows are largely its own productions engineered by the many certified broadcaster themselves — relatively few shows are sourced outside the station, in contrast to most public radio stations.
 
==Translators==
Local and world nightly news, currently at 6 p.m., has been produced and aired for over 15 years.
In addition to simulcasting on KCPC (88.3 FM, [[Camino, California|Camino]]), KVMR is rebroadcast by several [[broadcast relay station]]s (translators):
The station itself officially produces and broadcasts the area's annual local Celtic Festival [http://www.kvmr.org/celticfestival/] and broadcasts for other producers some of the many live events in the area like [http://www.thecenterforthearts.org Center for the Arts] and the annual [http://www.worldfest.net California World Fest]
 
KVMR broadcasts more 'Live Show Events' around the community in Northern Calif. than just about any other community radio station in the country.
We ''Live Stream'' the shows like our own Celtic Music Festival, Strawberry Music Festival, Calif. Bluegrass Assoc's ~ Father's Day Bluegrass Festival, Live events from various venues like, Grass Valleys Fairgrounds Events, Music In the Mountains & Nevada County Fair, Center for the Art's, Worldfest, as well as Palms Public Playhouse, Winters, Ca., Sierra Nevada Brewery Company's - Big Room in Chico, [[High Sierra Music Festival]] in Quincy, American River Music Festival, Cool, Cal. and dozens of community city/ county 'hall' meetings as well as live DJ live show broadcasts from all over the semi local area.
 
==[[broadcast relay station|Satellite station]]==
 
{{RadioTranslators
| callsign = KVMR
| width =
 
| call1 = KCPC
| freq1call1 = 88.3 MHzK230CA
| fid1 freq1 = 12273593.9
| watts1city1 = 115Woodland, California
| haat1fid1 = 12083228
| class1watts1 = A10
| city1haat1 = Camino, California657
| class1 = D
| coord1 =
| notes1 =
 
| call2 = K247BX
| freq2 = 97.3
| city2 = Grass Valley, California
| fid2 = 156434
| watts2 = 10
| haat2 = 260
| class2 = D
| coord2 =
| notes2 =
 
| call3 = K258DG
| freq3 = 99.5
| city3 = Angels Camp, California
| fid3 = 156154
| watts3 = 10
| haat3 = 485
| class3 = D
| coord3 =
| notes3 =
 
| call4 = K278CA
| freq4 = 103.5
| city4 = El Dorado Hills, California
| fid4 = 144143
| watts4 = 5
| haat4 = 47
| class4 = D
| coord4 =
| notes4 =
 
| call5 = K286AN
| freq5 = 105.1
| city5 = Truckee, California
| fid5 = 156135
| watts5 = 10
| haat5 = 592
| class5 = D
| coord5 =
| notes5 =
 
| call6 = K289BM
| freq6 = 105.7
| city6 = Grass Valley, California
| fid6 = 147454
| watts6 = 250
| haat6 = 329
| class6 = D
| coord6 =
| notes6 =
}}
 
==See also==
*[[List of community radio stations in the United States]]
 
==References==
{{reflist}}
 
==External links==
*[http://www.kvmr.org/ Official Website]
*{{FM station data|48338|KVMR}}
*{{FCC letter|letterid=69811|hcards=yes|callsign=KVMR}}
*{{FMQ|K286AN}}
*{{FM station data|122735|KCPC}}
*[http://live2.artoflogic.com:8190/kvmr.m3u KVMR's Broadband Internet Stream]
*[http://live.kvmr.org:8000/dial.3mu KVMR's lower rate Internet Stream]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
 
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