BYU Radio
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| Broadcast area | Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo, Utah |
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| Frequency | 89.1 MHz (HD Radio) Channel 2 |
| Branding | BYU Radio, Helping You See the Good in the World |
| Programming | |
| Format | Music/Talk from a Mormon Perspective |
| Affiliations | BYU Athletics |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Brigham Young University |
| History | |
First air date | August 1, 2002 |
Call sign meaning | Brigham Young University |
| Links | |
| Website | www.byuradio.org |
BYU Radio is a music and talk radio station run by Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Operating at 89.1 MHz HD-2, it is known on-air as BYU Radio. It serves those of both Mormon and non-Mormon faiths with values-based programming.
BYU Radio began as a web stream on August 1, 2002 with a format of music by LDS artists. In 2006, KBYU-FM Classical 89 began broadcasting an 'HD Radio' signal along with its main signal, and subsequently began rebroadcasting 'BYU Radio' service on its HD2 signal.
Prior to 2002, it had been known as 'Bonneville International LDS Radio Network', but Bonneville International gave the station to BYU and they have since added to what programming had been run previously by the older station.
In addition to the other ways BYU Radio is received, Bonneville International had managed to place the station on Dish Network, and it is on Channel 980, and is available to subscribers to the 'Top 120' or higher programming tier.
Presently the format is about evenly divided between music and talk programming. Programming includes campus devotionals live each Tuesday, the audio from some programs originally roduced for BYU Television and some occasional programs provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During the regular seasons of the football and basketball seasons, BYU Radio airs those games live, and since it is noncommercial, the commercials aired on the station the game broadcast originates from are overlaid by either PSAs, program announcements, or campus announcements of various kinds. They also air most baseball games and volleyball games as well.
On July 1, 2011, the station began broadcasting "in the clear" on the XM network of Sirius XM satellite radio.
The station can also be heard online at http://www.byuradio.org/ and the station has two additional Internet streams, one in Spanish and Portuguese, known as BYU Radio International, which was started in 2008, and BYU Radio Instrumental, which was started in 2003. Those two stations are only available through the station website.
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