Soul, RnB, Hip Hop, Gospel
KPRS is an Urban contemporary radio station that broadcasts on the 103.3 MHz frequency licensed to Kansas City. The station's playlist consists of hip-hop, R&B, and gospel music. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), it is the oldest continually African American family-owned radio station in the United States. The station is owned by Carter Broadcast Group, and its studios are located in South Kansas City, as well as its transmitter (located separately).
Andrew Skip Carter signed on the first African American owned radio station west of the Mississippi in Kansas City. What also makes it very special is the station has been owned by his family since it was founded in May of 1950. Andrew Skip Carter was born in 1919 and raised in Savannah Georgia. He built his first radio while still in high school and earned is first FCC license as a radio amateur.After studying physics at Georgia State for three years, he served in the U.S. Army from 1940 to 1945. Carter went on to RCA Institute for Electronics and then to New York University to earn his first class engineering license from the FCC in 1947. He worked as a radio engineer for WTIP in Charleston, West Virginia. When he tried to get an on-air spot, he couldn’t get one, because he wasn’t “Black” enough.
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